Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | successfully complete and gain a mark of at least 40% in the centre set , HCIMA approved , examination relating to the area of study . |
| 2 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 3 | John Wain 's The Contenders ( 1958 ) ends with the most resonant and decorous of all English four-letter words , ‘ home ’ , and the emphasis on a familiar term is the concluding point of the novel : ‘ In English I said ‘ Home ’ . ’ |
| 4 | The story is long , complicated and just a part of one of the most controversial and problematic developments in the creation of the English canal system , a story admirably told in Charles Hadfield 's The Canals of the East Midlands and more fully still in Philip Stevens ' The Leicester Line . |
| 5 | Of these five tools , tests are the most controversial and the least used in Britain . |
| 6 | She has been one of the liveliest , most controversial and forthright MPs at Westminster during her ten years in the House . |
| 7 | It includes some of the most controversial and most significant for social services . |
| 8 | Of the three methods being considered , this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water . |
| 9 | The final alleged change — that of growing equality within the family-is perhaps the most controversial and the one which is most challenged by contemporary feminist writers who argue that the family is , and continues to be , the major unit sustaining the exploitation and subordination of women . |
| 10 | The decision to use the bomb remains the most controversial and probably the most important of the Second World War . |
| 11 | Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury has the kind of reputation that suggests even the switchboard ought to answer with ‘ Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury — the most controversial and innovative agency in Britain ’ . |
| 12 | When artificially illuminated from below , the effect of the countershading is reversed — the trumpet fish looks strikingly solid and highly conspicuous . |
| 13 | She speaks of it as a tremendously rich and enlarging experience , ‘ Friendship expressed at its very best , I think ’ . |
| 14 | But this is most unnecessary and cruel too . |
| 15 | In any case Napoleon III was not worried by Austria ; economically weak and diplomatically isolated as a result of her erratic policy during the Crimean War , she was no threat to France . |
| 16 | But it 's rather strange and er certainly not distance measure but it is a it is a measure . |
| 17 | But I personally feel that these two books are not just blood and gore , for they both actually have deep , rather strange and mysterious story lines , and not the usual one of an horrific axe-murderer ! |
| 18 | I 'd like to see erm there is still in this country a reluctance on the part of erm the lower social and economic class children and families to continue in education erm This leads to a position in which , a situation in which in , in the workplace and elsewhere the educated person is still regarded as a , as a sort of rather strange and alien minority person . |
| 19 | But you are also very funny and strippingly caustic and not too ruthful about what seems contemptible to you , or tiresome . |
| 20 | then , of course , they have the most polite and efficient cabin crew in the business . |
| 21 | In her most polite and charming voice , she said , ‘ My name is Anabelle . |
| 22 | I , I do n't say that it was like being grilled by the K G B he was most polite and courteous . |
| 23 | So you have a very particular view of the constitution , that given by the founding fathers and one which is still in force some seventy eighty years later as America headed towards its most momentous and divisive crisis in its history . |
| 24 | The Castilian fleet , based in the Cantabrian coast ports , was perhaps the most professional and well-organized navy in western Europe in the 1360s and 1370s , and it was well placed both to attack English shipping on the route between England and Bordeaux and to harry the south coast of England . |
| 25 | You are probably aware that the Marauders hold the most physical area sales meetings in the UK , if not on Planet Earth : the reason for this is that they are then able to carry out the most professional and demanding surveys to get the sale . |
| 26 | The service is tremendously friendly and efficient and it has some of the best ski schools in the world ( with instructors who speak English ) . |
| 27 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 28 | We slowly down-climbed and abseiled the steep , but short , South Ridge to the snow . |
| 29 | A. It is most annoying and frustrating that plant names tend to change , particularly in recent years , and Alternanthera is a typical example . |
| 30 | It has changed and not changed : hatred is after all most annoying and cognisance is a very quaint affair ’ ( 14 ) . |