Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all .
2 Husbandmen , as was to be expected with the most numerous class — and as the typical countrymen — comprehended a broad spectrum .
3 The ice and snow would disappear from the mountains , and as the new plants from the more temperate regions of the south migrated northwards , replacing the arctic plants , these latter would crawl up the now uncovered mountains , and likewise be driven northward to the present arctic shores .
4 Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on .
5 A stool was brought out , and as the last echoes of twelve faded in the warm night air a dark-haired young man with flashing black eyes came and stood alone in the dim light .
6 Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women .
7 Two of the old Bunch ( Burroughs and Sperry ) merged into Unisys ; Digital Equipment ( DEC ) and Hewlett-Packard provided increasingly severe competition in the minicomputer range and as the main beneficiaries of ‘ down-sizing ’ ( in effect producing mainframe-level computer power on a much smaller and cheaper machine ) .
8 Bill accompanied his wife , and as the red lights of the ambulance faded down the street , Tom emerged from the study at last .
9 To rest properly it is necessary to get your weight onto your heel and off the front points .
10 The drive to Kent had been a difficult , slow journey hampered by the volume of tourists who poured on and off the cross-Channel ferries .
11 There can be a really heavy feeling sometimes between local surfers and visitors and between the real surfers and the boogie boarders .
12 Just as the blood is circulated through our physical body , so energy flows through and between the subtle bodies .
13 In this chapter , I want to distinguish carefully between marketing ( as a whole ) and advertising , and between the various types of statement of intent .
14 The political tension , both between the king and heir and between the political groupings , rose rapidly .
15 Behind the bodywork and between the rear springs was a large ash frame placed on the chassis .
16 The pattern of sequence conservation within the marsupials and between the two classes of mammals is the same as that previously noted in eutherians : average levels of conservation in the region encoding the HMG box and little or no conservation outside the box .
17 The extent of cell death varied between embryos and between the two sides of the neural tube in individual embryos .
18 There was seating accommodation for 15 first-class passengers at one end , and 21 third-class passengers at the other ; and between the two compartments was the kitchen and pantry , cooking by gas .
19 A wedge was to be driven between the political parties and the UDA and between the rural paramilitaries and the UDA .
20 Research reviews have also been carried out of existing knowledge about inequalities between men and women and between the ethnic groups in the UK in respect of both health and health care .
21 12.1 Except to the extent that liability may by statute not lawfully be excluded in an Agreement of this nature and between the respective Parties hereto , any statement , condition or warranty , expressed or implied , statutory or otherwise , as to the quality , marketability , suitability or fitness for any particular purpose of the Licensed Software is hereby excluded and shall not be liable to or to any other persons for loss or damage , whether direct or consequential , arising directly or indirectly from the use of the Licensed Software or any modification or enhancement thereof and any documentation , manual or training relating thereto .
22 However it should be noted that for audit purposes staff will be moved on a regular basis both within each section and between the 2 sections .
23 This unchangeability was particularly puzzling for Marx since the basis of his writing on pre-capitalist society was , as we have seen , the contradiction between communal and private property and between the social systems these implies .
24 So if we can hurt them or certainly gang together if you like , cos unity is strength , and between the three workforces they 'll certainly slow down production and hopefully force things .
25 Arterial blood gas measurements were compared in the two treatment groups with unpaired t-tests on differences , and between the three centres using analysis of variance .
26 It will use data from the Scottish Young People 's Surveys of 1985 , 1987 and 1989 to make comparisons between TVEI and non-TVEI pupils in TVEI schools , between TVEI schools and all other schools in Scotland , and between the same schools at different times before and after the introduction of TVEI .
27 We have a lot to do in communications among ourselves and between the different disciplines and different complementary approaches .
28 If you live in Oxford , in the City area of Oxford , you have a far higher chance of getting a home help , getting a place in an elderly person 's home , getting a meals on wheels , than anywhere else in the county , and between the different areas of the county there are vast differences in that .
29 Clearly distinguish between primary and secondary sources , and between the different types of history books .
30 And about every five minutes she says ‘ There 's six cars down there ’ .
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