Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The section will conclude with some remarks on two topics of special interest : the effects of exchange depreciation on the balance sheets of Yugoslav banks , and the revealing light thrown on the Yugoslav financial system by the recent collapse of the Bosnian firm of Agrokomerc . |
| 2 | And the heart-rending tragedy of the tiny coffins of a family of victims ? |
| 3 | The upper part of the vagina swells out and the vaginal wall becomes moist . |
| 4 | The declivities seemed to promise more ease than the heights because of the heavier shade and the caressing sound of the small brooks which ran clear and sparkling across their path . |
| 5 | I am angry and disgusted at the feeble-minded lot at Northants and the petty-minded lot at Lord 's . |
| 6 | There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il . |
| 7 | A major contribution of Weinreich , Labov and Herzog ( 1968 ) and the quantitative paradigm has been to demonstrate that heterogeneity in the speech community can be shown to be have patterns in it . |
| 8 | And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude . |
| 9 | And the prevailing compensation structure in practically all businesses reinforces this attitude because it is heavily biased towards managerial positions and titles . |
| 10 | That is a plausible argument and it points to the importance of economic factors and the prevailing division of labour in shaping sibling relationships . |
| 11 | Modernization and the prevailing orthodoxy encouraged the view that Japan was superior to her Asian neighbours and had a duty to promote change in them and fulfil her own destiny . |
| 12 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 13 | However , it is important to stress that the conditions for a sustained easing of monetary policy are not yet present and the prevailing view is likely to be that , barring a breakthrough on the solidarity pact and a resolution of the east German wages situation , the next cut in rates may be at least a couple of months off . |
| 14 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 15 | Because of the difference in height between the Arun and the casualty , and the prevailing weather conditions , Second Coxswain Barnes decided that it would not be possible to go alongside without causing damage . |
| 16 | All his life he had kept a diary ; it was a detached record of matters like the arrivals of the first migrants , the occurrence of various plant species in the Britches , and the prevailing weather . |
| 17 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 18 | If the income tax is levied on Β , this term is unaltered , and the proportional tax has no effect on inequality ( this is the analogue of the case discussed in Section 9–1 ) . |
| 19 | By highlighting the threat to the constitution from Labour and Liberal plans for a Scottish Parliament and the proportional representation system by which its members would be elected , he consistently and robustly drove home the message that the Tories alone stood as the party of Union , of collective strength in negotations abroad and strong government at home . |
| 20 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |
| 21 | The paintings are virtually priceless , covering three centuries of Lombard devotional work up to the start of the Neo-Classical period , and the decorative work is exquisite . |
| 22 | Much of the figures is covered in close-set pattern , and the decorative effect enhanced by patches of white and purple-red . |
| 23 | Paul asked the Corinthians , and the unanswerable logic of his question was designed to cut decisively at the root of ingratitude . |
| 24 | He wove the details of the awful events of November 22 , 1963 with the subsequent happenings , and the ever-growing mountain of information on the subject , brilliantly . |
| 25 | For a moment , like a scholar contending both with his own conscience and the uncovered fact which calls an entire thesis into question , Louisa gazed in fascination at the thought , then flinched from it . |
| 26 | Direct percutaneous access to the gall bladder has opened new avenues for the non-operative management of gall stone disease and is being increasingly used , particularly in elderly and high risk patients , for the treatment of acute cholecystitis , empyema and the perforated gall bladder with localised abscess formation . |
| 27 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 28 | We might , while comparing de Man 's absolutism to Jakobson 's relational categories , add that there is no sign of a distinction at all in de Man 's work between the poetic and the metalingual function . |
| 29 | And despite his smile and the teasing note in his voice , the look in his eyes said it was an order . |
| 30 | Difference in the calculated free energies of dissociation between a mutant and the wild-type receptor for various compounds . |