Example sentences of "and [adv prt] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But despite the appalling conditions , most crews stayed the course and out of 72 rafts competing , 59 made it to the finish at Chepstow . |
| 2 | Her distraught family were given the bombshell news yesterday as the model lapsed in and out of horrific hallucinations . |
| 3 | Rachel has been lapsing in and out of horrific hallucinations at Liverpool 's Broad Green hospital since she took half a tablet of Ecstasy at a party 11 days ago . |
| 4 | He had suffered from these for seven years and had been in and out of mental hospitals many times and had received every available treatment including electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) — all to no avail . |
| 5 | They wove in and out of other couples . |
| 6 | The path wound in and out of deep ravines , through thick oak and pine forests and dense undergrowth . |
| 7 | The effect on the demography of the inner cities could be dramatic , as migration into and out of inner cities is in any case already high . |
| 8 | At a meeting with the Lords Lieutenant , it was recorded , ‘ many of them being so sick by this great fatigue , and out of all hopes of relief from His Majesty 's forces , absolutely refused to hold out any longer ’ , whereupon the city corporation , conscious that already some of the militia had disappeared over the walls and fearing further desertions , voted by 24 to 15 to capitulate . |
| 9 | There 's two vehicles out there , and out of fourteen wheels , they 've had ten each slashed . |
| 10 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 11 | Therefore , while the user is moving in and out of various accounts in the course of normal work , LIFESPAN can be accessed at any time from any account which contains the relevant modules . |
| 12 | In this case the weakness of the division of labour between branches or enterprises as a principle of social collectivity , on account of the substantial movement of US workers , both geographically and in and out of various kinds of work , is a condition of existence of a strongly formed radical proletarian collectivity cutting across branch or enterprise lines . |
| 13 | Gedge continued to reach for his guitar while at university and drifted in and out of various lineups . |
| 14 | But South Belfast councillor John Parkes objected to the call by Dr Hendron to have more checkpoints to monitor traffic in and out of loyalist areas of the city . |
| 15 | In particular , the boys drift into and out of minor delinquencies while hanging around the streets in groups looking for something to do , as the following extract from his study illustrates . |
| 16 | She has been so strange , a sullen , lumpy girl , given to peering in the mirror and walking despondently in and out of empty rooms , scorning experiences and emotions . |
| 17 | Coleman 's first job for NARCOG would be to get it operational as a listening post to monitor Lebanese radio traffic and to keep track of shipping movements in and out of Lebanese ports . |
| 18 | Of the nine secular cathedrals in England , the deans at York , Lichfield and Wells were royal clerks , and out of fifty-two archdeacons sixteen were king 's clerks — three out of five at York , four out of eight at Lincoln . |
| 19 | In other words people move in and out of dependent states ( just as younger people do ) and the help they receive can either enforce dependency permanently or provide the temporary support they need to recover . |
| 20 | After school , individuals can move into and out of departmental definitions . |
| 21 | It pumps me so full of adrenalin that I pace in and out of duty-free shops , toilets , coffee shops , anything . |
| 22 | I started to wander again , in and out of second-hand bookshops , and then into an amusement arcade . |
| 23 | The youthful population ebbed and surged like a floodtide in and out of public houses and discos . |
| 24 | I must have passed in and out of several counties that morning , looking for that dolmen . |
| 25 | He had two almost contemporary biographies and a wealth of oral tradition to draw on , and out of these materials he made a lively and dramatic portrait , full of sentiment and warmth , which easily outdistanced in popularity the biographies written by later writers who tried to do better . |
| 26 | He must get out of this house and out of these memories as quickly as he could . |
| 27 | After getting into and out of three corners between stretches of flat wall , she found a door . |
| 28 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 29 | The Avignon sailed in and out of thick belts of marshy , deserted jungle , and sometimes he caught sight of villages of stilted houses with matting walls built in the clearings . |
| 30 | This section is one of the most dramatic , weaving in and out of sheltered coves and exposed headlands . |