Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.

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31 But about many of its manifestations there can be something ominous — something that is acutely understood and eloquently exposed in The Counterlife .
32 The ticket collector , who had just had a new perm , thought the girl 's geometrically cut and excessively short hair awful .
33 A point deep inside the joint is skilfully selected and the pain grows so fast I have to tear my arm from her hands .
34 No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six .
35 Its meaning is inadequately theorised and remains largely at the level of common sense , a crude alternative to the repressive order of work .
36 The saline is eventually filtered and then heated in shallow pans to complete the evaporation process before the salt is left to crystallise .
37 This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses .
38 The trousers are destroyed ; the wife is eventually overcome and forced to promise submissiveness .
39 ‘ Foureyes ’ is recruited by the Victoria Victors to improve its design , but the car is eventually discovered and wins the race for the Bats .
40 Beyond this , the ultimate elongation is eventually reached and the polymer breaks at B. The area under this part of the curve is the energy required for tough fracture to take place .
41 There is a death which is eventually explained and some rather complicated love-affairs .
42 Restorative proctocolectomy is not recommended knowingly for Crohn 's colitis , as recurrence is eventually anticipated and there is a high incidence of complications .
43 The girl is eventually divorced and will return to her parents and her first love .
44 This walk is leisurely paced and covers between three and five miles through the stunning countryside of Wensleydale .
45 As it is thereby illustrated and developed its implications should clarify .
46 Interpretation of the passage is thereby facilitated and one can use it selectively to pick up additional information to extend the schema — that the reaction referred to is known as saponification , for example .
47 Thirdly , overall behavioural responses require for their observation an intimate familiarity with each species which is rarely achieved and could be unachievable .
48 The costa ( C ) is unbranched and convex while the subcosta ( Sc ) is rarely branched and concave .
49 A powerful line taking he left arête of Titan 's Wall , it is graded E5 6b , is rarely repeated and currently stands as Ben Nevis 's hardest rock climb .
50 Industrial members , who constitute over half the Institute 's membership , are effectively in the same position as the public as far as the Caparo decision is concerned , since they are involved with other companies ' audited accounts in their capacity of investor or creditor , but their voice is rarely heard and , even then , is ignored .
51 Distance casting is rarely needed and a 50 yard job is more than adequate for flounder .
52 Deceptively , because in practice it is rarely accomplished and only in a few cases have polymer blends or mixtures achieved industrial importance .
53 The teenage element of the community have one inadequate youth club which does not have the facilities to provide the required range of activities and no amount of proposed refurbishment will entice the majority to attend a club which is badly situated and of dubious reputation .
54 Despite his wound Ahn still fights like a tiger , but is badly beaten and reeling .
55 His face is badly beaten and he has two black eyes .
56 Specific mention is made of , among others , the Ignalina nuclear power station , which is badly constructed and lacks proper safety procedures ; the Akmene cement works , which causes respiratory diseases and dermatitis among local people ; the Jonava fertilizer plant , the site of a major accident in 1989 involving the emission of 7,000 tons of ammonia ; and the Mazeikiai oil refinery , which emits 62,000 tons of pollutants , including phenol and acetone , directly into the air every year .
57 Another six inch long wound on his stomach is not as deep , but the area is badly swollen and he has another inch deep wound on his front leg where the knife was stuck in . ’
58 His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’
59 Surgeons could n't save Chloe 's left hand ; her right hand is badly disfigured and her face is literally having to be rebuilt .
60 Where the land is badly scarred and broken , the simplest treatment is to plant trees and produce small patches of woodland .
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