Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | They to and fro to a chirping tap |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 9 | It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Heavy footsteps crossed the ceiling from corner to corner , striding back and forth , to and fro in a familiar monotonous pattern . |
| 16 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 17 | The windbreak of pine trees which sheltered the buildings on the north side , creaked and groaned in the piercing wind ; the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner . |
| 18 | So much paper passing to and fro in a single day , thought the tall boy . |
| 19 | He swivelled to and fro in the padded chair . |
| 20 | The reading knob must be slid to and fro from the far ends of the slot . |
| 21 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 22 | The resultant economics was to lead directly to the Renaissance , and thence to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 23 | The L3 then passes in the bloodstream to the lungs and thence to the small intestine via the trachea . |
| 24 | The L1 break into the alveoli , migrate to the trachea and thence to the alimentary tract to be passed in the faeces . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |