Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I suggested Jeanne and John tire Moby with a few chase and throw-fetch games in the garden before taking him out for a walk on an extendable lead . |
| 2 | The noise of wheels on uneven roads mingled with the voices of the elite as they alighted at their respective destinations and made their slow and stately way into the houses which had lights in every room from attic to cellar . |
| 3 | Iris had an American cousin staying with her and had been too busy dragging him round every art gallery and stately home in the county to have time for her . |
| 4 | Throughout South Somerset is the warm honey colour of the Hamstone used in generations of buildings in picturesque towns and villages as well as the grand and stately homes of the aristocracy . |
| 5 | Much of this is due to the magnificent Court carpets of the 16th and 17th centuries which grace Western museums , and the 18th and 19th-century masterpieces to be found in royal palaces and stately homes throughout the world . |
| 6 | Amidst the smoking , charred ruins and the roar of civil war , he will be unable to discern the grand and stately outlines of the future society . |
| 7 | The algorithm takes about 50 CPU seconds on a SUN SPARCStation II to order 180 probes and 1150 clones from the S.pombe YAC library , and 247 CPU seconds to order 667 probes and 2837 clones from the S.pombe cosmid library , including the phase of contig ordering and consistency checking . |
| 8 | The algorithm is fast , taking under a second to order 1150 clones and 180 probes from the S.pombe YAC library and under 3 seconds to order 667 probes and 2837 clones from the S.pombe cosmid library on SUN SPARCStation II . |
| 9 | At the time they were living — ‘ pigging it ’ was the term they used — in a large and lush apartment in the best residential section . |
| 10 | Far from the fertile cornfields and lush pastures of the southern counties , the poverty of North Country hill farmers had no parallel . |
| 11 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 12 | They probably include the nature of the intraluminal contents , the emotional and metabolic state of the patient , and the location of the recording devices . |
| 13 | Future plans for the Orangerie include the appointment of a professional director with financial acumen and specific experience of the art business . |
| 14 | Censorship of literature on political grounds was by no means new as Thompson 's history shows , and both Thompson and Noyce have demonstrated that the censorship of newspapers in particular ( especially those from the hard and radical left ) is common and endemic , so why this new and specific response by the Library Association ? |
| 15 | How can the Secretary of State conceivably claim that Her Majesty 's inspectorate is to be strengthened when its numbers are to be cut by two thirds and it is to be subject to clear and specific direction from the Secretary of State ? |
| 16 | From this recital of the general and specific duties of the doctor , it can be seen that the law in England , if understood and followed , is sensitive to the needs of patient and doctor alike . |
| 17 | This was followed by a series of seminars and briefings which focused on the policy issues raised by the research , and specific lessons for the improvement of urban policy and practice . |
| 18 | Because the glial growth factors and specific activators of the p185 erbB2 receptor are encoded by the same gene , we suggest that the formation of tumours derived from Schwann cells , and perhaps from other glial sources , is regulated by the supply of glial growth factors and by the activity of the p185 erbB2 receptor tyrosine kinase . |
| 19 | New points in the revised announcement 47 from the OPB include additional stress on the need for trustees to have considered all the options and the application should demonstrate that this has been done ; that they had sought independent legal advice ‘ from lawyers who do not advise the company on such matters ’ ( the OPB does not regard another partner in the same firm as ‘ independent ’ ) and the OPB would find it ‘ helpful ’ to see copies of correspondence between them ; and specific details of the information sent to members which should be contained in the application . |
| 20 | We have discussed earlier ( Chapter 2 ) inflation risk , which is common to all bonds , and specific risk in the form of either business risk or financial risk , which depends on the industry or corporation that issues the bond . |
| 21 | This fish has a deep body , narrowly compressed from side to side , very large eyes , prominent fins on both the upper and lower surfaces of the body , and a manlike tail . |
| 22 | setting upper and lower limits to the value of an attribute , are difficult to achieve . |
| 23 | These two amounts do not represent the upper and lower limits of the possible amount of the benefit — what is actually paid will of course depend on the possible bonuses added to the policy . |
| 24 | These two amounts do not represent the upper and lower limits of the possible amount of the benefit . |
| 25 | These two amounts do not represent the upper and lower limits of the possible amount of the benefit . |
| 26 | These two amounts do not represent the upper and lower limits of the possible amount of benefit . |
| 27 | The most plausible and financially acceptable solutions concern the middle and lower reaches of the Tay . |
| 28 | An epiphysis may be defined as ‘ a cartilaginous area present at each end of every long bone of the limbs , on the upper and lower faces of the vertebral bodies and in certain other locations where special processes are required for the attachment of muscles ’ ( Watson & Lowrey , 19512 ) . |
| 29 | The upper and lower corners of the crown are also more cut away and rounded ( Fig. 3.0 A-C , E ) . |
| 30 | The Bank 's other defence is that some of its recent studies on Africa — of which there are horribly many — suggest that the closing years of the 1980s did indeed see stronger growth and lower inflation in the countries it lent to . |