Example sentences of "and [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks , initially , to Winckelmann , Greece and thereby the whole ancient world took on a new fascination which resulted in a new kind of scholar with a new kind of scholarly aim : the reconstruction of antiquity in all its real detail . |
| 2 | A further point to note is that the extreme left-hand columns in both table 6.4 and table 6.5 are empty and additionally the extreme right-hand column in table 6.5 is empty ; this is because these ‘ extreme ’ realizations occur only in the inner-city areas . |
| 3 | The programme was presented to the Heads of Government at a summit meeting in Milan in June 1985 and eventually the Single European Act came into force in July 1987 . |
| 4 | I say that to show that the payments are ludicrously inadequate — £6 last year , £6 this year and presumably the same next year . |
| 5 | He also operated a small fleet of ships , issued the largest and arguably the finest British token coinage , purchased the two-member pocket borough of Great Marlow , for which he was MP from 1790 , and built there Temple House , designed by Samuel Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | He rounded a sharp bend , and suddenly the deep blue Mediterranean lay there , a secluded cove with an outcrop of dark rocks , and a semi-circular sandy bay . |
| 7 | ‘ My headache just grew and grew and suddenly the light faded and I could not see a thing . |
| 8 | The successful parties included the Popular Movement for the Revolution ( Mouvement populaire de la révolution — MPR ) , led by President Mobutu Sese Seko and hitherto the sole legal party ; the Union for Democracy and Social Progress ( Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social — UDPS ) led by Etienne Tshisekedi wa Malumba ; a party led by Nguza Karl I Bond ( who had been Foreign Affairs Minister until May 1990 — see p. 37446 ) ; and an African Socialist Party . |
| 9 | And so the first full-time students began class in May , 1977 at the Guitar Institute of Technology ( G.I.T. ) in Hollywood . |
| 10 | Instead of having another bridesmaid , have a page boy and so the two little ones go up together page boy |
| 11 | And so the 29th National Championship Air Races at Reno were started . |
| 12 | In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one . |
| 13 | Er bearing in mind they 've also got eight thousand pounds of earnings and so the eight thousand pounds of earnings they 've got to use that up er savings , sorry , savings not earnings er before they can actually get means tested erm and there 's a s a sliding scale between three thousand and there . |
| 14 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 15 | This may prove difficult when your opponent is an élite performer and so the only practical advice I can offer is to appear in lots of competitions , so you become a known face to many national referees . |
| 16 | The standard molar enthalpy of formation of an element is zero and so the standard molar enthalpy of formation of oxygen need not be included in the above expression . |
| 17 | Hachani asserted in a radio interview on Nov. 20 that " if the situation remains as it is " the FIS would " exert every available means , within the framework of the law , so that there will be no elections and so the whole Algerian people boycott these elections " . |
| 18 | — and yet , when this is recognized , the terror still appears again , in a new and dreadful form ; and the memory must be brought to ‘ the touch of Jesus ’ and so the whole inner man is cleansed . |
| 19 | Traditionally , local government provided services for property owners — paved streets , lighting , water , sewerage and police — and so the main local government tax has always been a rate levied on property values . |
| 20 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 21 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |
| 22 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 23 | And perhaps the only surprising thing about that result is that , is that seven people have said no ! |
| 24 | It is the only continuous book he ever wrote after 1945 — the rest is all essays and articles — and perhaps the only entire book by any British-born critic of the age to work moral and literary concerns into a single exercise of radical intellect , as indifferent to tact as to fashion and concerned only with truth itself . |
| 25 | A reasonable , and perhaps the only plausible , response would be to say that to understand an utterance is to decode or calculate all that might reasonably have been meant by the speaker of the utterance ( cf. |
| 26 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |
| 27 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 28 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't go out like that , ’ said Wendy to Apricot when she was four , ‘ it 's freezing , ’ and little Apricot , in nothing but vest and pants , ran straight out into the street and down the long suburban road to the small playground which a benign council had made for the children in the sharp triangle of land where the railway line intersected the water-purifying plant . |
| 30 | It was fascinating to watch the great rolls of white newsprint turn as the thin sheets moved into the press , round inky lead plates , through rollers and down the V-shaped folding machine , to be cut into proper size , folded , stacked sideways and passed into waiting hands . |