Example sentences of "and [adv] in the " in BNC.

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1 The world has changed radically since the admission of individuals such as Marx and vastly in the 40 years since the 1951 convention was drawn up .
2 Finally we breasted the saddle in the lower ridge , what in the Welsh mountains , and latterly in the Himalayas , we would call the cwm .
3 We are also pleased to welcome two new Word Processor Operators to the ACDP Unit : , who has worked with the Council for some time , first of all in General Office Services and latterly in the Assessment Department ; and , who comes with first hand knowledge of Advanced Courses , having recently completed an HNC in Secretarial Studies at Motherwell College .
4 I got into the truck and George sped away along the road , the water slurping heavily to and fro in the tank immediately behind our seats .
5 Further along , Simon could see Mr Bishop 's kiosk , abandoned to the elements , its shutters still down , its back door flapping open , banging to and fro in the wind .
6 Men from each force blundered to and fro in the darkness and El Cid himself was slightly wounded .
7 ‘ They walked to and fro in the twilight ’
8 But Millie , her body twisted , her two arms extended , was gripping the woman 's wrists while being tossed to and fro in the struggle , and she , too , was screaming , ‘ You wo n't !
9 But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department .
10 So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it , and then he pushed th " trolley in , and I went in after , and the mother began her howling and shrieking , and Will said , " Well , I 'll walk off and leave you to it . "
11 As soon as Schmidt settled , she rose again and walked to and fro in the room pecking at her cigarette .
12 He picked up a kitten by its tail and swung it to and fro in the air , laughing at its cries .
13 He swivelled to and fro in the padded chair .
14 ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up .
15 An inn sign swung to and fro in the wind .
16 Ranulf flashed the coroner a dagger glance but Cranston was already rocking to and fro in the saddle , laughing uproariously at his own joke .
17 Mass unemployment has led to an exclusion from sharing in the country 's prosperity , and thereby in the hope of seeing one 's economic position improve , for a significant group of the population .
18 Again at high currents , there is wasteful power dissipation in R , and additionally in the control element itself , so that the shunt regulator on the whole is not so efficient , under like circumstances , as the series model .
19 Joint degrees involving Mathematics are also available in both these faculties and additionally in the Faculty of Social Sciences .
20 Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race .
21 This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds .
22 The Kingdom of Norway is a parliamentary monarchy ; executive power is vested formally in the king ( currently Olav V ) and effectively in the Prime Minister and the Council of State ( Cabinet ) ; legislative power is vested in the 165-member Parliament ( Storting ) elected for a four-year term .
23 ‘ I am particularly pleased that , as part of the development , the Morayhill factory will become a major administrative centre for Norbord , as it is further proof that the advanced telecommunications network in this area enables companies to carry out office functions efficiently and cost-effectively in the Highlands and Islands . ’
24 Saxton Bampfylde tries to be extra sensitive , open and considerate , not only to the clients who are its bread and butter , but also to candidates , who frequently feel they have been ridden roughshod over and hard-done-by in the search process .
25 Nevertheless , there are now over 400 officially registered grape growers in England and Wales , most of whom make wine , and most in the South of England .
26 We knew that 6pm in Vancouver was 7pm on the prairies , 8pm in Winnipeg , 9pm in Toronto & Montreal and 10pm in the Maritime provinces .
27 There were dangerous jobs and little in the way of safety precautions .
28 One of the features of change was the emergence of a unique landscape along the coast , on the riverside and in the countryside : ‘ a makeshift world of shacks and shanties , scattered unevenly in plots of varying size and shape , with unmade roads and little in the way of services ’ ( Hardy and Ward .
29 One way of doing this is to point out the less organized character of a movement , in which there may be no regular or easily identifiable membership ( no ‘ party card ’ or dues ) , and little in the way of a central office or staff .
30 This implies that the return flow for velocity fluctuations towards or away from the centre of the wake occurs dominantly in the upstream and downstream directions and little in the transverse ( z and -z ) directions .
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