Example sentences of "and again [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | held several commands in the parliamentary navy in the period 1646–52 and again during the second Dutch war . |
| 2 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 3 | These damned black marketeers are everywhere ; they siphon the stuff off as soon as it comes into the country , at the various stores and again at the local distribution points . |
| 4 | I looked back again and again at the silent pair under the tree . |
| 5 | She is there at a general , collective level ; she may also reveal herself as a polarized force ; and again as the inner light of the individual . |
| 6 | What took place around the time of the lunar eclipse in Aquarius on August 6th and again on the 18th , when both Venus and Jupiter were eclipsed by the Moon in your opposite sign of Leo , seems to have upset the applecart . |
| 7 | On January 12th , however , and again on the 14th , Doctor Jekyll refused to see visitors . |
| 8 | However , to someone facing the weak poverty trap , and again with the illustrative numbers above , this is worth only 30 per cent of £40 , i.e. £12 , because the explicit tax rate applies only to the net-of-transfer income ; i.e. . |
| 9 | The first solution is mutual confession of sin and wrong feelings , and this may have to happen again and again with the same people . |
| 10 | I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away . |
| 11 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 12 | Next to the incessant bombardment , the stink of putrefaction and the utter desolation of the battlefield , Verdun combatants testify again and again to the terrifying isolation , seldom experienced to the same degree in other sectors . |
| 13 | The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen . |
| 14 | Daffodil , however , had fastened hers to her cleavage , the red , white and gold popping out now and again past the long-haired chinchillas . |
| 15 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 16 | Without an awareness of this it becomes very difficult to explain such phenomena as , for instance , the rise of ‘ independent ’ record companies in the 1940s and 1950s , and again in the 1970s ; the ‘ war ’ between the American Society of Composers , Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) and Broadcast Music Incorporated ( BMI ) in the 1940s ; the jaundiced reception by Tin Pan Alley of syncopated dance music and , later , of rock 'n' roll ; music-political struggles within the BBC ; the often stylistically heterogeneous content of the hit parades ; numerous policy arguments between musicians and their record companies ; and so on . |
| 17 | The pattern was repeated again and again in the following decades , thereby creating an atmosphere of confrontation which encouraged a few incorrigible spirits to make a lifelong commitment to war against authority . |
| 18 | That is why time and again in the New Testament he is linked with hope . |
| 19 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 20 | The public perceived enormous Conservative stress on defence in the Pre-Campaign Wave and again in the latter half of the campaign , but much less in the first half of the campaign . |
| 21 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |
| 22 | During the year they had been together , she had seen him time and again in the dark quiet hours when he believed himself to be unobserved . |
| 23 | Voters were asked in 1987 and again in the post-election survey who they thought would ‘ make the best Prime Minister ’ . |
| 24 | The spontaneity , excitement and vigour which had attended pop music 's greatest flowerings — in the mid-Fifties and again in the mid-Sixties — had , once again , evaporated ; the market-place was now the sole arbiter of style . |
| 25 | Despite an expansion in access to education in the 1970s and reforms carried out in the 1960s and again in the late 1970s , the fundamental patterns of inequality have remained and have been accentuated by the war . |
| 26 | As noted in annual reports in the late forties and again in the early fifties , the main problems in the development of WEA provision lay in the urban areas — a reversal of pre-war conditions when accessibility of rural areas was difficult and prevented significant growth until the appointment of resident tutors . |
| 27 | In Europe the profit share fell in the early sixties and again in the early seventies . |
| 28 | The demand for ‘ ordinary ’ books fluctuated throughout the day , reaching peaks shortly after the Library opened , and , on weekdays , just before lunchtime , and again in the early afternoon . |
| 29 | Again and again in the fifth and fourth centuries the other Greek states tried to get a hold on Thessaly . |
| 30 | I stood and watched them for a while , training my binoculars on them and seeming , now and again in the shifting images of light , to discern structures around them . |