Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the US could allow themselves to be convinced that they were fighting one war , in Vietnam and Korea ; that with practically unlimited US military and economic assistance the French could defeat the main Vietminh forces in Tonkin ; and that revolution or insurgency could be contained in the rest of the country . |
| 2 | It was from the late Sir Harry Luke , author of that delightful and civilized book The Tenth Muse ( Putnam , 1954 , and revised edition 1962 ) that I learned of the beauty of mulberry ices . |
| 3 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 4 | The parallel with policies inside multi-racial societies for banishing or reducing racial ‘ discrimination ’ or for exorcising by economic and social reorganisation the mutual envy and fear of envy between the races , does not need to be laboured . |
| 5 | For all the surface change that accompanied the industrialisation of Prussian and German society the social and political pressures that emanated from the Junkers on these issues remained uniform and constant . |
| 6 | God grant that here in this great home of eager thought and enlightened action and generous friendship the bitter cry of outcast London may never be intrusive or uninteresting but that year by year her choicest sons may be arrested by it . |
| 7 | The omission of the verb gives an immediacy which would be missing from a construction such as It is a virgin scene ( where the present tense is a direct attempt to make a coding time and content time the same ) . |
| 8 | ( b ) finishers case up lavatories. ( c ) inside ceilings painted third and fourth coats of white , and outside body the second coat lead colour and first coat of filling . |
| 9 | Many Rare Breed units require a ‘ visual ’ value which makes the presence of young calves during late Spring and early Summer the prime factor for increasing attendance by the paying public . |
| 10 | In a world of perfect certainty and perfect foresight the traditional view of the term structure is that long-run interest rates are simply averages of future short-term rates , so that : where denotes the ‘ one-period ’ rate , that is the market rate of interest at time t on bonds with one period to maturity ; and denotes the ‘ n-period ’ rate , that is the market interest rate at time t on bonds with n periods to maturity . |
| 11 | The exception to this is in sentences 11–14 where we find the locational reference here and functional reference the same chemical is responsible for … |
| 12 | In sociological and anthropological literature the phatic use of language has been frequently commented on — particularly the conventional use of language to open talk-exchanges and to close them . |
| 13 | In the fields of glacial and periglacial geomorphology the first modern textbook ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) was soon followed by others ( Price , 1973 ) ; and later work utilized a systems framework ( Andrews , 1975 ; Sugden and John , 1976 ) as indicated later ( p. 159 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I do not think if we had put down a motion which said we believe in motherhood and sliced bread the Labour Party would have backed us , ’ he said . |
| 15 | While the first is mainly the result of political debate and inevitable compromise the second arises as a result of translating diffuse policy decisions into concrete plans for action . |
| 16 | We were moored for a minute , then ‘ Let's all get the hell out of here , ’ said the man in the wheelhouse and like lightning the young lad untied the rope and jumped aboard as the boat reversed astern . |
| 17 | Assuming that your machine has a standard sized case and existing motherboard the important calculation to do is the value of what you would keep and what you would throw away . |
| 18 | May I say how much I appreciate the Minister 's approach — that if , and only if , through patience and good will the present peace negotiations succeed , there is hope for an end to terrorism in that part of the world ? |
| 19 | We start by bringing together in a compact and comparative form the key data for the various groups of intermediaries , in Table 4.3 . |
| 20 | In early and late season the strong winds become less frequent , and it 's then good for novices . |
| 21 | In this naval and colonial struggle the main protagonists were Great Britain and , in opposition to her , France normally supported by Spain . |
| 22 | While the wife of Ngo Van Loc served his breakfast and poured coffee the American boy peered anxiously at his father . |
| 23 | Horizontal equity is the equal treatment of equals , and vertical equity the unequal treatment of unequals . |
| 24 | With a combination of ultrasound and fluoroscopic guidance the definitive puncture with an 18 G longdwell needle ( Becton-Dickinson ) was performed . |
| 25 | said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release . |
| 26 | They should not entirely supplant from political discourse and practical consideration the separate question of restrictions on the use ( as distinct from possession ) of nuclear weapons . |
| 27 | The European struggle was drawing to a close but in the Pacific and Far East the savage struggle continued . |
| 28 | Whatever the truth may be , placed at the service of his own dramatic imagination and superb craftsmanship the tonal idiom of the French lyric theatre and its symbolic associations helped Campra to write some of the most engaging cantatas in the repertory . |
| 29 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 30 | The most probable reason , considering the fanciful and irresponsible way the tabloid press operates these days , is a wish to punish newspapers for libel in a way that hurts and deters . |