Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He was a rugged but skilful wing-half , first for Oxford City where he had his roots , and latterly for Corinthian Casuals , a club embodying the Corinthian spirit he did so much to preserve . |
2 | Far from being the case , that scheme is vital for freight traffic and the King 's Cross delevopment links intimately and properly into that scheme . |
3 | At about 4.55 they came quietly and nervously from each community — right up to where the inspector and I stood . |
4 | So er as I say we do accept this but we have to er be careful just how much we undertake , and mercifully on this case there is no time limit , a and also I think we have the assurance from the board of world mission and unity , that they and any others who are , have something to offer , will help us . |
5 | The word ‘ obey ’ settles unpleasantly and suspiciously on twentieth century ears , but Paul means by it what it says . |
6 | In fact , companies which train properly and successfully over several years bitterly resent other companies which do not indulge in training taking their workers . |
7 | By now , though , the Japanese were getting wary of ambush , and following their usual high standard of training they had sentries hidden in the bushes rather than marching to and fro as ready bait for a commando knife . |
8 | Officials in their variety of blue uniforms hurried to and fro on urgent business . |
9 | During the trudging to and fro along echoing subways and draughty platforms that this necessitated , Harry began to notice , for all his preoccupation , that a man who had boarded the train with him at Brockenhurst was making the same complicated series of connections . |
10 | So a lot of sort of tracking to and fro between one end of the office , hoping that the two groups would n't meet . |
11 | Several inherited the throne in childhood , even in early infancy — ‘ Woe to the kingdom whose king is a child ’ — and were oppressed or imprisoned by their regents and guardians , kidnapped by the English , or bandied to and fro between powerful nobles . |
12 | ‘ I must have gone to and fro in great concentration of spirit , always anxious to get on . ’ |
13 | It is a very strange experience , walking the corridors of a large company , to hear loud blasts of phasers and the firing of photon torpedoes echoing to and fro from various offices . |
14 | The image used by Spitzer of the " philological circle " , the circle of understanding , is more appropriate Spitzer argued that the task of linguistic-literary explanation proceeded by the movement to and fro from linguistic details to the literary " centre " of a work or a writer 's art . |
15 | As now , the decision who will proceed to A level , and thence to higher education will in effect have been taken at the end of the third year . |
16 | After this digression , we return to the falsificationist conception of the progress of science as the progression from problems to speculative hypotheses , to their criticism and eventual falsification and thence to new problems . |
17 | From there it spread through Asia Minor to Greece and Rome , and thence to northern Europe and North America . |
18 | A Constitution introduced by the King in 1962 embodied a multi-tiered system of panchayat ( council ) democracy , under which there are elected councils at village level which in turn elect members to district councils and thence to zonal councils . |
19 | By nature I mean , first , the principle of survival which drives us to continue living and necessarily entails the ingestion of food ; and , second , the principle of growth which transforms us from childhood to maturity and thence to old age . |
20 | An alternative southerly route was established from Malta to Kano in Nigeria , and thence across Central Africa south of the unstable Congo to Nairobi in Kenya . |
21 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
22 | The next stage I understand Chair , is that a report on the consultation process and what 's come out of it will be , will be brought in er , in the first instance , to the J C C and the community care advisory committee , and , and thence with substantive recommendations to this Committee , and to the health authority etcetera , in relation to the substance of the report . |
23 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
24 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |
25 | passing the bill over to the welfare authorities , and thereby to other taxpayers , is not acceptable , either in terms of the escalating size of the bill , or , more importantly , from the point of view of individuals learning about how to behave responsibly , and the long-term financial responsibilities that flow from adult behaviour . |
26 | The Thatcher government in particular , throughout its terms of office , repeatedly committed itself to cutting the burden of taxation , and thereby to increasing incentives and encouraging enterprise and initiative . |
27 | ‘ The Counterforce ’ — the title of this section — becomes a shorthand way of denoting textual disruption and thereby of distinguishing Pynchon 's activities from the tainted notions of synthesis and control . |
28 | This community occurs in pastures on better-drained and base-poor soils in north-west Britain and mostly at low altitudes . |
29 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
30 | Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) . |