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

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1 The sample C is attached firmly at each end to a strain gauge ; one of these is a force transducer measuring the applied sinusoidal force and the other records the sample deformation .
2 One of them goes round putting the chimneys on and the other checks the flue .
3 Although the French now controlled Saigon and the other towns the rural areas were largely in Viet Minh hands .
4 Perhaps the Masai have taboos against fellatio and the other things the French , with their gastronomic traditions , favour in the sexual realm .
5 In the 1970s Soviet promotion of the notion of collective security among Asian states was intended inter alia as a means to undermine SEATO , CENTO , ANZUS and the bilateral pacts the United States had concluded with South Korea , the Philippines and Japan .
6 Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion .
7 But it is clear that , for objective structural reasons , it was , during a certain long historical period , easier for the bourgeoisie to make meaningful use of the second , and the working classes the first , than vice versa .
8 The large arrows indicate the positions protected by cAMP-CRP from attack by the hydroxyl radicals and the small arrows the positions protected by CytR .
9 In 1984 the Lords objected to Conservative proposals to abandon elections for the GLC and the metropolitan counties the Government intended to abolish .
10 Having done that we then talked about the problem that we all have on these sorts of occasions which is the problem of nerves and we talked about the symptoms of dry voice and the shaking limbs the the wonky voice and the reasons why we have er these nerves and we also talked about the causes of the the primitive instinct of fight or flight er how we get get our body ready to handle this unusual situation .
11 With the evolution of multicellular organisms , both the range of possible behaviours and the organizational problems the organism has to solve increase .
12 In similar circumstances in previous elections the dissatisfied Tories would have given the Liberals and the Social Democrats the benefit of their protest .
13 One might surmise that Dame Sirith was written to create and fill a brief space of moral relaxation for an audience who knew well both the moral and the social conventions the tale plays with .
14 But here we have a situation where proxy votes from the manager of Woolworths and the local Boots the Chemist , have steamrollered through this motion . ’
15 Both for the nocturnal owls and the diurnal raptors the sample of predator species has been designed to encompass as wide a range as possible for body weight and pellet size .
16 The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them .
17 But alike in the British and the American traditions the expectation that the poet would have a message was so ingrained that even by those readers most alert to and informed about Eliot 's French connections The Waste Land was still thought to deliver an urgent signal — usually about the bankruptcy of the European , or the Western , cultural and civic traditions .
18 They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation .
19 After one and a half minutes the aircraft began to overshoot , correctly making an initial turn to the west .
20 After three and a half hours the stragglers were still coming through .
21 Driving-time : one and a half hours the first time , two hours the second .
22 If people cared to read that record , they would know that for two and a half hours the Liberal Democrats proved beyond —
23 And at Watercombe on 5 May the River Yealm was found to have two and a half times the permitted level of aluminium .
24 Remember that accountants and business executives have two and a half times the average death rate from alcohol-related diseases ( doctors , incidentally , have three times the rate ) .
25 Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary .
26 By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier .
27 In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file .
28 artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced .
29 This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics .
30 It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric .
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