Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon it was just clumps and permanently itchy so I asked them to shave it off . |
| 2 | Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease . |
| 3 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 4 | In the field of philosophy logical support was claimed for the absolute superiority of scientific and mathematical thinking over religion and even traditional philosophy . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , there is another side to Semai character , one involving a large measure of social and emotional isolation and jealously guarded personal autonomy . |
| 6 | Pearce Crosby and still disappointing end to a promising move . |
| 7 | A slowdown in the productivity gains on all plants ( old and new ) — gains which could be obtained from reorganization and more intensive work — meant that a given growth of product wages already implied faster scrapping . |
| 8 | It is notable that when Adorno mentions examples of songs or musicians ( not often ) , they are always drawn from one narrow band of the spectrum : the hit songs and most popular dance bands ( such as Guy Lombardo 's ) of the 1930s . |
| 9 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 10 | The Partial Indemnity Clause will apply to group schemes e.g. vehicles in the ownership or control of a firm or association and otherwise eligible for fleet terms but where they are in fact insured in the name of particular individuals . |
| 11 | Too much thinking and too little practice . |
| 12 | In yet another classification , Reid distinguishes between truancy and less serious forms of poor attendance at school . |
| 13 | Membership of the Begonia Society came soon after , which brought me into contact with some wonderful growers and really marvellous people who would help in giving growing tips and providing cuttings of varieties I did n't have . |
| 14 | , ( Arthur Annesley ) Ronald ( 1886–1926 ) , novelist , was born 17 January 1886 in London , the second of the three sons and the four children of ( Sir ) Joseph Thomas Firbank of London , railway contractor and later Unionist MP for East Hull , and his wife Jane Harriette , daughter of James Perkins Garrett , rector of Kellistown , county Carlow , Ireland . |
| 15 | How many fascists did he bury with public grief and deep private satisfaction in the last year of the German Occupation ? |
| 16 | Harkin , serving his second term as senator after five terms in the House of Representatives , was an unabashed liberal ; a populist of working-class stock and thus able to appeal to the Democrats ' traditional constituency , his abrasiveness could alienate middle-class voters . |
| 17 | They include fragmented layered basic and ultrabasic intrusions and also younger Lower Proterozoic ( 2000 Ma ) supracrustal sedimentary and volcanic rocks which host the Gairloch Cu-Zn deposit . |
| 18 | He 's arguably as dangerous as William Munny ( Eastwood ) , ex-hired killer and now broken-down hog farmer who comes out of retirement for one last job . |
| 19 | This very small trichostrongyle ( 0.7-1.0 mm long ) occurs in the stomach of cats , pigs , wild felids , foxes and occasionally domestic dogs . |
| 20 | It has plenty of slots — seven 16-bit and one 8-bit — with two of the former occupied by the video card and yet another minuscule component , the multi-I/O card with floppy and IDE interfaces , which is barely two inches tall . |
| 21 | However , if you feel the buyer 's going to present a business problem we show them the buyer 's guide and a business card so you can give them the buyer 's guide , explain what it 's for and then give them your business card and then that buyer 's guide to look for business card . |
| 22 | So it comforted her to see Alan lying there on her bed , his huge ancient unpolished cracked shoes nestling comfortably in the tangled mess of her grey sheets and leaking duvet and discarded purple socks , his eager owl face shining with enlightenment as he spoke abstractly of public spending projects and the American New Deal and tight fiscal policy . |
| 23 | Jenny Bianco , social services chairwoman , rejected the accusation : ‘ If you get a good service while paying less than it is a much better deal and more realistic than cutting services to save money . ’ |
| 24 | The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender , Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns . |
| 25 | Merovingian history deserves detailed study in its own right , but it also needs to be understood in the broader context of Late Antique and early medieval history . |
| 26 | Such curves are obtained by dilatometry which is a slow experiment and therefore capable of giving reproducible results for the glass transition temperature which , as we shall see , is strongly time-dependent . |
| 27 | An observer may be led to accept some observation statement on the basis of a perception and yet that observation statement may be false . |
| 28 | ‘ Superior stylistic settings and often terrific process effects are largely wasted by the limp , lifeless pacing of adapter-director William Sterling , ’ wrote Variety . |
| 29 | He rather hauntingly characterises the life of the contemplative as a God-hunt and compares those hounds who see the hare and never weary of the chase until they have their quarry with those who run simply because others in the pack do so . |
| 30 | The authorities were more worried about this group than about the NL and only one document about it his so far been released , despite the fact that it was successfully infiltrated by several agents . |