Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunapipi represents the Earth Mother and the cult is probably the most important and widely spread of any in northern Australia . |
| 2 | One of the most capable and widely respected of radio managers in Canada is Sid Boyling , with whom I had the pleasure of working , back in those early days of broadcasting at 1OAB where he was chief announcer . |
| 3 | Solomon " Jesus " Hawala , the former head of PLAN security and widely accused of such crimes , was appointed chief of staff of the new Namibian Defence Force , despite the reported opposition of Nujoma and Geingob . |
| 4 | Until these persons can be segregated and properly disposed of as displaced persons they should be accorded the same treatment as the forces they accompany . " |
| 5 | He was forced to resign , and eventually convicted of four theft and seven forgery charges . |
| 6 | The bank started to unravel in 1988 when BCCI executives were arrested in Florida and eventually convicted of laundering cocaine profits for Colombian drug barons . |
| 7 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
| 8 | Whereas we treat human excreta as something to be neutralized with chemicals and politely disposed of , the Chinese see it as one more resource . |
| 9 | But it was also the year that the class structure of the underground , under pressure from a voracious music industry , ensured that a sizeable enclosure was partitioned off , in front of the stage , for the great and expensively attired of the new aristocracy . |
| 10 | I put another case in front of it , an empty one , and suddenly thought of an old story in a childhood book . |
| 11 | But such knowledge would not be systematically imparted , with a view of long-term utility , nor with the aim of enabling the student to adapt what he has learned to new and hitherto unthought of situations . |
| 12 | The image of the island is to be found and cherished , above all , in the stories it has told about itself , and perhaps believed of itself , for nearly half a century since it emerged into the troubled and hungry peace of 1945 . |
| 13 | He suspected that , inside herself , she was totally bewildered and perhaps despaired of ever finding Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 14 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 15 | These are the sea slugs and they are among the most beautiful and highly coloured of all invertebrates in the sea . |
| 16 | LC-derived samples were greatly enriched in I-A α -chain and greatly depleted of K1 mRNA when compared with amounts of KC RNA that gave similar amounts of E-cadherin PCR product . |
| 17 | The Industrial Revolution and especially spread of the railways which enabled large numbers to migrate from country to town , meant that many more people were ‘ going out on pleasure bent ’ . |
| 18 | To do what I do well , be proud of it , and watch it knowing that it was bloody good and entirely born of me . ’ |
| 19 | For them , the social order is structured and not composed of discrete and shifting groups : there are real and deep inequalities between classes which can not be easily eliminated or resolved by recourse to a competition , by groups or individuals , for political power . |
| 20 | A sheep if you buy a sheepskin coat from a market stall then it should be sheepskin not made of manmade fibres and not made of any other animal . |
| 21 | And although Craddock 's warring with his granddaughter was usually out of earshot and not spoken of , today he had complained . |
| 22 | There 's a In in the weekend review with the Daily Mail today , Bonny Langford is sitting there saying all I want to be is a women , and not thought of as a little girl . |
| 23 | This should ensure that none of them is eliminated in an early count and thus deprived of the benefit of a surplus transferred from any more popular running-mate . |
| 24 | The most famous and best loved of all Sam 's wild pets was a swan which he found one day lying prostrate by the side of Hury Reservoir , too weak even to stand . |
| 25 | This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’ |
| 26 | It is a real mountain town , though for all its remoteness one of the oldest and best patronized of the Pyrenean spas , once , as I have said , managed by the monks of Saint-Savin . |
| 27 | In Paris , its diplomats proved to be the most methodical , hardest working and best co-ordinated of all the Cambodians . |
| 28 | Raleigh International ( formerly Operation Raleigh ) ( 071 351 7541 ) is the biggest and best known of these organisations : nearly 6,300 young adventurers from 17 to 25 have taken part since 1984 . |
| 29 | The first and best known of these , which may conveniently be referred to as ‘ horizontal ’ devolution , involves the setting up of a machinery of government exercising jurisdiction over a particular geographical area and having powers , within that area of a semi-autonomous nature . |
| 30 | Church of the Holy Sepulchre is said to be the oldest building in Northampton and the largest and best preserved of the medieval round churches in the Country . |