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 | ‘ But you have n't any , ’ she mimicked , and gently and competently dealt with the wound . |
| 4 | Answer the three questions below and then look at the photograph on the right . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The renegade comes slinking in and simperingly confides to the general his ability to lead his security forces to Sister Chiang . |
| 7 | And they poured the water and that held the heat in and then bent to the shape . |
| 8 | So now , unless you go in and actually bang on the counter , they 'll give you the advice of their tied erm agency . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some from the carriage could jump down and then slither into the lines they must form . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Women are peculiarly fitted for the onerous task of patiently and skilfully caring for the patient in faithful obedience to the physician 's orders . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 25 | It was as if an angry giant had come along and just clipped off the trees , " said Eva . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Or modules may be read individually and automatiaclly updated to a new version . |
| 29 | Accordingly , I am invoicing you for £75 ( and Vassar separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separately and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract , a copy of which is attached . |
| 30 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |