Example sentences of "and the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in Malaya the last of the Communist terrorist gangs were being driven to their destruction in the jungles of north Malaya and south Johore by British military pressure and the financially inspired defections of many of their leaders . |
| 2 | ( Frottole were performed in France. ) 26 They inherited the syllabic note-against-note style , dominated by the text and with a good many repeat notes , lightly relieved by melismas or imitation , and the clearly marked cadences . |
| 3 | The accents are entirely convincing and the authentically Southern atmosphere implies an ever-present threat from white oppressors lying in wait beyond the cosiness of the backyard palisade . |
| 4 | In fact , their campaign and the probably well-founded suspicion that the result had been rigged had the opposite effect . |
| 5 | Table 1.12 gives examples of kinds of task and the probably appropriate method of task analysis for each cell in Table 1.11 . |
| 6 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 7 | Others , which display the higher growth rates of the Pacific countries , the greater per capita incomes of their peoples , and the steadily increasing volumes of iron ore , oil and containerized trade crossing the Pacific , are powerful indicators of an undeniable trend . |
| 8 | He found their steady , rhythmic progress an aid to concentration and the oddly oblique views of the world they offered — weed-choked farmland at the feet of embankments , gnome-dotted gardens on the edges of towns — ran somehow parallel with his own . |
| 9 | The threatened wetlands of south Wales and the internationally important heathlands of the east Devon commons , are all striking but valuable habitats , just awaiting the protection of the ‘ green tourist ’ . |
| 10 | The hotel is owned by Vingresor , the Swedish tour company who are part of Scandinavian Airlines , and the internationally high standards reflect it . |
| 11 | While physicians advised sparing use of the ointment , the quacks prescribed it liberally to great effect and had usually passed on to the next town before the inevitable relapses and the not infrequent deaths — results of over-treatment — had occurred . |
| 12 | Well I want to talk much more about what I think are the unconscious and the not deliberate sources of bias . |
| 13 | The remarkable quality of the New Hall collection , a voluntary assembly of donated works , and the likewise extraordinary disproportion of successful women artists in the final selection of the New Contemporaries this year seem to me to point to a crucial shift that is happening in symbolic utterance and representation : women 's bodies , women 's nature have long been ‘ good to think with ’ , their flesh has served artists as founts of meaning , allegorical and personal . |
| 14 | Good examples are The Parables of Our Lord ( 1847 ) and The Miracles of Our Lord ( 1848 ) , both illustrated by Noel Humphreys , and the particularly fine Record of the Black Prince ( 1849 ) , with its 6mm-thick carved covers , pierced to show a regal red lining beneath . |
| 15 | And the already intolerable misery of the attackers was now exacerbated by the Germans ' increased use of mustard gas . |
| 16 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 17 | Moreover , given the open-ended nature of this phrase and the already existing divergence of opinion among the national courts as to how those words are to be interpreted , this would seem to be a classic situation for the UK courts to give effect to Community law by interpretation of the national law so as to achieve congruence between the national and the Community norms . |
| 18 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 19 | And the barely legible postmark removed the last shred of doubt about who had sent it . |
| 20 | Only by emphasizing the sanctity of domestic life and the ultimately spiritual nature of the marriage union would national morality be re-made in the image of the Maker . |
| 21 | By the time the British , the Americans , and the ultimately successful Rifs from North Africa had made their assaults , the monastery was almost completely destroyed for the third time in history . |
| 22 | Rival views of the revolution became an important part of the struggle over power and policy between the ‘ Left Opposition ’ identified with Trotsky , the ‘ Right Opposition ’ identified with Bukharin , and the ultimately victorious line identified with Stalin . |
| 23 | The new Kappa-float glazing on all the windows , and the exceptionally high quality of insulation , earned the lodges the coveted MEDALLION AWARD for energy saving efficiency . |
| 24 | The main hazards were wandering , overloaded trucks and the similarly erratic movements of youngsters learning to drive , not in cars but on tractors complete with driving school insignia . |
| 25 | In Scandinavia the root used to be eaten as bread , and the strongly flavoured seeds had all sorts of applications especially to alcoholic drinks . |
| 26 | Whisky , gin and the illegally distilled poteen were the popular drinks . |
| 27 | The spectacular aerial shots , Prof Burland 's lightly worn erudition , the delicious dollops of Verdi and Rossini and the ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek commentary added up to a ‘ Carry on Leaning ’ that I felt obliged to watch all over again . |
| 28 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |
| 29 | Edmunds was thirtyish , bearded , slim , and earnest ; one of the modern breed of technical scientists who believe that the ultimate secret of life , the universe and all that , must be reducible to the predictable antics of their molecules and atoms and the infuriatingly ambiguous particles which seem to compose them . |
| 30 | He ignored the mottled marble floor , the neo-Doric pillars and the intricately carved oak ceiling . |