Example sentences of "and [art] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Initially the lowest-priced system was offered at £300,000 , the next most expensive £600,000 and the most expensive priced at £1 million , with little relationship to performance , claimed Hubbard .
2 In this manner many alternative configurations can be rapidly explored by the operation and the most suitable chosen for more detailed study .
3 In a similar way , when a projectile is fired into a tank of liquid , such as the fuel tank of an aeroplane , it is the exit hole which is much the largest and the most difficult to seal since the shock waves which are readily transmitted through the fluid may burst the back of the tank .
4 The induction of newly qualified teachers into the local education business community must be a priority for TPS with partnerships as these teachers will be potentially the most innovative , and the most important to influence at an early stage .
5 So , one key feature of these early surveys was the assumption that the greater the absolute size of the population studied and the closer this approximated to the total population of the country , the better .
6 Higher spending practices were rewarded for their inefficiency and the more efficient penalised by lower budget allocations .
7 And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson .
8 Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines .
9 Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines .
10 Tiguary , at the north tip of the island , could muster about five hundred men ; from the length of the northern shore , the chiefs there could raise another four hundred ; on Oualie , Dulé could promise a force nearly two hundred strong of a mixed crowd of men , a core of maroons from islands in the archipelago colonised already , some redlegs , or tallow men , renegades to their own people and the more ardent to fight for that very apostasy ( some of them former prisoners and others who had been press-ganged into sailing service ) .
11 If , as the above evidence suggests and as Karlsson has argued , sufferers from psychosis — whether we call it schizophrenia or affective disorder — and the highly creative do in fact share the same genes , then it may be asked : what , in psychological terms , is inherited ?
12 The only difference between them and the psychotically ill seems to be the greater intellectual control they retain in managing the freely associated ideas which an equally weak filtering system allows into consciousness .
13 The day of the flight dawned bright and sunny , frosty to start with and a little hazy looking into the sun , but good VFR weather .
14 It is a work of bold gestures , strong , often dancing , rhythms , a sturdy sense of structure and counterpoint , and a very Viennese feel for melody , coloured too by his Jewish background .
15 These include a macro lens at the touch of a button — great for capturing details of flowers — and a fully automatic built in flash which gives out a pre-flash emission to minimise ‘ red eye ’ .
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