Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
| 2 | And now the rains had really come , so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene . |
| 3 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
| 4 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 5 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
| 6 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |
| 7 | And black and black and then the denim shirt . |
| 8 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
| 9 | Once the only landfall for Britons bound for the Continent and far and away the best route today . |
| 10 | Now , the brand is the third largest in the country and far and away the biggest selling stout . |
| 11 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 12 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
| 13 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 14 | The chorus sound is sweet and clean and even the analogue distortion and overdrive , while sounding very much on the processed side , are very responsive to programming . |
| 15 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |
| 16 | Mr Justice Sheil said it was sad and regrettable that both the poppy and shamrock , which were worn by both traditions with pride throughout the world and by many in Northern Ireland , were capable of being used in the prison as a means of provocation to other prisoners . |
| 17 | In both their life-style and their religious teachings , the Essenes were more rigorous and austere than either the Sadducees or the Pharisees . |