Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they talk about work of this type , policemen stress the importance of remaining detached and emotionally cold . |
| 2 | ( e ) She appeared to her father to be disorientated and , according to the original evidence of Dr. F. , to be ‘ drowsy , detached and not fully compos mentis. ’ ( f ) The matrimonial history of father and mother suggests that Miss T. 's mother is a deeply committed Jehovah 's Witness , who would regard her daughter 's eternal salvation as far more important , and more in her daughter 's best interests , than lengthening her terrestrial life span . |
| 3 | Charles felt detached and rather sad . |
| 4 | That 's not to me consistent with a view that we have remained detached and apart and able to take whatever decisions we like regardless of our partners . ’ |
| 5 | The account he gave of it was detailed , detached and distinctly unenthusiastic . |
| 6 | Many such adopters are anchored firmly in their beliefs ; they are open-minded and not contented with stereotypes or a superficial view of society . |
| 7 | These included ensuring the consultations would be ‘ meaningful , open-minded and fully taken account of before the final decision ( on closures ) is made ’ . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that I feel strongly about this issue , I remain open-minded and by seeing as much as is attainable my ideas will develop and so determine the kind of practitioner I hope to be . |
| 9 | Remember , Miss Carter wanted me to go pupil-teaching and then take a teacher 's course , well that 's one thing I could do ; it 's not too late , I 'm only twenty-two . |
| 10 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 11 | The original training skipper , John Bullock , was replaced in October by Pete Goss , an ex-Royal Marine and single-handed transatlantic yachtsman , He now works with freelance instructor and first mate Nick Booth . |
| 12 | When this was done opposite effects emerged for generally risky and generally non-risky junctions . |
| 13 | To try to make money by switching currencies according to exchange rates is considered risky and not in general the purpose of these accounts . |
| 14 | Manual assembly with ‘ stand alone ’ automated equipment was less expensive , less risky and more flexible — and was therefore a better fit for the business . |
| 15 | She had known warmer climes and situations more civilized and now , in her old age , needed and expected to be warm . |
| 16 | If reparation were more consistently pursued we should have a much more civilized and morally acceptable penal system than the present one . |
| 17 | Instead it would be an expression of preferences , indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite the name of the first-preferred candidate , the figure 2 opposite the name of the second-preferred and so on . |
| 18 | It is among the least publicity-seeking and therefore among the least well known of the major firms , but enjoys a very high reputation within the executive search industry itself . |
| 19 | Indeed , the very property of being conscious might undo the force of these arrangements since it is the characteristic of conscious thought to change , work-over and constantly review its operations against the datum of the senses and the inner needs of the organism . |
| 20 | Haydn Gwynne , looking uncannily like Meryl Streep , makes a rather better-groomed Robyn than expected , versatile , spirited and wholly watchable . |
| 21 | This set contains definitive accounts of the Sonatas for Cello , Flue , Oboe , Clarinet & Violin ( provided you do n't mind the occasional rough edge from |Menuhin ) , as well as a spirited and supremely Gallic performance of the Trio for Piano , Oboe and Bassoon ( a splendid very French-sounding beast on this recording ) , the Piano and Wind Sextet and much else besides . |
| 22 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 23 | I 'm very cross at the way you dismissed PagePlus as ‘ extraordinarily unbalanced , primitive and even quirky ’ ( February issue ) . |
| 24 | It stems , therefore , from something primitive and far removed from almost everything else in the Old Testament , with the exception of an even stranger tale in Exodus 4.24–6 . |
| 25 | In 1918 Eliot wrote of the need for artists to be at once very primitive and very sophisticated ; he praised Lewis 's Tarr as being ‘ like our civilization criticized , our acrobatics animadverted upon adversely , by an orang-outang of genius , Tarzan of the Apes ’ . |
| 26 | That humanity will find something to replace war is certain , but it will never come to light until the suffocating mass of claims based on unbelievably primitive and stubbornly adhered-to religion and superstition , is swept away in its entirety . |
| 27 | He had the advantage of being a poet himself and a member of a circle of respectable poets , of whom the best was Simon Dach , at Königsberg ; he had wide musical knowledge , not only of the Italian masters of monody , as he reveals in one of his greatest songs , ‘ O der rauhen Grausamkeit ’ : but of other foreign song , French and even Polish , from which he borrowed with due acknowledgement . |
| 28 | But today it is entirely French and justifiably proud of its thoroughly French style of wines . |
| 29 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 30 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |