Example sentences of "and [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , the aircraft had not been adequately lashed down on the low loader and as the lorry moved forward the Firefly rolled off its trestles on to the bed of the lorry damaging the undersides of the aircraft in the process , the aircraft was then reloaded and secured and thankfully the reset of the trip to Duxford was uneventful . |
| 2 | And so the equivalent for you who is doing the |
| 3 | And so the 13th of August found me waving farewell to my friends and relations at King George V Dock , London . |
| 4 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 5 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 6 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 7 | Makassar Oil ( a particularly noxious distillation from coconuts ) was a popular hair cosmetic for Victorian men , and perhaps the greasiest of " greasy kids ' stuff " ever to have caught on . |
| 8 | ‘ George Foreman is the big fight for Lennox right now and the second defence could be against American Tommy Morrison — and perhaps the third against Frank Bruno in 1994 . ’ |
| 9 | And perhaps the best-known of them all ; the apparently harmless street musician who came to a little township called Hamelin , and agreed to rid the town of rats by means of his music … |
| 10 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 11 | If it is partitioned in the form unc where Y is of order ( n × p ) and unc square , of order p , ( 2 ) gives unc and only the first of these equations concerns us . |
| 12 | Makes you remember all men were hunters once and only the fittest of them survived . |
| 13 | Then Furlong was just wide with a shot-on-the-turn from 12 yards and Coventry 's supporters were justified in expecting their first win in five games — and only the third of Don Howe 's reign . |
| 14 | Beck 's first tournament win since 1990 — and only the fourth of his career — was achieved in the hardest of circumstances . |
| 15 | This is very much the hybrid sound of Africa , and all the better for it . |
| 16 | When they are dead and gone , we shall still be British , and all the better for it . |
| 17 | ‘ Broken ’ is a mini-album , recorded without the permission of the American record company , a much harder , uglier affair than the debut album , ‘ Pretty Hate Machine ’ , and all the better for it . |
| 18 | For the most part , however , this is Nielsen straight and unadorned , and all the better for so being . |
| 19 | After that they had decided to get across the other side and ‘ maybe give the girls a fright ’ , an entirely mad idea that could only end in tears , and all the better for it . |
| 20 | It 's a good story and all the better for being more or less true . |
| 21 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 22 | But why should not one dying too soon for her years and too late by far for her comfort take pleasure in the sudden visitation of youth and freshness and beauty , however flawed , and all the more for its vulnerability and helplessness in a world none too kind to the weak . |
| 23 | Dentdale is a typical sixteenth-century English countryside , peaceful , undisturbed and all the sweeter for its absence of fast roads and speeding motorists . |
| 24 | The recessed set then forms the 19.45 to Machynlleth and apparently the 20.50 to Pwllheli . |
| 25 | The airline we 've got to sponsor the exchange is agreeable to the deal including Nicky and the other jock 's wife or girlfriend , and obviously the two of you will be expected to take every opportunity to rave on air about what a wonderful flight you had , how royally you were treated and all the rest of it . |
| 26 | A moment later , amid great surges of laughter , Kāli wound her mother 's necklace of silver coins three times round her slender ankle , pulled her young cousin to her feet , and together the two of them began to dance . |
| 27 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 28 | His book Twilight over England , cites the case of a Jewish student who burst into tears when he discovered that he was only the second best and not the best in the list of those who had passed their medical exams . |
| 29 | I was very shy and not the sharpest of children . |
| 30 | It was a disgraceful decision and not the first of the night . |