Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iroquois had , he reported , a ‘ system of classification of kindred , both unique and extraordinary in its character , and wholly unlike any with which we are familiar ’ . |
| 2 | He was a rugged but skilful wing-half , first for Oxford City where he had his roots , and latterly for Corinthian Casuals , a club embodying the Corinthian spirit he did so much to preserve . |
| 3 | Hitchcock 's fondness for artifice , and latterly for extended European holidays combined with location filming , met with a setback in Torn Curtain ( 1966 ) , a spy story that was meant to comment on the Burgess and Maclean scandal of the early 1950s , but went wrong in scripting and casting . |
| 4 | Far from being the case , that scheme is vital for freight traffic and the King 's Cross delevopment links intimately and properly into that scheme . |
| 5 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 6 | At about 4.55 they came quietly and nervously from each community — right up to where the inspector and I stood . |
| 7 | So er as I say we do accept this but we have to er be careful just how much we undertake , and mercifully on this case there is no time limit , a and also I think we have the assurance from the board of world mission and unity , that they and any others who are , have something to offer , will help us . |
| 8 | Just turn up between noon and 7pm at one of the venues shown below for advice . |
| 9 | The word ‘ obey ’ settles unpleasantly and suspiciously on twentieth century ears , but Paul means by it what it says . |
| 10 | In fact , companies which train properly and successfully over several years bitterly resent other companies which do not indulge in training taking their workers . |
| 11 | Individuals may perform either role by itself ; or they might be active in both roles , and successfully at that ; or they may be strong in one but not in the other . |
| 12 | By now , though , the Japanese were getting wary of ambush , and following their usual high standard of training they had sentries hidden in the bushes rather than marching to and fro as ready bait for a commando knife . |
| 13 | Officials in their variety of blue uniforms hurried to and fro on urgent business . |
| 14 | During the trudging to and fro along echoing subways and draughty platforms that this necessitated , Harry began to notice , for all his preoccupation , that a man who had boarded the train with him at Brockenhurst was making the same complicated series of connections . |
| 15 | So a lot of sort of tracking to and fro between one end of the office , hoping that the two groups would n't meet . |
| 16 | Putting this more precisely , the proper time taken by light to pass to and fro between two fixed points in spaces oscillates . |
| 17 | Several inherited the throne in childhood , even in early infancy — ‘ Woe to the kingdom whose king is a child ’ — and were oppressed or imprisoned by their regents and guardians , kidnapped by the English , or bandied to and fro between powerful nobles . |
| 18 | ‘ I must have gone to and fro in great concentration of spirit , always anxious to get on . ’ |
| 19 | It is a very strange experience , walking the corridors of a large company , to hear loud blasts of phasers and the firing of photon torpedoes echoing to and fro from various offices . |
| 20 | The image used by Spitzer of the " philological circle " , the circle of understanding , is more appropriate Spitzer argued that the task of linguistic-literary explanation proceeded by the movement to and fro from linguistic details to the literary " centre " of a work or a writer 's art . |
| 21 | Both my master and myself took in our surroundings , whilst Agrippa , perched on the edge of the bench , hummed softly to himself , rocking to and fro like some cheerful sparrow . |
| 22 | As now , the decision who will proceed to A level , and thence to higher education will in effect have been taken at the end of the third year . |
| 23 | After this digression , we return to the falsificationist conception of the progress of science as the progression from problems to speculative hypotheses , to their criticism and eventual falsification and thence to new problems . |
| 24 | From there it spread through Asia Minor to Greece and Rome , and thence to northern Europe and North America . |
| 25 | A Constitution introduced by the King in 1962 embodied a multi-tiered system of panchayat ( council ) democracy , under which there are elected councils at village level which in turn elect members to district councils and thence to zonal councils . |
| 26 | By nature I mean , first , the principle of survival which drives us to continue living and necessarily entails the ingestion of food ; and , second , the principle of growth which transforms us from childhood to maturity and thence to old age . |
| 27 | An alternative southerly route was established from Malta to Kano in Nigeria , and thence across Central Africa south of the unstable Congo to Nairobi in Kenya . |
| 28 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 29 | The next stage I understand Chair , is that a report on the consultation process and what 's come out of it will be , will be brought in er , in the first instance , to the J C C and the community care advisory committee , and , and thence with substantive recommendations to this Committee , and to the health authority etcetera , in relation to the substance of the report . |
| 30 | From there he went to the Earl of Denbigh 's garden at Newnham Paddox , and thence in 1850 to Harewood , Yorkshire , then in the course of transformation by Sir Charles Barry [ q.v. ] , whom Fleming assisted in the creation of the terrace garden . |