Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porybny , a director of Florenc ( the party-owned and latterly state-owned company which published Rude Pravo ) , had founded a joint-stock company , Borgis , which then took over Rude Pravo . |
| 2 | Also there should be an effective and widely respected authority which can solve disputes and give penalties in the case of infringement of mutually agreed codes of practice . |
| 3 | The land of the rising sun is home to short , impassive and incredibly clever people who feed their brains with raw fish , while Flanders is full of immensely fat , stupid people who quaff beer and dunk their chips in mayonnaise . |
| 4 | Le Rue the band are one of the tightest and most cohesive units I 've seen . |
| 5 | The hardest and most necessary lesson I had to learn was how to say goodbye . |
| 6 | One minute dangling on the end of a rope ; the next a reprieve , a bumpy ride through Paris , followed by the sweetest bread and most fragrant wine I had tasted for months . |
| 7 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 8 | Paris was the focal centre of the Île de France region , which produced the early and most famous examples which set the pattern for the whole of northern Europe . |
| 9 | And most other parents one could have calmed down — smoothed things over somehow — but Mrs Willmot , well , we know Mrs Willmot , do n't we ? |
| 10 | She knew there would be tea , coffee and most other things she would need for tonight . |
| 11 | For Jenny , and most other women who have seen themselves as only ‘ victims ’ , first disclosures to other people — strangers like me — of the black torment they have kept grimly to themselves , makes them begin to recognise that they are actually ‘ survivors ’ . |
| 12 | By ‘ new balance of power ’ Freda Kirchwey ( and most other writers who made this same point ) meant a balance between Japan , Korea , Formosa , China and the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | If you can procur [ sic ] me any porters for this , the finest and most perfect work I have yet attempted , you will be doing me a real kindness ; you are aware that neither pains or expense will be spared to render it complete . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Miss Mates said that I was the best and most hard-working girl she had ever had , ’ she answered proudly . |
| 15 | However , at the time they were the best and most modern cutters we had sailed on and we were all very proud of the fact . |
| 16 | Montgomery said that the spring offensive of 1943 was ‘ the heaviest and most savage fighting we have had since I have commanded the Eighth Army ’ . |
| 17 | It will be appreciated that for most kinds of work and most working organisations it is not feasible to employ specialist ergonomists . |
| 18 | By comparison with Alexander I and most eighteenth-century tsars he had been remarkably inactive beyond his frontiers . |
| 19 | Bernard Fergusson was descended from one of Ayrshire 's oldest and most distinguished families which has produced many eminent men . |
| 20 | In 1830 he described the opium trade as ‘ the safest and most gentlemanlike speculation I am aware of ’ , and later argued that it was Chinese buyers , rather than British merchants , who were doing the smuggling . |
| 21 | For Li Shai Tung , trust was the rarest and most precious thing he had to offer ; for in trusting he placed his life — quite literally his life — in the hands of others . |
| 22 | Fairs and feasts have survived the centuries in an amazing variety of ways , some of which I have already written about , but at West Witton in Wensleydale there survives one of the strangest and most interesting events I have come across . |
| 23 | ‘ He always won , ’ Beaverbrook said , ‘ he always beat me — the toughest and most unscrupulous politician you could find — cold , merciless in his dislikes . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The first and most basic thing we offer people is an opportunity to be creative , to explore their imaginative and creative talents which in prison , obviously , are largely stifled , ’ explains Alex Ford , Clean Break 's director . |
| 25 | Really , Muggeridge was one of the worst and most transparent liars he had ever encountered . |
| 26 | You can usually tell a good Fender before you plug it in , and I 've got to say that acoustically the SRV is one of the loudest and most solid-sounding Strats I 've come across ( and in that I include non-trem Strats , which usually sound better under these conditions ) . |
| 27 | I think he done it because he was picked on a lot and most likely thought he had n't got a lot going for him . |
| 28 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 29 | Jessamy knew that this was the strangest and most disturbing birthday she was ever likely to have |
| 30 | This stance was rejected by extremist elements in the military , and by the richest and most right-wing families who had been the most fervent supporters of the coup . |