Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Relating a question to the text of a given hexagram is often a difficult and frustratingly obscure business ; that 's why you need someone like me .
2 This is both regrettably limited and frustratingly hard to interpret .
3 If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility .
4 The Board of Palatine Ales plc , which is being advised by Purchase and Szell , regard the offer as both unwelcome and wholly unacceptable .
5 Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault .
6 His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’
7 The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance .
8 The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response .
9 The upshot of this was that the forgery allegation was abandoned and wholly new lines of defence were added by amendment to Mr. Steed 's counterclaim for rectification .
10 That was a part of the Horton and Banstead strategy and wholly consistent with its philosophy of local care ’ .
11 Social factors such as class ; place of residence ; ideological background ; membership of societies ; alliances between geologists for good or bad motives ; professionalism and amateurism ; patronage ; and religion , allied themselves to personality factors such as vanity ; obstinacy ; honesty ( or the lack of it ) ; innate curiosity and intellectual capacity , to create a complex and wholly consistent scenario for the advancement of the science .
12 As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs .
13 The government 's precipitate withdrawal led to an alcohol-inspired and wholly unsuccessful attempt by the Police Commissioner and Controller of the Bougainville State of Emergency , Paul Tohian , to mobilize the police and Army against the government [ see p. 37320 ] .
14 But it was only to avoid any tedious and wholly inconsequential explanation .
15 ( Morse admitted his willingness to listen to a little more ‘ tedious and wholly inconsequential explanation ’ . )
16 So I soon turned away , regretting only the loss of the shiny new tenpenny piece which I had inserted into the coin box to avoid any irritating boop-boop-boop cutting in to what I had stupidly hoped would be an uplifting and wholly encouraging conversation about my work and prospects .
17 We have resisted the temptation to link up with any beauty product firm simply because we want our panel of experts to give you nothing but honest , impartial and wholly unbiased advice .
18 The effect of this regrettable and wholly arbitrary restriction is that , for a senior executive , an unfair dismissal claim may provide only a very limited redress for the losses resulting from the unjust ending of employment .
19 Johnson admired Boece , not for his historical accuracy , but for his prose and intellectual style , ‘ formed with great diligence upon ancient models , and wholly uninfected with monastic barbarity ’ .
20 He has taken on possibly the most difficult directorship in the world , with unparalleled masterpieces in the huge collections , an enormous , sumptuous but dilapidated and unmodernised palace as his building , and wholly inadequate funding from the State .
21 The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender , Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns .
22 The Italian example is evidence not only of the effective and widespread use in a western democracy -of the industrial co-operative model but also of the rigorously businesslike and wholly unromantic attitude of LEGA towards it .
23 Haydn Gwynne , looking uncannily like Meryl Streep , makes a rather better-groomed Robyn than expected , versatile , spirited and wholly watchable .
24 It is a judge-made concept and wholly imprecise .
25 The regiment traces its history back to the Siege of Carroburg in 1865 , when it mounted a valiant and wholly successful defence of the walls in the face of a huge army led by the Count of Middenland .
26 Each story is unabridged and wholly authentic ; together they offer natural conversations , television interviews and presentations , and embrace a cross-section of regional accents and age groups .
27 The material is unabridged and wholly authentic .
28 Noël Coward was inspired to write the song ‘ London Pride ’ while standing on the platform of a London station on the morning after a particularly bad blitz and seeing Londoners going about their business ‘ gay and determined and wholly admirable ’ .
29 The quartet of soloists is completed by Adrian Martin 's likeable Ernesto , overcoming an earlier vocal malaise and wholly admirable in his Act 3 Serenade .
30 Scholarly ink , mixed with scholarly gall , was poured forth upon this fascinating and wholly insoluble mystery .
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