Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 1670s and 1680s onwards the colourful and varied light-weight fabrics known as ‘ Norwich Stuffs ’ became fashionable and gave a new stimulus to an old industry . |
| 2 | When he heard the explanation , and that even the best calf had been killed , the fatted calf had been killed , to help the party he was furious . |
| 3 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 4 | this and that then the old women used to go to the door , shilling . |
| 5 | Between 1976 and 1986 when the total number of one parent families increased by 35 per cent , families headed by women increased more than families headed by men — almost 40 per cent compared to just over 10 per cent . |
| 6 | Detailed breakdown on wealth figures in Australia are set out in a series of tables in Australian Society include comparative figures for 1984 and 1986 where the total wealth of the richest 118 has increased by 250 per cent — over A$5,000 million — at a time when the total wealth has increased by 20 per cent . |
| 7 | wet and dry exactly the same Yeah identical . |
| 8 | ‘ He loved to change direction , ’ said Hardy , ‘ he loved to test people , to see where their pretensions were — it was all terrific fun to him , serious and not-serious both the same time , the way very very good comics are . |
| 9 | In an exhaustive study the Brookings Institution identified 190 incidents between 1944 and 1979 where the armed forces of the USSR have been used as a political instrument in peacetime . |
| 10 | The tide had receded , the land silted again , but the plant life remembered the salt inundation : oddities and rarities of flora attracted the scholarly and delighted even the uninformed . |
| 11 | Apprenticeship and skilled employment committees of one sort or another had existed in London since the 1860s and 1870s when the Jewish Board of Guardians decided to organize apprenticeship schemes for their own young workers . |
| 12 | Some bees come to recognise tripped from untripped flowers and frequent only the former , while others learn to chew a hole in the side of the flower so as to rob untripped blossoms without ever venturing inside . |
| 13 | The old river man had said this big tide would bring the elvers down , and sure enough the muddy water of the dock basin was full of them . |
| 14 | There was always a marked difference in impact between those programmes where people spoke freely in an impromptu , unscripted way and those where the same subject was dealt with in scripted form . |
| 15 | ’ The policy of containment ’ refers to a period between 1946 and 1949 when the Western powers had decided that a stalemate had been reached , with the Soviet Union and that the power of communism had ceased to grow and expand . |
| 16 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 17 | Some suggest that Com Tech , as Australia 's largest Novell distributor , has chosen to side with its most important partner and tough out the inevitable coolness from SCO . |
| 18 | It is illustrated in Figs. 13 and 15 where the overlying acoustically ‘ dead ’ character of the Barren Measures can be distinguished from the subcropping high-frequency reflections of the ‘ Grey ’ Coal Measures . |
| 19 | BETWEEN 1945 , WHEN the war ended , and 1956 when the first Reichmann son , Edward , appeared in Canada , Samuel engaged in a programme of frenzied European activity , the purpose of which was to gather together the early Reichmann millions . |
| 20 | A couple of grand prix wins came in 1963 and two more the following year before another highly successful season in 1965 saw three victories and a string of second places for Jackie Stewart and Hill . |
| 21 | For 1986 , each of the three index futures was underpriced , while for 1987 and 1988 only the MMI was significantly underpriced . |