Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everybody is excited about the UN order as it 's a first for us and tremendously important for the future , ’ said . |
| 2 | Although displaced by 70 seaters in the Bexley area , the 60 seaters were retained to the end in the Croydon area , Nos. 64–93 and latterly all of the 489–493 batch . |
| 3 | For parasites whose offspring infect the offspring of their host ( vertical transmission ) , any behaviour by the parasite that decreases the fecundity of its host ( and thereby that of the parasite itself ) is unlikely to be favoured by natural selection . |
| 4 | At death a series of rites enabled the pharaoh himself to become Osiris and thereby safe from the depredations of time . |
| 5 | President Bush 's administration has revealed its plan to save the Pacific Northwest 's spotted owl , and thereby some of the " old growth " forests which are its homeland . |
| 6 | Anyway things got quite hot and eventually one of the guides was sent over to talk to the Indians and the word came back that they would n't share their camp with us anyway , which is quite funny I suppose . |
| 7 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 8 | They are already directly and effectively involved in the fight against crime — which , alas , is all too real — and are performing the role that my hon. Friend wants them to perform . |
| 9 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 10 | They still guard the interests of the smallest and most protectionist of the country 's auctioneers who would be bankrupted by an open market . |
| 11 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar , which was where Mahmoud was taking them , was one of the oldest and most traditional of the bazaars . |
| 12 | How did this greatest and most awe-inspiring of the great cats come to make the East its special domain ? |
| 13 | Romania , the largest and most influential of the three , makes items in a wide range of qualities , sizes and designs ( pl. 25 ) . |
| 14 | The Yugoslav federation entered a period of severe political crisis in mid-March , following the violent suppression on March 9 of an anti-communist demonstration in Belgrade , the federal capital and capital of Serbia , largest and most influential of the six republics in the federation . |
| 15 | ( Edited by Peter Edwards , available from Essex CCC , ) is the fattest and most thorough of the yearbooks received , probably because , as the editorial points out , last year ‘ there were so many aspects of Essex 's Championship success ’ . |
| 16 | Much else in the city centre has been cleaned and restored : the neo-Romanesque Central Station of 1905 , in whose gilded ticket hall contemporary music is played ; the Gothic cathedral , the largest and most impressive in the Low Countries ; and the Grote Markt , an irregular triangle of 16th-century guild houses ( Antwerp is a town of asymmetry : one of the cathedral 's twin towers is only half-built ) . |
| 17 | The commercial agora on Ephesos was one of the largest and most impressive in the world . |
| 18 | If the conflicts have been most evident in direct cultural production , they have been most complex and most general in the crucial formative area of education , where the direct controls of established institutions of reproduction have been easier to maintain , largely because the influence of market forces has been very much less relevant , and the only major factor of asymmetry has been the ( always practically weaker ) claim of professional and cultural independence . |
| 19 | Personal convictions provide the strongest pressure in making professional judgments , and two of the most powerful and most relevant in the question of censorship are moral principles and political beliefs . |
| 20 | MALAYSIA : On the west coast , Penang is the largest and most developed of the islands , with attractive beaches and an interesting history ( it is the oldest British settlement in Malaysia ) . |
| 21 | That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories . |
| 22 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 23 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 24 | But the brand new church can press the question : what at this time is most pleasing to God and most helpful to the completely unchurched outsider ? |
| 25 | The consecration of the High Priest to his office , the highest and most sacred in the nation , was effected by sprinkling his garments and daubing his right ear , thumb and foot with the blood of a sacrificed animal ( Exod. |
| 26 | It is the largest and most central of the security forces : the Army and UDR take their orders from it . |
| 27 | The largest and most radical of the opposition parties , the Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , led by Kim Dae Jung , was excluded from the merger . |
| 28 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 29 | But for all of the work he has carried out , Barlow Clowes has proved to the largest and most complex in the office 's 22 year history . |
| 30 | La Paysanne , executed at La Rue-des-Bois ( where Picasso spent most of August ) , or shortly after Picasso 's return to Paris , is one of the largest and most powerful of the group . |