Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam thought of himself and Rufus as being wild and laid-back at the same time , equally like that , young adventurers with all the world before them and all the time they wanted to do what they liked with . |
| 2 | Jonna looked at his fingerends , already cracked and sore from the outdoor work , even though winter had not begun . |
| 3 | Sometimes , since then , Lewis had wondered what would have happened if Adam had obeyed him and been kind and polite to the perverse old man . |
| 4 | 3 Heat the oil to 190C/375F , place the chicken pieces in a basket and lower into the hot oil . |
| 5 | I believe it to constitute one of the clearest lines of demarcation between upper and lower in the working class . ’ |
| 6 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 7 | If Finn thought he was going to play hell with her heart he was very much mistaken , and if her carefulness made her life less rich , then that was entirely her own lookout and preferable to the interesting anguish of the uncertain love affair . |
| 8 | Between the Sidlaw Hills and the Braes of Angus , the red loam of Strathmore has provided healthy cropping and stock-rearing since the twelfth century in spite of disruptive wars and civil strife . |
| 9 | In this respect his art and that of the New Sculptors differed little from the earlier romantic neo-classicism of a sculptor like , whose work would nevertheless have been decried by the same practitioners as cold and outmoded . |
| 10 | Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID . |
| 11 | The spread of this belief marks the divide between the mental outlook of Classical antiquity and that of the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | The venom from worm-killing cones is harmless to humans , and that of the mollusc-feeding cones seldom has serious consequences . |
| 13 | The difference between the critic 's activity and that of the good reader is not really all that great . |
| 14 | He said the public grief and that of the bereaved families has been enormous . |
| 15 | By becoming aware that one 's own denial system and that of the primary sufferer will tend to collude together to delay diagnosis despite obvious evidence of recurrent damaging consequences . |
| 16 | The amplitude of the initial unresolved step is 1.85x10 -6 Hz , and that of the short-term asymptotic rise is 0.7x10 -6 Hz . |
| 17 | There is a particularly marked contrast between the experience of the more urbanized areas of the Midlands and northern England and that of the broad zone to the north and west of London stretching from Hampshire and Wiltshire through to Cambridgeshire and Norfolk . |
| 18 | The result was a shattering defeat for both elements of the Azaña coalition : Socialist strength was reduced to 58 seats and that of the entire Republican Left to 38 , of which 22 represented Catalonia . |
| 19 | They drew an interesting distinction between the Government and Liberal Democrat approach , and that of the official Opposition . |
| 20 | Official ideology proclaims the unity of individual , group and societal interests and ‘ Soviet trade union leaders perceive the interests of the assembly-line worker and that of the Soviet state ( and through that state , factory management ) as identical ’ ( Ruble , 1981 , p.9 ) . |
| 21 | Pre-Darwinist concepts of comparative natural history were used to show certain fundamental connections between man 's physical organization and that of the lower mammals . |
| 22 | Visual documents such as Thomson 's are an exciting link with our own history , and that of the developing world . |
| 23 | In the three years to 1975 the CNAA 's workload more than doubled , and that of the Combined Studies ( Humanities ) Board increased even faster . |
| 24 | The repeated confirmation of the correlation between the physical characteristics of the stimulus and the characteristics of the neural activity it triggers , and between the characteristics of the stimulus and that of the subjective sensation , has encouraged the belief that our sensations are in some sense to be understood in terms of a set of stimulation levels ( spiking frequencies ) in the appropriate sensory pathways . |
| 25 | The difference between the situation of such characters and the readers and that of the remaining characters within the fabliaux makes irony a typical feature of the experience of reading a fabliau . |
| 26 | Dei based her final dissertation on Artemesia giving a feminist art perspective on her work and that of the 17th century writer Aphra Behn . |
| 27 | But the affinities between this scene and that of the Drunken Poet in The Fairy Queen ( illus.2 ) are clear . |
| 28 | In parallel , the inner life of the Tsar and that of the two most visionary of his children , the haemophiliac Tsarevich Alexis and the daughter Tatiana , becomes increasingly burdened and tormented by visions . |
| 29 | The citation currency period for each cited thesis is here defined as the difference ( in years ) between the year of the last recorded citation , and that of the first . |
| 30 | DUAO was calculated as the difference between the urine H + /creatinine molar ratio of the urine sample collected after basal acid secretion , and that of the first urine sample passed after gastric stimulation . |