Example sentences of "the [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest and generally the commonest white-rumped brown wader , very variable in size . |
| 2 | He also operated a small fleet of ships , issued the largest and arguably the finest British token coinage , purchased the two-member pocket borough of Great Marlow , for which he was MP from 1790 , and built there Temple House , designed by Samuel Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | A variety of building types are represented at Cowdery 's Down , but building C12 , the largest and possibly the most elaborate , may serve to demonstrate the skills required . |
| 4 | During the last week of August the Soviet Union for the first time allowed parties of Japanese to visit family graves on the island of Etorofu , the largest and militarily the most sensitive of the Northern Territories ( the Soviet Union was believed to have a division of ground troops and a squadron of MiG-23 fighter aircraft based there ) . |
| 5 | In the rural communities of previous centuries most families included more than two generations — the extended family — and the families of land-owners were further extended to include the indoor and sometimes the outdoor servants . |
| 6 | The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power . |
| 7 | The redder the light , the farther and faster the galaxy . |
| 8 | The prototype Caribou first flower on July 30 , 1958 and attracted a lot of interest , including the US Army who ordered the type initially as the CV-2 and later the C-7 , the type seeing service in Vietnam . |
| 9 | I slowly began to realize that the Alexander Technique not only covers the physical body , but also the mental , the psychological , the emotional and even the spiritual … a sort of ‘ sorcerer 's stone ’ . |
| 10 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 11 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 12 | So you get the fourteenth and then the following one is the twenty eighth February ? |
| 13 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 14 | A man who finds a ready market among the ever-hopeful for his protective devices , was shown with a radiation-checker which would enable families to decide who is the one with the leastest and therefore the candidate to go outside first . |
| 15 | The lessons that the British and later the Americans drew from Dakar were twofold : first , the operational and political disadvantages of collaborative expeditions with Free France ; and second , the practical necessity of working with or at least through Vichy 's imperial administrators . |
| 16 | So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you |
| 17 | This gives the slope of the CML and hence the measure could be used to position portfolio performance in the risk return space . |
| 18 | As we have already seen , recruitment of girl apprentices increased during the 1890s and especially the 1900s . |
| 19 | Of course you do n't have to keep off land during the stalking season if you do n't want to , since trespass in Scotland is contained within the civil and not the criminal law . |
| 20 | It 's the same model that Bruce Springsteen uses , and I use the six and also the 12-string versions . |
| 21 | Maybe that 's just me , but that 's how I feel … there 's no warmth … just red paint around the outside and then a few splodges gone over with different coloured paint and [ he ] hoped for the best … |
| 22 | A chance observer saw the sling being used by the second and soon the rumour was circulating that Paul Ross had used ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Prodigal Sons ( a later companion route to Deja Vu ) . |
| 23 | All these references , but most obviously the second and especially the third , are potentially sociological , but they involve very different kinds of analysis from the tracing of direct relations of content or of form . |
| 24 | Only where the demands of the Anglo-Norman and then the Angevin empire dictated it was there regular delegation of the prince 's judicial rights to an official ; even then , this delegation was revoked when the king-duke visited . |
| 25 | ‘ Not the worst and not the best , this is everyday . ’ |
| 26 | And not the worst and not the best , just about average . |
| 27 | And standard structures associated with dance and song , together with characteristic melodic types and rhythmic patterns , survive into the eighteenth and even the nineteenth centuries ( symphonic minuets , Viennese waltzes , domestic atrophic songs , Italian opera arias ) . |
| 28 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 29 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |
| 30 | Six cylinder saloons and coupes followed , then the 5-series , the 3-series — how logical it all seems today — the 6-series , the sevens and now the eights . |