Example sentences of "and [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We have made mention in passing of mobility within the context of a family 's history : both the ups and down of social mobility according to circumstance , and the more obviously-apparent geographical moves people made to ensure their own survival or to better their lot . |
2 | There is much that is unsatisfactory in the current convention for allocating women to a social class , and this project , which uses the Longitudinal Study , a 1% sample of the census , aims to develop a social classification scheme for women in and out of paid work and based on full or part time paid work and domestic responsibilities . |
3 | Her distraught family were given the bombshell news yesterday as the model lapsed in and out of horrific hallucinations . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
6 | Now I know my pornographic magazines : Debonair belonged to the cheaper range , targeted at the manual worker 's handjob , with many a salacious housewife or spotty-bummed Swede twisting herself in and out of chain-store under-wear . |
7 | They tend to move very easily between agencies , in and out of temporary work and in and out of the labour market . |
8 | Do n't change lanes unexpectedly or weave in and out of slow-moving traffic . |
9 | Describing it variously as a lark and a spree , The Times was satisfied that although ‘ genteel ruffianism has met with a very decisive rebuff ’ , the Cremorne affair was nothing more than something done ‘ on the impulse of the moment , and out of pure love of mischief ’ . |
10 | At the crime prevention panel , I watched a video of a police chase through the centre of Middlesbrough , in which a 14-year-old drove a Vauxhall Astra at 90 miles per hour on the wrong side of the road , weaving in and out of oncoming traffic . |
11 | Sophisticated young women , with toned-down Irish accents , tripped in and out of expensive perfume and handbag shops . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It appeared that for two years after the wrist-slashing incident she 'd been in and out of mental hospital . |
14 | They wove in and out of other couples . |
15 | Loot was a farce , although it was not about people running in and out of other people 's bedrooms , in and out of coffins more likely . |
16 | Changes in the relative numbers of the different types of household that make up the aggregate population have actuarial consequences for the future pattern of public and private transfers into and out of collective saving and insurance funds . |
17 | The path wound in and out of deep ravines , through thick oak and pine forests and dense undergrowth . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
20 | I stopped , out of breath and out of specious logic . |
21 | Gedge continued to reach for his guitar while at university and drifted in and out of various lineups . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | By reading between the lines of textual data and other psychological texts , associative feminist psychologies comment on what is written into and out of psychological discourse . |
27 | In the fourteenth century , for instance , Arnaud de Cervole was in and out of royal employment and was actually appointed royal chamberlain in 1363 , while his son had the duke of Burgundy as his godfather . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Information Services functions ( including records managers , librarians , information scientists , archivists and others ) have , in many organisations , been re-organised in and out of numerous different departments . |
30 | 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 . |