Example sentences of "and [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 These are firstly the development of new forms of alternative homes or home-based care ; secondly the design of appropriate assessment procedures and techniques ; thirdly the creation of intensive case management services to provide co-ordination of care at home ; and fourthly the organizational and managerial response towards more integrated systems exemplified by such initiatives as the Care Programme Approach for people with mental illness .
2 They always appeared in a ‘ special comedy show ’ on Christmas night — and perhaps the creaking and overfed somnolence of that evening was the best state in which to watch their predictable routines .
3 At that time , one could enter the building easily , wander up and down the racked and discoloured ramp , contemplate the looting of one of the door handles , even find undrunk wine in a cupboard .
4 Rauschenberg 's fertile imagination oscillates among styles and techniques , and only the Black and Red Paintings , with their richly textured surfaces of paint and newspaper , look properly accomplished .
5 Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course .
6 We are going to see a supplement war and only the strongest and the most confident and the best produced will really come out of these in a in a good way .
7 All three of these approaches , and especially the second and third , do have their validity .
8 I would love to have a friend of around my own age to share outings , coffee and a chat and generally the good and the bad of bringing up children .
9 For the great majority of its members this , and not the long-term and grander aspirations of the Movement , was the compelling attraction ; and the institution of the dividend on purchases created among members a dominant body of people whose interest was to maximise the amount .
10 TO suit BBC TV demands , the British semi finals of the ABA championships will be held at Gateshead Leisure Centre on Monday and Tuesday April 13 and 14 , and not the 14th and 15th .
11 And not the worst and not the best , just about average .
12 In his Ascension Day Speech in May 1927 , Mussolini asserted that ‘ demographic power conditioned one political and thus the economic and moral power of nations ’ .
13 It was the widest ramp , it had various height sections , many of the better skaters , the convenience of the nearby shopping precinct , and just the funniest and best skate sessions .
14 A red string bag ( the kind that you buy oranges in ) gives a lively black and white pattern ; a piece of plastic bubble wrap makes a precise even pattern ; the familiar orderly weave of coarse sacking combines with its frayed , undisciplined edging ; the sinuous spiral is formed from ordinary string , and finally the animated and random pattern at the top is created from scattered uncooked rice grains .
15 The involvement of the government in economic life would be minimal , concerned primarily with running the legal system and conceivably the military and the police .
16 Of these , semantically and ideologically the leaf-people and the original people stand closest to the Chewong , while Tanko and keoi stand closest to the outsiders .
17 ‘ However ingeniously and wisely the civil and industrial controls and rationing schemes may have been devised ’ , wrote Sir Richard Hopkins , Head of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1942 to 1945 , ‘ they would not have achieved that full success but for the goodwill with which amid the strain and stress of war they were accepted by industry and by the community as a whole . ’
18 These circumstances are themselves historically changing , and in response to the changes new social movements and parties may emerge within the established political system , as did the socialist parties , and later the communist and fascist parties , in Europe .
19 In the north , however , where larger windows were essential , the intersecting and later the groined and ribbed vaults were evolved at a comparatively early date and walls were thickened to solve this problem .
20 A profile of the design and organisation of the experimental clinical nursing unit , data on the study design and also the quantitative and qualitative results are presented clearly .
21 ‘ The committee took into account his exemplary record , his contribution to the game , both with his county and nationally , and also the fine and suspension imposed by Northamptonshire . ’
22 She 'd bought an array of stylish cosmetics , received a free lesson on how to apply all her expensive purchases from one of the white-coated assistants in the department store , bought shoes and bags and accessories , flashed her friendly credit card until she thought the plastic might melt from overuse — and now the finishing and most dramatic change of all !
23 Where the barn adjoined the dwelling it is called a laithe house , and often the stable and cow-house were built beyond the barn as part of the same range .
24 It was immediately clear that the weakest area was in information management , where major improvements are needed in order to exploit and make available to staff and public the large and complex information resources present within RBG .
25 Sometimes you hardly get any time to cross the road before the actual lights turn , and particularly the handicapped and the blind
26 And yet really , it harkens back to er very ancient thought , er half the world of course is teaching reincarnation , and even the Christian and Jewish world er have in their history the teaching of reincarnation , so it 's not something brand new .
27 So you 'd just You 'd just put the sixth if you know that there 's two twelfth you just like that and then the twelve and then you could count round like that
28 He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash .
29 With an effort , he heaved up first one foot and then the other and moved back onto firmer ground .
30 ‘ I look at your face , and I look at one eye and then the other and then your nose , but I ca n't seem to look at your face altogether , all at once , because the sight of your face is causing me pain . ’
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