Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world has changed radically since the admission of individuals such as Marx and vastly in the 40 years since the 1951 convention was drawn up . |
| 2 | Top left : Pattern drawing of ranking worn on the transverse shoulder straps attached to the 1895 ‘ sack coat ’ , and 1898 four-pocket blouse , and latterly on the blue shirt . |
| 3 | The Wenlock/Niagaran limestones spread gently and widely on the shallow shelves . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that the proposals for the expansion and development of the Dalzell works have been pursued for many years more consistently and vigorously by the Labour party than by any other party ? |
| 5 | Rather it was one more step in the step by step approach to the reform of both local government and the politics and values of British society , which has been followed through consistently and vigorously throughout the 1980s . |
| 6 | I remember black faced miners and not so black faced shipyard workers passing to and fro to the nearby yards or the ‘ G ’ pit at the end of the street . |
| 7 | Very occasionally , on our walks , Grandma would tell me things about Wales : about the great cart-horses who died of heart trouble from toiling to and fro up the steep cliff road all their lives ; and how , as a child , she had walked to church along the sands . |
| 8 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 9 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 10 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 11 | Shortly after the English army 's murderous assault on Berwick , in 1296 , Bothwell fell into English hands and for the remainder of the Wars of Independence the castle passed to and fro between the opposing forces . |
| 12 | He swivelled to and fro in the padded chair . |
| 13 | The reading knob must be slid to and fro from the far ends of the slot . |
| 14 | The resultant economics was to lead directly to the Renaissance , and thence to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 15 | The L3 then passes in the bloodstream to the lungs and thence to the small intestine via the trachea . |
| 16 | The L1 break into the alveoli , migrate to the trachea and thence to the alimentary tract to be passed in the faeces . |
| 17 | The Withington mosaic is considered an elaborate version of this format ( datable to c. 290 ) leading to the Barton mosaic ( with its numismatic evidence ) of c. 300 , and thence to the other pavements in the group . |
| 18 | Zeki Validov , one of the most famous Bashkir military leaders , fled to the Urals — to the shock of Moscow — and thence to the armed revolt of the Basmachi in eastern Turkestan . |
| 19 | This necessitated special arrangements with the train traversing the Plas Crug ground frame to the run round loop and thence to the old Platform 3 . |
| 20 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
| 21 | There is an implied progression from the inanimate world of " alphabet " and " language " in ( 3 ) to the ambivalently human " figures " in ( 9 ) , and thence to the quick and the dead " ( 12 ) who are clearly human , but poised on the uncertain ground between reality and unreality . |
| 22 | Both are seen as emerging out of a human ‘ need ’ to associate with other humans , which in turn leads to increased production , further increased needs and thence to the social division of labour . |
| 23 | There are too many loopholes allowing poached ivory to be " laundered " into the legal trade and thence onto the open market . |
| 24 | Second , it actually overrides the differences between animate and inanimate , and thereby between the personal and impersonal , by perpetuating the myth of the universe as one big ‘ thing ’ , usually thought of in personal terms — as in the idea of ‘ mother earth ’ . |
| 25 | This research project aims to carry out the first national random sample of Conservative party members in order to explore some of the most important questions concerning their role and importance both within the Conservative party itself and additionally within the wider political system . |
| 26 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 27 | Captain Cook discovered New South Wales in 1770 and in that same year , hack in Britain , Lord North became Prime Minister but strong opposition by Colonialists in America to the imposition of tea-tax , developed in 1773 , which led to the Boston Harbour incident in the following year , and eventually to the American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1782 . |
| 28 | This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds . |
| 29 | Well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the Ministry of Defence before our Secretary of State agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for Eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in December ninety two , so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 30 | The existing asylum procedures were clearly inadequate to deal fairly and effectively with the current level of asylum-seekers . |