Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The pragmatist might acknowledge this point but would offer the further thought that , under normal circumstances , it is unlikely that a flea 's stray garment could be mistaken for anything else , and that the flea. its garments and any other intimately associated paraphernalia would be more sensibly and helpfully handled as a single record .
2 It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions .
3 The golden rule is to begin gently and not to plunge into a sudden regime of vigorous exercise .
4 ‘ But you have n't any , ’ she mimicked , and gently and competently dealt with the wound .
5 Answer the three questions below and then look at the photograph on the right .
6 They each feature a huge female smile hemmed in and otherwise cropped by a gigantic soda bottle in one instance and a medley of hands and legs in the other .
7 The renegade comes slinking in and simperingly confides to the general his ability to lead his security forces to Sister Chiang .
8 And they poured the water and that held the heat in and then bent to the shape .
9 So now , unless you go in and actually bang on the counter , they 'll give you the advice of their tied erm agency .
10 Sometimes if it 's completely wrong you start over , or you have to get in and actually wade into the paper and do some design work on it , but the other thing is allowing a certain sense of experimentation .
11 Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop .
12 Second , most people who are in work are keeping their heads down and not looking for a new job , so there is less competition from those in work .
13 The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop .
14 The way the sequencer has been set up is to allow three voices and one drum track to be laid down and then used as a backing for either the regular guitar sound or another synth sound .
15 Some from the carriage could jump down and then slither into the lines they must form .
16 Wat Tyler was struck down and fatally injured by the sword of the loyal Lord Mayor of London , whose name is commemorated in time-honoured fashion .
17 Here is ‘ … a jumble of objects if ever there was one , difficult to pin down and eminently suited to a process of assiduous piecing together ’ ( ibid , p. 19 ) .
18 The commander himself is not eligible as a target — he usually keeps his head down and only appears over the rim of his armoured command turret to shoot his weapon .
19 As a tourist spectacle it welcomed over 3.5 million visitors in 1988 alone and now ranks as the North West 's premier tourist attraction .
20 It is , however , the case that any sentence other than the first in a fragment of discourse , will have the whole of its interpretation forcibly constrained by the preceding text , not just those phrases which obviously and specifically refer to the preceding text , like the aforementioned .
21 Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region .
22 The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions .
23 I have just seen in a saleroom catalogue a single manuscript leaf from an early fourteenth century Bible , patiently and diligently written by a scribe in Southern France , illuminated , historiated and decorated' in gold , red and blue .
24 Women are peculiarly fitted for the onerous task of patiently and skilfully caring for the patient in faithful obedience to the physician 's orders .
25 and he made me feel right guilty yesterday I , I had to buy a packet about three o'clock , so I did n't have any until three o'clock and then talk to the cat and I thought no it 's no good , Margaret I 'll have to hide this packet up
26 In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground .
27 It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed .
28 It was as if an angry giant had come along and just clipped off the trees , " said Eva .
29 But that 's how cash was counted in those days and erm , the waybill was marked to agree with a man 's statement of what his cash added up to and then the cash next day was counted up bolt because there was Priory Heath to take care of , although that was n't a media when I first went down there , that opened later on , but there was the two got to be married together and then conveyed to the bank the next day , or , on the Monday if it was a Saturday or Sunday .
30 In such an archetypal world , where ‘ good ’ is constantly and insecurely balanced in an eternal struggle against ‘ evil ’ , the objective explication of the rituals and symbols which surround and mystify police work can seem tantamount to a treasonable act .
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