Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more mystical and far more intense and possesses passionate fervour : |
| 2 | The store had a peculiar and not altogether wholesome odour , a cross between a creek when the tide is out and the smell produced by the local sewage works . |
| 3 | There are several usable magic items here ( and some the adventurers wo n't be able to use ) , but their form is always unorthodox and sometimes rather unpleasant . |
| 4 | The average Briton who is not attempting to shed weight is consuming between 2,000 and 3,000 calories daily and only around 15 to 20 grams of fibre . |
| 5 | ‘ . In the W coastal dunes and heaths , estuaries , sandy , muddy and less often rocky seashores , rarely far inland ; in the E by brackish or more rarely freshwater lakes and inland seas . |
| 6 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 7 | … it seems that to pick £600 as a threshold for life governors because of the provisions of Gift Aid is to ignore a less brutal and therefore more acceptable way of achieving Life Governor status while still enabling the Institution to recover income tax . |
| 8 | It was a lament which registered the weakening of a moderate , socially philanthropic evangelicalism in the face of the more strident and ultimately more bigoted brand associated with Irving and Drummond outside the church and the Recordites within it . |
| 9 | Cane and wicker will look lighter than wood ; white-painted pieces will look less conspicuous and therefore less space-consuming than dark . |
| 10 | As in these two examples , the frame may occasionally be conspicuous and possibly highly ornate , but , more commonly in everyday living , objects as frames play on inconspicuous and normative cultural role . |
| 11 | I fired again , calm and yet so full of fear , so full of fear I forget how often I fired . |
| 12 | So far , they 'd been lucky ; the Atlantic weather systems had been kind , the days bright and warm , the nights calm and never completely dark . |
| 13 | Its prose , often breezy and sometimes disturbingly vatic , is a late reflection of Malory and Bunyan , and commonly more vigorous than refined . |
| 14 | The second , the Fawcett Award , was in recognition of an outstanding achievement in the field of women 's education and marked the impact of the ‘ Women in IT ’ programme aimed at returning unemployed and largely academically unqualified women to employment in the expanding field of Information Technology . |
| 15 | Consumers who saw their commitments enlarge so dramatically as a result of higher interest rates , who found themselves over-committed , and then found themselves unemployed and even less able to meet those commitments , will not rush out and spend money even if they have more of it . |
| 16 | Recurrent and continuing education is unplanned and only spasmodically available . |
| 17 | I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way . |
| 18 | But the essays are most demanding and ultimately most productive when they too occupy that position of liminality between the discourses that uneasily constitute us and our knowledge of the world . |
| 19 | THE Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland has two demanding and very often unrewarding jobs . |
| 20 | These experiences of directed observation are most necessary and valuable and interesting and not half enough of this kind of thing is done usually . |
| 21 | I find that his vitality , his sort of erm sense of rightness is incredibly interesting and much more rewarding than a lot of things that are going on on the Continent . |
| 22 | It is interesting and perhaps methodologically important that the Conversation Analytic approach tentatively provides support for the " we code " / " they code " distinction , independently of " given " notions of " we " and " they " . |
| 23 | For every French regional dish of international repute there are a hundred comparatively unknown , equally interesting and more easily adaptable to differing conditions . |
| 24 | A house that is furnished with good quality used furniture is generally much more interesting and more tastefully decorated than when twice the money is spent on new furniture that may not be a tenth of the quality . |
| 25 | These included the Foreign Office ( allegedly too pro-EEC and generally too prone to make diplomatic concessions at the cost of British interests ) , the Civil Service Department ( too accommodating during the civil servants ' pay strike in 1981 ) , the Department of Employment ( allegedly too ‘ soft ’ under Mr Prior ) , and Education ( allegedly too sympathetic to the education lobbies ) . |
| 26 | In typical instances , in the cities a widowed and formerly more prosperous grandmother might still be living in a larger , now empty house : thus a Liverpool labourer and saltpacker 's family moved in the with grandmother , who kept a secondhand clothes shop . |
| 27 | The way I would start forming a band would be to get a bass player and drummer first ; get a core of people who are on my wavelength , especially on the bass , and a drummer who 's got a really good right hand , almost like a jazz player , who can play light and not just hard . |
| 28 | Sunflower and grapeseed varieties are light and therefore particularly good for frying , leaving food crisp and free from grease . |
| 29 | The result : Very feminine and much more flattering with beautiful colour and condition . |
| 30 | It is always fresh and often pleasingly piquant . |