Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Far from being the case , that scheme is vital for freight traffic and the King 's Cross delevopment links intimately and properly into that scheme .
2 At about 4.55 they came quietly and nervously from each community — right up to where the inspector and I stood .
3 So er as I say we do accept this but we have to er be careful just how much we undertake , and mercifully on this case there is no time limit , a and also I think we have the assurance from the board of world mission and unity , that they and any others who are , have something to offer , will help us .
4 The word ‘ obey ’ settles unpleasantly and suspiciously on twentieth century ears , but Paul means by it what it says .
5 By now , though , the Japanese were getting wary of ambush , and following their usual high standard of training they had sentries hidden in the bushes rather than marching to and fro as ready bait for a commando knife .
6 Officials in their variety of blue uniforms hurried to and fro on urgent business .
7 So a lot of sort of tracking to and fro between one end of the office , hoping that the two groups would n't meet .
8 ‘ I must have gone to and fro in great concentration of spirit , always anxious to get on . ’
9 As now , the decision who will proceed to A level , and thence to higher education will in effect have been taken at the end of the third year .
10 By nature I mean , first , the principle of survival which drives us to continue living and necessarily entails the ingestion of food ; and , second , the principle of growth which transforms us from childhood to maturity and thence to old age .
11 Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party .
12 ‘ The Counterforce ’ — the title of this section — becomes a shorthand way of denoting textual disruption and thereby of distinguishing Pynchon 's activities from the tainted notions of synthesis and control .
13 Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) .
14 You dip down the drive from the Yoxford to Peasenhall road across an ornamental bridge and on towards this plain and golden Greek Revival house .
15 They would go on and on at great speed .
16 They went through it and on into another room where there was more daylight .
17 I climbed through the Megger Stones and on to Great Coum looking down Dentdale and Deepdale .
18 His passengers were all shaken and some were thrown from their seats and on to each other . ’
19 Not only is there a great depth to the pressure for change , but it also exists on an enormously wide number of fronts — from the National Curriculum through assessment and on to open enrolment and the local management of schools and ( for some ) beyond that to grant maintained status or other ‘ exotics ’ .
20 That means that if they only take the score card then you 're in there fairly quickly do the advertising sales and come out and on to another site .
21 As parenting involves many quite complex skills , it is not surprising that most mothers and fathers experience occasional difficulties in transforming helpless , unsocialized infants into sensible children and teenagers , and eventually into reasonable adult members of the community .
22 This has meant that we can hand down information and accumulated experience from generation to generation , in spoken and eventually in written form .
23 Oceanic lithosphere , however , is young and effectively of uniform age relative to continental lithosphere .
24 Postoperative bile leakage and benign bile duct stricturing after open cholecystectomy can be diagnosed safely and effectively with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP ) .
25 Henry remained overall policy-maker but it looks as though Eleanor had been left to supervise the day-to-day running of her duchy and effectively in sole charge of her second son .
26 In short , can government be limited legally and effectively by any method short of force ?
27 It was not without significance to the WEA ( and presumably of similar importance to the Cambridge Board and its secretary , G. F. Hickson ) that the Eastern District already had thirteen of its twenty-five Tutorial Classes in that county : several reflecting the combined efforts of Miss Green and Helen Stocks .
28 As more energy is put in at each dilution stage , the water polymer chains become longer and longer , and presumably at some stage break , forming a number of shorter lengths of water polymer .
29 And publisly , publicly and forcibly on that day , which is a date we should be celebrating the forty fifth anniversary of our National Health Service , instead we will have to demonstrate to save our National Health Service .
30 Key technical issues are : whether the operational systems such as payroll can be developed quickly , despite application backlogs , and changed easily as requirements inevitably change ; whether personal computing software is available to set up your Personnel Information System quickly and flexibly without direct recourse to computer professionals , allowing flexible ad hoc reporting and rapid response to continually changing requirements ; whether summaries of this information can be extracted to enable planning , monitoring , controlling and modelling applications to be carried out by the personnel planners .
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