Example sentences of "and the [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the rest of the Bolivian economy slumps and the poor actually get poorer , the coca-barons are doing well . |
| 2 | Indeed the gradual incorporation of the eastern Ukraine into Muscovy between the 1640s and the 1670s actually aggravated the problem . |
| 3 | The most common error by solicitors concerns the incorrect calculation of fees , and the following also appear frequently : ( 1 ) Failure to sign certified copies ; ( 2 ) Failure to sign application forms ; ( 3 ) Using a facsimile signature on application forms ; ( 4 ) Leaving uncompleted spaces in building society and other mortgages ; ( 5 ) Failure to include , on application for first registration , a land charges search against the seller ; ( 6 ) Failure to lodge a probate or letters of administration , or to mark the abstract thereof as examined . |
| 4 | But times change and the only locally based fishing-boats now fish for scallops , crabs and lobsters , none of which produce any offal or discards . |
| 5 | Pioneered Channel 4 's coverage of Women 's Football and developed and produced the outdoor adventure series ‘ Conquer the Arctic ’ for Channel 4 , ‘ Chris Evert 's Wimbledon Farewell ’ for the BBC and the two best selling Nick Faldo Golf Instructional videos . |
| 6 | We also did comparisons between the placebo group and the two actively treated groups combined , and separate analyses for adults and children ( aged 12 or under ) . |
| 7 | Modigliani did not like her and the two often quarrelled . |
| 8 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 9 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 10 | There seem to be two main differences here and the first undoubtedly influences the second . |
| 11 | Between us we harness two teams and go out with one of us sitting in a sledge driven by Tove , one on the back of Odd-Knut 's Sno-Go snow scooter , and the other tentatively riding the second sledge . |
| 12 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 13 | ‘ You must feel it yourselves , with one of your archbishops excommunicated , and the other newly appointed and barely back from his own consecration . |
| 14 | Eliot moves from such a primitive organization to discussing Greek drama , following the movement of Harrison , Cornford , and the other anthropologically influenced classical scholars whom he had read . |
| 15 | For breathless , white-knuckled moments the five of us clung there while the rhythm abated , then three of us laughed loudly , one of us scowled , and the other nearly lost his liquids . |
| 16 | Two were hit — one with an axe — and the other probably died from a spear injury . ’ |
| 17 | It is also extending its fleet maintenance division and now has two service centres , one in Coventry and the other recently opened in Leamington . |
| 18 | For example the number of times that one or other proton has a and the other then has A would be a number that I shall call unc Numbers unc are similarly defined . |
| 19 | There are situations , and there are types of relationships , in which one of these purposes becomes dominant , and the other hardly matters at all . |
| 20 | He portrays Madeline and Mrs. Proudie as not very ‘ nice ’ — one too fond of using her femininity and the other hardly seeming to recognise it — which could be seen as a criticism of any woman who dared to question her accepted niche in society . |
| 21 | Two mounted arc-lights , one directed downwards from the top of the bank and the other precariously planted on the edge of the plateau , illuminated its stark decrepitude . |
| 22 | We have two sons , one already away pursuing a career and the other about to take A levels . |
| 23 | Those are trials in which the one defendant makes accusations against the other , and the other often makes even worse accusations against the one . |
| 24 | ( Many popular expositions of parallelism , formulaic poetry , word-pairs and the like implicitly encourage us to believe that we do . ) |
| 25 | While bears , wolves and the like undoubtedly eat mountain goats , they probably do so through scavenging for carcasses rather than through direct predation . |
| 26 | If their commitment and reliability are seen to be less than that of a paid worker then the stereotype will be reinforced and the many totally committed and reliable volunteers will be misjudged . |
| 27 | During the 1930s the world had seen considerable political and military changes , already the dictators of Europe were making territorial gains , and the Japanese also had designs on mainland Asia , invading Manchuria and waging a savage war on China . |
| 28 | I know the D does as well but the fourths and the fifths always remain perfect . |
| 29 | The ensuing chaos was almost life-threatening and the timid always ran the risk of reboarding without food or being left behind when the train steamed out . |
| 30 | The accused would , however , be guilty if the lease already existed and the accused dishonestly obtained an assignment of it . |