Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then on the slope above , there was a snort from a watchful hind and in a second every beast was in flight , careering down the hillside , leaping , bounding , in jerky yet fluid motion . |
| 2 | State prosecutors on Sept. 24 filed a further seven counts of tax evasion against her , claiming that she had failed to pay taxes amounting to US$205 million on her income for 1985-86 and on the estate left by her late husband . |
| 3 | However , jewellery may be stolen , cattle may die and grain deteriorates in quality with the passage of time , thus wealth in these forms is inherently risky and to a certain extent illiquid , i.e. not usually suitable for instant transfer or use . |
| 4 | We calculated 95% confidence intervals with exact error factors for Poisson mean for numbers less than 30 and with the asymptotic error factor approximation for larger numbers . |
| 5 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 6 | Like this and with a flap |
| 7 | Paddy was well aware of this and with an imperceptible shake of his head , continued sardonically — |
| 8 | I live close to the Union Canal and use its towpath for cycling , so my comments will relate to this and to the neighbouring Forth-Clyde Canal . |
| 9 | ( 6 ) If over 49 per cent of the voting rights could be obtained , the offer document must contain specific and prominent reference to this and to the fact that if the offer succeeds the offeror will be free , subject to Rule 36.3 ( which prohibits purchases during a period of 12 months after the end of the offer period ) , to acquire further shares without incurring an obligation to make a mandatory offer ( Rule 36.6 ) . |
| 10 | This will be fine so long as I obey the ‘ point cam moving rule ’ while doing this and for every move thereafter . |
| 11 | The dominance of the agro-export business and the patterns of land ownership are primarily to blame for this and for the abandonment of traditional , more ecologically sound , forms of cultivation and pest control . |
| 12 | What I want to , for you to do , is to pass this and for the C E C to look at providing some education specifically to the administration and the running of branches . |
| 13 | Research has invariably failed to recognize this and as a consequence failed to approach its task in an explicitly neutral and scientific way , i.e. to account for the nature and incidence of particular forms of adult/child interactions and their consequences . |
| 14 | They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand . |
| 15 | Ignoring the bargaining strengths of both parties , there is no clear reason why a vendor should be willing to agree to this and as a matter of practice should establish the order of priority of satisfaction of liabilities within the terms and conditions of the sale agreement . |
| 16 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 17 | The 15.3% swing against them in Torbay is indicative both of this and of a more generalised dissatisfaction with the policies of the council . |
| 18 | The best example of this and of the way in which Switchboard tends to mirror the mainstream gay ( and still mainly male ) community lies in the organization 's response to AIDS . |
| 19 | He gestured his dissent at this and in no time the crowd were clamouring for the umpire to reverse the decision , which he did . |
| 20 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 21 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 22 | Steroids were begun soon after this and in the absence of further relapse it is possible that they have had an effect on the disease . |
| 23 | The exterior work is largely restored but the interior decoration in the apse is mainly original and consists of marble , porphyry and mother-of-pearl inlay on the lower part of the walls and mosaic above this and in the semi-dome . |
| 24 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 25 | Lord Aldington opposed this and in the end Mr Justice Morritt agreed with him . |
| 26 | From this and from the particle 's measured lifetime , physicists at CERN have deduced that there are only three families of fundamental particles . |
| 27 | asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times . |
| 28 | However , housing conditions were much improved by this and by the clearance of some 700 slum dwellings . |
| 29 | In this and throughout the rest of the issue , I wish you good reading . |
| 30 | He looked young , a little boy , as he said this and like a little boy who has been thrashed by playground bullies and can not do anything in return but hate them . |