Example sentences of "[adj] and have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , including the Queen herself , by her own later account , were happy that it was so French and had so little Iranian personality to it . |
| 2 | I ‘ m sure you will all be aware of the projected plan to allow building on the land known as Curriemuirend and the action group that was formed to rally support to oppose this and has effectively done so . |
| 3 | I 'll try to make it brief because Bob has er mentioned this and has pretty well er all party support to , to the savings , er the reduction of two percent in the erm , it 's not quite devastating but following the er drastic restructuring of the , of the department in the last two or three years , is quite significant erm er I , I , and I think that er we must thank the , the director of and , and er volunteering if you like because in 's report erm th , th , these , erm the , the savings . |
| 4 | She added : ‘ We have had so many inquiries about this and have carefully verified it and we want to set their minds at rest . ’ |
| 5 | The water looks clear and has long green weeds waving in it . |
| 6 | The basic elements of the station were already clear and have never changed . |
| 7 | These tools have often proved to be too language-specific and have often highlighted our need to re-evaluate concepts of language and communication . |
| 8 | The movements themselves are quite poetic and have often been likened to clouds floating in the sky . |
| 9 | This species , which is low-growing and has unusually shaped leaves , is , however , attractive . |
| 10 | Very hard to separate from Swift , even in good light , but is distinctly paler brown and has more conspicuous white throat patch , rather paler forehead and slight contrast between paler secondaries and rest of wing ; also slightly different outline , especially broader head , and slower wing-beats . |
| 11 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 12 | Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class . |
| 13 | The car was , after all , three years old and had over 50,000 miles on the clock . |
| 14 | The loss of amenities caused to an elderly person as a result of his injuries can be more severe precisely because he is old and has already suffered some impairment of his activities on that account . |
| 15 | She had her first operation when she was 21 days old and has never experienced the life of a healthy child . |
| 16 | These changes , in the piecemeal fashion in which the Act is being implemented , will come into force in September 1993 and have already led to what Adrian Randall , finance director of the Cancer Research Campaign , calls , ‘ some howlers ’ . |
| 17 | Their freedom to pursue careers and to be liberated from child-care and housework depends on the labour of another woman who , although financially independent , is actually struggling and has yet more work to do when she gets home . |
| 18 | The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy . |
| 19 | This decision has not proved popular and has frequently been distinguished . |
| 20 | Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise . |
| 21 | As the Lada sped towards St Petersburg , the hostages were being moved into a spacious townhouse that was now empty and had once been a district governor 's home . |
| 22 | While courses such as intravenous therapy updates are readily acceptable and have immediately observable results in terms of clinical care delivery , less tangible skills such as teaching need to be built up gradually if they are to be successful , another factor which may affect motivation . |
| 23 | The morphology of type II focus was comprised of tightly packed cells , which were extensively piled upon one another and had comparatively smooth edges ( Fig 1A ) . |
| 24 | Future estimates will probably prove more reliable and have more predictive value . |
| 25 | no no no , you could be very very clever very very clever and have absolutely no common sense , you might be , still be a very clever person , be brilliant at maths but have absolutely no common sense . |
| 26 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 27 | Other immigrants are less fortunate and have very little capital . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ All the changes I have made to the course are straightforward and have really been designed visually rather than penally — in other words , if someone is playing well , they will be rewarded . ’ |
| 29 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |
| 30 | In the late Seventies the Ashleys were travelling around so much and had so many different houses that it was hard for them to know where home was . |