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

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1 On that severe view no Socialist could support the promotion of producers ' or workers ' , or industrial co-operatives , call them what you will , if they are described as organisations for the manufacture of goods or for the provision of services , and wholly or very largely owned by and ultimately controlled by those working in them .
2 All presidents must move carefully and skilfully if they are to be effective leaders .
3 He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight .
4 At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends .
5 By February 1990 almost one-third of the 344,263 ethnic Turks who had fled in 1989 had returned to Bulgaria because of the unemployment and other economic hardship they had encountered in Turkey , and latterly because of the repudiation in Bulgaria of Zhivkov 's assimilation policies .
6 Like its predecessor , in order to be adopted the new package — known initially as the Pearson Accord and latterly as the Charlottetown Agreement — required ratification by the federal parliament and by individual provincial legislatures .
7 During that time he worked with wool blending as Teasing Foreman and latterly as assistant to the Raw Materials ' Manager in the Warehouse office .
8 The offences were committed over six years at the society 's museum at Comrie , initially when the accused was a trustee of the society and latterly when he was curator .
9 Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down .
10 We are no longer surprised by it ; it is taking place all the time , and more rapidly and widely than ever before .
11 This is a generic something : I am speaking here of a literary practice long and widely and variously undertaken , in relation to which Roth is both critic and executant .
12 No , it 's confidential and properly cos she 'll want some of it back .
13 This , in effect , ensures that all ferrets are ready and willing to work fully and properly and there will be no unnecessary delays or complications that could have been prevented .
14 You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you .
15 In one way , the novel is a final triumph of realism , representing character more inwardly and intimately than ever previously .
16 She was puzzled only by the unmistakable largesse of the confidence proffered to her , because try as she might , she could not persuade herself that Clelia could talk like this , so wittily and intimately and inquiringly , to everyone ; she could not believe that she could talk like this to many .
17 No one hunted man-eating tigers more assiduously and successfully or knew more about them than Corbett .
18 Paintings and drawings , separated from one another in all but the first room , are arranged straightforwardly and unpretentiously and while some areas are too tightly hung nothing , except other people , interposes between viewer and work .
19 and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it
20 His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response .
21 Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine .
22 For , in the book of Daniel ( 12:4 ) there is a prophecy that seemed to speak of a time when many would pass to and fro and knowledge would be increased .
23 There were moments during the Mass when the litanies and prayers , the censers swinging to and fro and the smell of incense made her feel lightheaded , and she was able to believe that she was not really present , not really being married at all , and that at any moment she might open her eyes and awake , to find herself back in Corcaguiney , with the wind ruffling the water across Dingle Harbour and the cloud shadows sailing over the mountain .
24 Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain .
25 Dorothy had glared phlegmatically around and said that would teach the silly little wretch to wander off on his own ; it was Helen who had rushed to and fro and eventually found Edward , white with shock , cowering beside one of the tills .
26 Like a game-cock in arrogance , he lifted her back across the dividing space and pulling away the collar of her , inevitably musquash , fur coat , he dropped his mouth low on the back of her neck , drawing kisses to and fro and nibbling gently across it .
27 There are plenty of areas of sea floor with Recent sedimentary cover of sorts , but — at least on the inner shelves — this nearly always seems to be moving to and Fro and not building up .
28 Eleanor released her grip on the pedestal and put her hands over her eyes , rocking to and fro and moaning , ‘ I ca n't bear it , I ca n't bear it ! ’
29 The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings .
30 In the fifth hour of play , Karpov was reduced to shuffling his king to and fro as Short steadily improved his position .
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