Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 11 May 1559 Knox preached his great and wholly inflammatory sermon in St John 's Kirk in Perth , producing mob riot not only in the church itself but also in the Black and Grey Friars and the Carthusian monastery , all of which were sacked . |
| 2 | Joseph Barnes , the Bolton captain , was the main motivator of this match , and latterly organised events in the North-West for other sports . |
| 3 | Ron Pickering , who dies on February 13 , aged 60 , was one of the most charismatic and widely respected figures in British sport . |
| 4 | The occasion of Macleod 's fury was the process by which Lord Home had come to be chosen as Leader of the party and thereby Prime Minister in succession to Harold Macmillan . |
| 5 | This resulted in high profits and thereby increased investment in industry . |
| 6 | SunSoft , which foresees new multiple binaries in Unix 's future , is anxious to stress all the current and mostly anticipated differences in its system that independent software vendors have to take account of , claiming developers want their programs running at maximum performance rather than in some watered down but politically correct fashion . |
| 7 | Their naivety in believing the IDA 's promise that the dumping would only be short-term soon became apparent as other communities resisted proposed dumping in their areas and the Nohoval farmers began their long and eventually successful campaign in the courts . |
| 8 | A season which started with punctures , a turbo failure and eventually third place in Galway in February improved marginally with an accident and second position on the Circuit of Ireland at Easter . |
| 9 | The Carrera 4 on damp surfaces is probably the fastest and most predictable car in the world . |
| 10 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 11 | They affect the poorest and most vulnerable families in the land . |
| 12 | The Treasury has responsibility for the health of the economy ; the Social Services Department has responsibility for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country . |
| 13 | This arrangement represented ‘ the same top-down white patriarchal model of leadership that surrounds us in our daily life in capitalist society and most left-wing organizations in this country . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell him you are going to dine at Auguste 's before being taken to see La Traviata , ’ Madame instructed , ‘ by one of the richest and most influential men in Boston . ’ |
| 15 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 16 | Timpani give the best tone and most distinct pitch in the middle and upper half of their compass . |
| 17 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 18 | The result — The Romance of British Wool — will be performed in one of the world 's largest and most prestigious stores in October ( 8–18 ) . |
| 19 | Swords were the rarest and most prestigious weapons in early Anglo-Saxon England ( Davidson 1962 ) . |
| 20 | It was built for a rich banker in the early sixteenth-century but is more renowned as the home of the Societa del Giardino , the oldest and most prestigious club in Milan which has used the palazzo since 1818 . |
| 21 | Against the worst and most incompetent government in living memory . |
| 22 | Listed as one of the world 's finest hotels , and in a beautiful position overlooking the Chao Phya River , the Oriental is one of the oldest and most famous hotels in the East . |
| 23 | IT IS one of the oldest and most famous hospitals in the world but if the Government follows the recommendations in the Tomlinson report , St Bartholomew 's in London will soon close . |
| 24 | 'But I want you to know tonight , ’ said Martin Luther King in his final and most famous speech in Memphis in 1968 , ‘ that we , as a people will get to the promised land . ’ |
| 25 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 26 | Heading the line-up in the 350cc class is Steve Carter , of Bury St Edmunds , one of the fastest and most consistent riders in the country . |
| 27 | America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world . |
| 28 | The first and most critical stage in his exercise of power was the formulation of a " will " . |
| 29 | Northern Foods was one of the largest and most successful companies in the country , with a steady record of expansion which was beginning to attract foreign investment . |
| 30 | The Tawneys ( ancestors of the great historian R. H. Tawney ) were one of the oldest and most successful families in the community , for they married into the brewers who dominated eighteenth-century Oxford . |