Example sentences of "and [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy footsteps crossed the ceiling from corner to corner , striding back and forth , to and fro in a familiar monotonous pattern . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So much paper passing to and fro in a single day , thought the tall boy . |
| 5 | And it ran on , beyond the perimeter of the chamber , on and on in a straight line for hundreds of metres , for kilometres , dwindling in the distance to a taut thread against darkness but still stretching away . |
| 6 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 7 | But occasionally , and forgiveably in a live commentary that may last only seconds , his tongue has played tricks . |
| 8 | Statistical returns have played a vital role in the ability to present the activities of the service , nationally and locally in a simple understandable format . |
| 9 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 10 | It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town . |
| 11 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |
| 12 | The dark girl had dived into the bright turquoise swimming-pool , and was swimming up and down in a leisurely breast-stroke , moving through the myriad white marble reflections in the water like a fish . |
| 13 | Ride up and down in a chauffeur-driven limousine , smoking big cigars . |
| 14 | Where , on the other hand , the third estate was still weak and only in a budding stage at the beginning of the nineteenth century , as in Germany , Italy , and among the Slavonic peoples , nationalism found its expression predominantly in the cultural field . |
| 15 | At first , it touched just one or two establishments , and only in a small way , but it spread with time and today it is one of the major driving forces in AEA 's business . |
| 16 | While Danzigers were most definitely on the sharp end of Polish-German relations they were also historically and personally in a unique position to give the lie to Nazi manipulation and simplification . |
| 17 | First it threatens the principle of documentary examination , which requires that banks , meaning both the confirming and the issuing bank , verify the tender of the seller 's document in a unitary , and not in a truncated or segmented , fashion . |
| 18 | In Gandhi 's view , the statement ‘ son of God ’ could only be used in a figurative sense and not in a literal sense so that anyone ‘ who stands in the position of Jesus is a begotten son of God ’ . |
| 19 | The linguistic model is , on the whole , used here in a very general and metaphorical sense , and not in a literal and detailed one . |
| 20 | So that that Association can actually employ erm the Yorkshire and Humberside area in an intelligent way and not in a divided way . |
| 21 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 22 | And I think this social position is more apparent to the informant and the variation in role relations more marked than if the interviewer is an outsider and not in a particular relation to the speakers from the outset . |
| 23 | We asked her mother who , in spite of being Jewish and already in a precarious position , did not hesitate for a moment . |
| 24 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 25 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 26 | Furthermore , growth itself is more difficult without a respectable profits record , and conversely in a dynamic economy continuing profitability frequently demands growth . |
| 27 | With your hands on your hips , swing your legs forwards and backwards in a gentle jogging motion , transferring the weight from one leg to the other . |
| 28 | His injured rear left leg wheeled over and over in a frantic bowling motion . |
| 29 | The hammer-blow force of the lethal chungdan ap-chagi foot-strike , catapulted Baal 's body up and over in a backward flip , his rib-cage crushed and imploded into his ruptured lungs . |
| 30 | He is continuing his five year project on manual labour , which will be shown periodically in special issues of the newspaper LIBERATION , Paris , and finally in a large-scale exhibition and publication . |