Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the beauty and ecological importance of this area of southern California are clear enough and just three months ago , George Bush , a former oil man , banned further oil development here as part of a general moratorium that covered several coastal areas . |
| 2 | This will enable us to reach better and more cogent conclusions about the future needs for monitoring and regulation that we will be able to share with the public and with the DTI . |
| 3 | Lesions that do not blanch on pressure ( which are often dark in colour and raised ) tend to respond poorly to pulsed dye lasers : better and more rapid responses can often be achieved with alternative lasers such as the frequency doubled neodymium yttrium aluminium garnet laser in conjunction with an automated delivery system . |
| 4 | If India 's government is persuaded that warming will produce better and more reliable monsoons , then it might decide that the interests of its burgeoning population would be better served by global warming than by attempts to hold it in check . |
| 5 | THE long-held assumption that beef producers are today breeding better and more productive cattle and that farm management is of the highest order , received a setback yesterday at a seminar for veterinarians organised by Edinburgh University 's veterinary faculty . |
| 6 | Or the men who built the ancient city of Pompeii and constructed gardens inside and out 2000 years ago ? |
| 7 | Killer cover , killer photos inside and totally good articles . |
| 8 | Would you like to see sound edifying , Bible based TV programmes , including directly evangelistic ones in the place of the morally and socially destructive ones we all deplore ? |
| 9 | A media theory for the 21 st century needs to consider these changed circumstances and , more fundamentally , whether we have come , or been led , to expect too much from means of mass communication which are so obviously and primarily economic enterprises with too few available resources to tackle the range of issues that occupy today 's citizen . |
| 10 | Thus , when we are told that everything is ‘ OK ’ we prefer to believe that this is so , although what people say can often contain far deeper and more subtle feelings and personal emotions . |
| 11 | By contrast , the manufacturing sector suffered much deeper and more sustained losses of output ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 12 | Lepine was first seen at the school between four o'clock and about twenty minutes past , sitting in the registrar 's office on a bench near the door , obstructing the way of students . |
| 13 | Crown cars are used less and less these days , other than in very rural areas . |
| 14 | From now on , the aerodrome is open to visitors , but by prior permission only and only aerial carriages of some distinction and age will be permitted to alight . |
| 15 | Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular . |
| 16 | Theorists have constantly and explicitly used antitheses such as active/passive , reason/emotion , form/matter , mind body , autonomy/dependence as weapons in this supposed war , recommending their own ideals by directly claiming that the contrary ones were typical of women . |
| 17 | The resurgence of interest in cognitive processes makes it impossible to hold such a simple view any longer and nowadays most psychologists recognize that there are psychological processes , like verbal communication and the symbolic representation of future events , that can only reliably be demonstrated in other people . |
| 18 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 19 | A person whose poor health has caused progressively longer and more frequent absences from work will increasingly be at risk of losing his or her job . |
| 20 | In brief , he reports that as children of average and above-average ability mature as writers they tend to produce writing of increasing length ; they write longer and more complex sentences ; they employ a greater variety of clause types ; and they tend to use personal pronouns less . |
| 21 | Have longer and more detailed reviews |
| 22 | Studies of children who learn music successfully suggest that whilst routines are important , there is also a case for ‘ focused periods ’ during which music might occupy longer and more sustained periods of attention — as part of a project , for example , or in preparation for a performance . |
| 23 | While these national liberation movements in the Third World were in theory modelled on the nationalism of the West , in practice the states they attempted to construct were generally the opposite of the ethnically and linguistically homogeneous entities which came to be seen as the standard form of ‘ nation- state ’ in the West . |
| 24 | It is a huge red supergiant , 218 light-years away and over 700 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 25 | The central region of the Coma cluster of galaxies , which is 170 megaparsecs away and around 3 megaparsecs in radius . |
| 26 | ‘ We believe that there are questions of interpretation as to what is a cross-subsidy in respect of operators of aircraft above and below fifteen tonnes . |
| 27 | 3600 BP and then remained constant , or it may have oscillated to positions above and below present levels ( Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 28 | Benefits from operational systems can be measured , although not easily and not many organisations carry out thorough evaluations . |
| 29 | No one with any experience of political meetings or grass-roots political movements and organizations can fail to have noticed how easily and naturally such groups and gatherings are dominated by white , bourgeois educated males . |
| 30 | Physically and emotionally exhausted groups of people sit round the bed of the ill person feeling quite unable to leave even though they may have children at home or jobs to go to or a multitude of other functions . |