Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am familiar with a good number which use criteria much more sophisticated and diagnostically relevant than this when deciding to place children away from home . |
| 2 | Jersey looks feminine but natural with pointelle and lace trims , contrasting perfectly with tougher fleecy lumberjack checks , bodywarming waistcoats and luxuriously padded and quilted parkas . |
| 3 | Other evolutionary games ( hawk-dove , and so on ) which recognize such chaotic or patterned spatial structure may be more robust and widely applicable than those that do not . |
| 4 | In the 1930s critics so variously and widely influential as Allen Tate , Yvor Winters and F. R. Leavis each in his own way considered Pound 's criticism , or some of it , and then instructed their readers that that criticism could safely be ignored . |
| 5 | In other words , foreign auction houses should have been able to start holding auctions in Paris in 1993 , and as the two big auction houses are much more powerful and widely expert than any French auctioneering partnership , the commissaires-priseurs had good reason to be frightened . |
| 6 | But you are also very funny and strippingly caustic and not too ruthful about what seems contemptible to you , or tiresome . |
| 7 | Say that it 's quite nippy , and jolly safe when overtaking . |
| 8 | What we have in ( 5 ) might be improved in a number of ways so as to deal with questions and indeed objections , and thereby complicated and indeed greatly complicated . |
| 9 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | I like to play various stuff from GN'R , Clapton , Bettencourt , Metallica ( particularly James Hetfield ) and mostly Rossi and Parfitt from Quo . |
| 11 | Secure it at the bottom , the angle becoming more gradual and eventually flat as it reaches the base . |
| 12 | Linking girls in with the characters of Lord of the Flies , I am sure that there would be many Ralphs , a Jack of a different nature but leading to the same results , and eventually one or two Rogers . |
| 13 | And effectively three and a half to four foot off the ground . |
| 14 | The screws knew I was vocal and articulate and had by then got my own way to a fair extent by being incredibly polite and incredibly persistent but not actually stepping out of line . |
| 15 | According to De Quincey , Coleridge had ‘ the largest and most spacious intellect , the subtlest and most comprehensive that has existed among men ’ . |
| 16 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 17 | The concepts of a right and a liberty ( as opposed to freedom generally ) probably originated however , in systems of juridical law , and it is in legal systems that they have their most subtle and interesting applications and most thorough and detailed elaborations . |
| 18 | But the shock is nothing to their profound distaste at the circular photocopy letter telling me it was NO — not even signed and not even on a sheet of proper printed letterhead — for a job marketing one of the oldest and most prestigious and national professional bodies ! |
| 19 | The official 's duty is to have in mind the best and most effective and efficient means of carrying out the council 's decision . |
| 20 | Ironically , it was here , says Sacks , that he Trotskyists were most active and most effective and their significant increase in strength may at least in part be attributed to a sense of frustration and anger with the ICP who had , willingly or not , abandoned the cause of independence . |
| 21 | By insisting that ‘ with the exception of the instinct of self-preservation , the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper ’ he in effect undermined one of the basic assumptions of ensuing generations of archaeologists and more especially of prehistorians , namely that cultural advance can be adequately accounted for primarily in terms of utility at the level of subsistence and technology . |
| 22 | This is often the case in relation to listed and quoted companies because the IPC of the ABI has issued guidelines limiting the amount of unissued share capital over which there is a s80 authority to one-third of the existing issued share capital ( see its memorandum dated 10 September 1992 ) and most listed and quoted companies follow these guidelines . |
| 23 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 24 | The heathland had suddenly ended — to give place to an expanse of emerald green , which looked bright and most attractive but which , Cheryl realised with a shudder , concealed treacherous shifting marsh . |
| 25 | We have some armchair gardening to do , a thoroughly enjoyable pastime and most important if you are to get the best from your roses . |
| 26 | However , they would become noisy if ignored or neglected and downright troublesome if the family itself became lazy or rude . |
| 27 | Our Royals , I am afraid , are arrogant , uncharitable , greedy and downright un-Christian when it comes to preserving their own privileges and image . |
| 28 | There is such a fine line between the distinctive and downright ugly and unfortunately these fall into the latter category . |
| 29 | The confrontations are alive — and most definitely kicking — and are as combative , irritable and downright ugly as ever . |
| 30 | Japan was both militarily and economically vulnerable and the lack of outside support for her resistance to great power domination reinforced a sense of national isolation which originated in national myth , grew in the seclusion period and was strengthened by an awareness of the cultural divide between Japan and the West . |