Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Repeated loans Where the capital sum paid to the settlor is a sum paid by way of loan , then if one or more capital sums have previously been paid to the settlor by way of loan and wholly repaid , the amount of that capital sum shall be treated as equal to its excess ( if any ) over so much of the sum or sums previously paid as had already fallen to be treated as his income by virtue of s677(1) ( TA 1988 , s677(4) ( b ) ) . |
| 2 | The big Christmas , big Christmas card company , erm , and it is big , er , is American , and wholly owned American , and that 's not , but they did n't build a factory , they took one over that 's already , |
| 3 | His stepbrother , half-scandalized and wholly impressed by Herbert 's levity , never forgot the episode . |
| 4 | Now the fantasy involved in inhabiting the bodies of animals , previously alluded to , and skilfully exploited by writers like Kafka , certainly extends to a curiosity over what animals might be said to see , hear , smell , or otherwise sense . |
| 5 | If it requires a little effort from the listener , then , it is an ultimately rewarding experience , tightly and skilfully constructed , and containing passages of great beauty and spirit . |
| 6 | But they played well in Sally Beamish 's Sinfonia , a piece inspired by the old Scottish bagpipes — music beautifully and skilfully written , though not sounding particularly new . |
| 7 | Martin carefully and skilfully sprayed both occupied and empty flats . |
| 8 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 9 | Somehow it seemed delightfully ironic that on the very day that the Association of Tennis Professionals organised its fascinating and skilfully presented seminar on ‘ The Speed of the Game ’ , two renowned baseliners reached the final of the Lipton Players International Championships in Key Biscayne . |
| 10 | Houseman 's Shropshire that was once visible from Telford 's shopping centre has been very carefully and skilfully gnawed away . |
| 11 | A shoe like a heavy old bullet thrown out of the shadows , and skilfully caught , off-balance and one-handed ; windmilling trousers trapped by the foot and then kicked up on to the leg ; that serpent necktie . |
| 12 | Foulston himself wrote of the group that : ‘ it occurred to him that if a series of edifices , exhibiting the various features of the architectural world , were erected in conjunction and skilfully grouped , a happy result might be obtained . |
| 13 | Now this stunningly photographed and skilfully acted film by French film-maker Maurice Pialat ( who made To Our Loves and Under Satan 's Sun uses an accretion of naturalistic detail to present an emotionally restrained but utterly compelling account of the last three months of Van Gogh 's life . |
| 14 | For those in search of the true state of this extraordinary art , there is no better guide than the massive , three-volume Handbook , written by the cream of the US artificial intelligentsia and skilfully edited at Ed Feigenbaum 's AI citadel at Stanford University . |
| 15 | A single-volume history has recently been courageously and skilfully attempted by Hugh Honour and John Fleming , which inevitably suffers from the problem of compression . |
| 16 | A careful distillation of the principles of public service broadcasting submitted by the Broadcasting Research Unit to the Peacock Committee in 1985 showed that the old values that were in place in 1945 could still be made to fit the diverse and vastly changed system forty years on . |
| 17 | Its fiction is vast , and vastly translated . |
| 18 | Irish Short Stories selected by David Marcus ( Sceptre , £6.99 ) — A collection rich as Guinness and vastly varied in mood and style — from sparkling blarney to dark epic . |
| 19 | What we really need is more green spaces in cities , adequate public transport , traffic-free town centres and vastly improved public cleaning services to make our cities the thriving centres they could be . |
| 20 | I got wet thro ’ and was kindly and hospitably treated at Mrs. Fletcher 's sisters … ’ |
| 21 | LIBERATED FROM the constraints of a trad group therapy session , Kristen Hersh sounds at once happy with her lot and tremendously fired up . |
| 22 | Beautifully furnished and luxuriously equipped . |
| 23 | The old man , who had survived three wives and latterly lived ‘ above the shop ’ in the abandoned Town Hall over the ‘ Black Hole ’ , died on New Year 's Day , 1891 . |
| 24 | A pair of Derwent jet engines , once fitted to Meteor WL181 and latterly used as runway de-icers were hammered down for only £750 . |
| 25 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 26 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 27 | The Elton Committee managed to produce a comprehensive and widely supported report and a coherent set of recommendations in a relatively short period of time . |
| 28 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 29 | The concept of authoritarian population implies , for Jessop et al. , a monolithic , relatively stable and widely supported form of government . |
| 30 | It has been long and widely believed that urbanization and industrialization cause large increases in crime . |