Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interest of Hodgson 's argument lay in two things : the pedigree he sketched for his contention about the greater economy and productivity of free labour and the comparative dimension historically and geographically of his argument . |
| 2 | The number one will automatically light up as soon as we activate the circuit and the current increases gradually as the numbers get progressively higher . |
| 3 | It is a great mistake : Barbara has to give up her small tress-shop and the cosy flat above where Percy liked to come round in the evenings ; while Percy , lacking that place of resort , now leaves her alone and goes out to play billiards . |
| 4 | Duns is a grimly handsome little town and the only place nearer than Selkirk that has a radio studio . |
| 5 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 6 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 7 | Mr. Barry Jones : Does the Secretary of State accept that the south Wales coalfield is apprehensive , especially in the light of the 1,500 jobs at the Cynheidre and Marine collieries and the 500 jobs elsewhere that are under review ? |
| 8 | And the hot bit right as well . |
| 9 | In the event sequence is shown the long-term mean , the linear trend , the well-defined cycle , and the intermittent signal so that a typical sample period as shown will produce statistics which are biased with respect to the whole sequence . |
| 10 | In 1968 , the national breed absorbed the South and West Norwegian ( SVF ) , a red or dun dairy breed , usually polled but sometimes horned and with a colour range almost as extensive as that of the Jersey , which had been formed in 1947 by combining the polled red Lyngdal , the Vestland Red Polled and the Vestland fjord , a dun , red or black breed , usually horned , which had originated between 1866 and 1895 from the horned black Hørdaland and the polled grey Møre and Ramsdal . |
| 11 | The perennial fascination of Karajan 's 1954 recordings of Mozart 's Così fan tutte and Strauss 's Ariadne auf Naxos lies partly in the exquisitely cast singing and playing , partly in the use Legge and Karajan made of studio conditions to create performances of radical intimacy , the music-making addressed to the microphone and the private listener rather than belted out across some putative theatrical footlights . |
| 12 | Sources of welfare are the family , the voluntary sector and the private market rather than central or local government agencies . |
| 13 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 14 | There would be no difficulty in principle both in improving the theory tests and in extending both them and the practical tests so as to include , for example , score-reading and harmonization at the keyboard , aspects of the university courses in music which many students now find very difficult indeed . |
| 15 | Its first effects fell on the landowners , the tenant-farmer and the Irish peasant rather than the agricultural labourer , who , like his urban contemporary , benefited from lower food prices . |
| 16 | As a trivial example , one student may have scored five out of ten on his arithmetic test by answering the five additions correctly and the five subtractions incorrectly while his/her friend is given the same score for precisely the converse performance ! |
| 17 | This change also made imperative the development of links with employers , Youth Training providers and the tertiary colleges so that the quality of transition for young people was as effective into the post-16 area as it had been throughout their school career . |
| 18 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 19 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 20 | His structuralist theory puts the stress as primary on the classificatory coding in totemism and the intellectual component rather than on the emotional ( or the social and emotional , as in Durkheim ) . |
| 21 | However , it is not possible to analyse satisfactorily both the coarse and the fine fractions fully once the split has been achieved . |
| 22 | Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing . |
| 23 | Rain , driving perpendicularly into the ground in long sharp needles , and the sweet smell afterwards and the feeling that life was worth loving after all . |
| 24 | Data sources are imperfect , data handling skills in short supply and the cause-and-effect processes long and complex . |