Example sentences of "[adv] and [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 IAT 's Air Tournament International 92 is being held at the A&AEE Boscombe Down on the 13th and 14th , and promises more than 400 aircraft taking part statically and in each day 's eight-hour flying display .
2 JM Kilburn , a close observer as cricket correspondent of the Yorkshire Post , wrote : In his view the game should be played earnestly , sensibly and with unfailing goodwill .
3 When he chose to speak , he used his voice to argue fiercely and with great precision , and now , on a Sunday morning ramble in Aberdeen , Boswell suddenly became aware , ‘ to an extraordinary degree , of Dr Johnson 's excellent English pronunciation .
4 … if environmental problems are pursued rigorously enough and with sufficient attention to likely contributions from other disciplines they may foster constructive alterations in public policy but at the same time may stimulate new research and refinement of research methodology to the benefit of geographic discipline .
5 I used to bring down quilts and my machine was n't big enough and in any case I could n't possibly lift them once they were
6 Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger .
7 If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ .
8 Wagner , for his part , was equally taken with his gifted young admirer and , as Nietzsche explained to Rohde , " when we were getting ready to leave , he shook my hand warmly and with great friendliness invited me to visit him , in order to make music and talk philosophy . "
9 The expense of this " core " group forces organisations to shed all noncore activities and staff to specialist contractors who in theory do the work better and at less cost .
10 ‘ It 's all about doing it better and with more style than the next man .
11 Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose .
12 And remember , legal experts could argue endlessly and at great expense about ownership and what constitutes ‘ Larceny ’ .
13 He had to raid suddenly and with total surprise , to disable the fleet , destroy the airfields and block the entrance to the harbour — the whole fleet would then be held captive .
14 Complaints come on suddenly and with great violence
15 Like Aconite it is suited to plethoric , vigorous , healthy constitutions , robust children and babies when the complaints come on suddenly and with great violence , then subsides just as suddenly ; a short , sharp course — Not to be used in prolonged , continuous or recurrent states or in complaints which come on gradually .
16 A large vertical shaft plunges suddenly and without prior warning at the bottom of a steep-sided and unfenced crater ; a slip could not be checked and a falling body would be swallowed by the black gulf and not come to rest until hitting the boulder floor 340 feet below .
17 But then , suddenly and without any warning , the army opened fire .
18 All these experiences happen very suddenly and without conscious thought and can be very frightening if we fail to understand what is happening .
19 Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt :
20 He was so drunk that his words came thickly and with great difficulty as if he had been wounded .
21 My journey was both inside and outside that tradition , because I learned that the quest for an essence dissolves the dynamic differences which describe the working class itself ( aside from class differences which are one of the most apparent characteristics of England ) — poor and unskilled from skilled , men from women , young from old , waged from wageless , organised from unorganised , black from white .
22 The Association of Directors of Research Centres in the Social Sciences ( DORCISS ) has been established to promote the effective leadership , organisation and management of those non-profit public knowledge research centres inside and outside higher education which have a significant level of research activity in the social sciences .
23 When he had settled her , gently and with professional competence , he seated himself in the chair opposite .
24 However , a partner needs gentle handling to tread gently and with extreme caution .
25 You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work .
26 In England The Times reported its proceedings daily and on 28 September 1880 summed up with an editorial which included the following sentences :
27 Every worm removed about 0.1 ml of blood daily and in heavy infections of several hundred worms , pups quickly become profoundly anaemic .
28 The two leaders agreed that they would meet on a regular basis in the future , perhaps annually and with less formality , and Gorbachev invited Bush to the Soviet Union .
29 Below and beyond this zone behavioural responses must become the major controlling mechanism , but this becomes metabolically expensive , and must lead to exhaustion if it can not be made good by an increased intake of food and rest .
30 Headroom equivalent to door head-height could just be achieved both below and above this gallery and under the retained ceiling .
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