Example sentences of "[adv] [det] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever an estate agent 's political leanings , professionally each and every one must be expressing surprise , delight and relief , ’ said Sir Glen Hickman , marketing director of Humberts . |
| 2 | These can be a useful standby , though they 're rather few and far between across the country . |
| 3 | In a speech last night in Birmingham , he noted that , in the end , ‘ dissenting voices were remarkably few and remarkably quiet … |
| 4 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 5 | There are photographs of him taken on this and other trips : Eliot smiling sleepily at the camera , wearing a white cap and sunglasses , smoking a cigar and wearing a pink shirt and blue pullover . |
| 6 | No , I know , but we better that and then we specify they 're our modules . |
| 7 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 8 | FOR SOMEONE who wrote so little and whose chief recreation — picking up men -involved a high degree of furtiveness , J R Ackerley 's life is surprisingly well-documented . |
| 9 | It is little wonder that fundamentalist sects have a field day welcoming in disillusioned people who have been put off Christianity by forms of Anglicanism which offer so little and demand nothing . |
| 10 | We learn so little and forget so much . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She says you must both be insane to want to have me here , when I can pay so little and have no means of making more . |
| 12 | One reason is they have drawn so little and therefore can give so little . |
| 13 | The most striking difference between them is in the amount they wrote — Beccaria so little and Bentham so much . |
| 14 | He was ashamed because he had produced so little and tears began to roll down his face . |
| 15 | It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ? |
| 16 | So that and them |
| 17 | Oh we had whistles , and strangely enough , very seldom did we use them , simply because there were other traffic about that time if you were a long way away , er you might be nearly to , if you blew your whistle , there were nobody to hear you , I mean people in houses , and they were only few and far between . |
| 18 | I suspect that our generation , with so few and such honourable exceptions , knows less than theirs did . |
| 19 | ‘ Gervase would not ask the way , and the street lamps were so few and far between that it was impossible to use our map . |
| 20 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 21 | I have to down this and get to the House in half an hour . |
| 22 | Today , sitting in his cosy attic studio in south-west London 's genteel Mortlake , relaxed and tanned from a recent family trip to Sardinia , Stephen Street has done all this and more . |
| 23 | But I had only half and where 's the other half gone ? |
| 24 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 25 | Only this and the hissing of the wind . |
| 26 | Walk along this and stay on it till it disappears at the top ridge . |
| 27 | The popular slogan ‘ This we will maintain ’ , that is the union with Britain , can be equally applied to the religious and moral values the loyalists pride so much and which they see as embodied in the protestant — loyalist statelet , with its appropriate state apparatus of coercion and alternative paramilitary units . |
| 28 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
| 29 | She gives out so much and has so much to teach us . ’ |
| 30 | Suddenly there were too many women realising that their happiness had to be taken at the expense of their men 's — men who had promised so much and could not now deliver the goods ; just like her father five years before . |