Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such an utterly formal , undefinable and wholly unanalysable concept of ‘ ought ’ is necessary if law is to be regarded as normative and if the positivist proposition that law may have any content is to be sustained . |
| 32 | By the time the Sex Pistols had arrived on Virgin , the initial enthusiasm for reggae among those running the label had begun to wane , but it was suddenly revived by an intriguing , and wholly unexpected , business opportunity . |
| 33 | Jay smiled from her shadow , admitting a lazy , faint and wholly delicious curl of desire . |
| 34 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 35 | The fall of birds is meant to be seen as quite ridiculous and wholly supernatural in its proportions . |
| 36 | It was ludicrously swollen , unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea . |
| 37 | Questions of defence policy are vast , complicated , confidential , and wholly unsuited for ventilation before a jury . |
| 38 | When we consider justice , we stand back as politicians and invite independent courts and wholly independent juries to consider hotly contested matters . |
| 39 | That is , they involve a second and wholly different relation , a semantic or intentional relation between themselves and whatever they represent . |
| 40 | ‘ In the comparatively rare case in which such a judicial discretion falls to be exercised , there will be two distinct and wholly different issues confronting the court . |
| 41 | An early version of the alternative doctrine polygeny , according to which the global category consists of a set of quite separate races of quite distinct historical origin and wholly different psychological attributes was advanced by Paracelsus in 1520 , but of much greater significance for the history of anthropology is the fact that , during a critical period between 1 850 and 1 870 , polygeny was the dominant orthodoxy in scientific circles throughout Europe and America . |
| 42 | This , you understand , is purely sentimental and wholly irrational . |
| 43 | ( Some male artists continue to think with images of women — Anselm Kiefer 's most recent installation , in London , called ‘ Women of the Revolution ’ , expressed his own painful reckonings of loss , and his nostalgic longing for rebirth , through the names of historical female figures , from Marie-Antoinette to Théroigne de Méricourt ; he symbolised them as beds , shrouded in lead sheets , and puddled with pools — reflections of the artist 's desires in the traditional manner and wholly insensitive appropriations of lives that have barely been rescued as stories . |
| 44 | That happy and wholly characteristic confusion of fact and supposition makes his criticism as readable , at times , as an eccentric novel by a country gentleman more at ease at a hunt-ball than in a classroom , at a levée than in a seminar . |
| 45 | Doing so requires great skill , and an integrated and wholly dedicated application of the techniques we know separately as physiotherapy , occupational therapy , educational psychology , speech therapy and teaching . |
| 46 | On 11 May 1559 Knox preached his great and wholly inflammatory sermon in St John 's Kirk in Perth , producing mob riot not only in the church itself but also in the Black and Grey Friars and the Carthusian monastery , all of which were sacked . |
| 47 | Cold and inexorable and wholly irresistible . |
| 48 | He dismissed the threat of fining schools as arrogant nonsense and wholly inappropriate . |
| 49 | It is also the meaning of the doctrine that he alone was perfect and wholly free from sin . |
| 50 | He however submitted that the magistrate was obliged to look at the whole of the evidence emanating from Price and that , since Price had retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant , that evidence must be regarded as worthless and wholly unreliable , and so incapable of forming the basis of a committal . |
| 51 | But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority , and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment . |
| 52 | The Prime Minister 's wife , Clarissa , appears in the story as an aggravating factor : ‘ He [ the PM ] rang up Clarissa , who is becoming his unofficial and wholly bad press adviser , and asked her advice . ’ |
| 53 | In contrast this very basic technique is robust and computationally simple . |
| 54 | The appeal of unification grammars is that they are able to combine both linguistically theoretical and computationally tractable methods for processing language . |
| 55 | Among these advantages are their ability to represent partial information in an elegant way ; the inherent potential for structure sharing ; the declarative description of information flow , and a mathematically clean and computationally tractable type system with inheritance ( Bouma et al , 1988 ) . |
| 56 | ‘ Stunning city sights and leisurely relaxing beaches . ’ |
| 57 | But you would not know this from the music , which is delightful and radiantly happy . |
| 58 | The famous and vastly influential Token for Children ( 1753 ) by John Janeway was even more explicit : |
| 59 | In the 13 years since Montague broke away from Cables Montague , his father 's trucking company , he has taken Tiphook to pole position in the European container leasing business — a complementary , and vastly bigger , business than trailer leasing — and to second place in the world market behind General Electric subsidiary Genstar . |
| 60 | The modern census is but one expression of this movement , as well as the development and vastly increased scope of economic statistics and other methods of social accounting . |