Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grafting on to American rootstock led to a much needed rationalisation , whereby only the best sites in the classic regions were replanted and only noble vines were cultivated . |
| 2 | This highlights how Fazisi had to struggle and how great their achievement was . |
| 3 | ( c ) It is far better to invest in reliable commercially designed and thoroughly field-tested equipment than rely upon inadequate Heath-Robinson-like d-i-y alternatives . |
| 4 | What the stores sell is extremely good value , functionally designed and occasionally inspired furniture : attractive pieces for a very modest outlay . |
| 5 | They are very well designed and totally waterproof and bugproof . |
| 6 | It would be easy to point to the lack of a six-cylinder engine and mark it down , but the Saab rises above that with a blend of abilities that few can rival : space , pace , fine handling and ride , a well designed and supremely comfortable interior and heaps of equipment . |
| 7 | The report also mentions poorly designed and inefficiently used dust yards as a major source of secondary emissions into the atmosphere . |
| 8 | There is so much to be won and so much at stake . |
| 9 | In those five seasons of triumph , 86 of their 140 championship matches were won and only 20 lost . |
| 10 | How many people do you see every day — cycling , walking and even driving — wearing headphones and singing to the music ? |
| 11 | In addition the research aims to help frame practical recommendations about how the potential benefits of community credit unions might be maximised and how outside agencies can best help . |
| 12 | You have to try and please both parties . |
| 13 | ‘ They are obviously highly committed and highly motivated people . |
| 14 | As my hon. Friend will know and as hon. Members will hardly need to be reminded , a large number of roles are currently carried out by the Royal Auxiliary Air Force . |
| 15 | The life of a battery animal is highly stressed and completely unnatural . |
| 16 | They will be maximally stressed and probably able to take little orally due to vomiting and/or impaired gastrointestinal absorption . |
| 17 | Many early pigments are naturally occurring and brightly coloured minerals , usually metal salts , and often only minute traces remain . |
| 18 | The therapist needs to find out how often the problems are occurring and how extreme the behaviour is in order to assess the severity of the problem . |
| 19 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 20 | Coal fell into disfavour on the grounds that steam engines are noisy , polluting and only 5 per cent efficient . |
| 21 | She pulled away , her soft mouth trembling , her eyes dilated and vibrantly green in her flushed face . |
| 22 | lost something and I ca n't , I ca n't find it and I 'm looking and I 'm , and ee , and er , a bit of a noise or anything I 'm looking backwards is coming and then I realize he 's not there any more to come and then other days I just feel like I 'm dangling in the air and can see the , the ground and I ca n't touch it with my feet , just somewhere right , right out , it 's not real , not real you know and then you go , you get back to with a bump and know that it 's real and then it just feels left , nothing else , you ca n't help yourself in any other way . |
| 23 | Hardly anyone can have learned both to read and to write and probably few learned even to read just by attending Sunday classes . |
| 24 | He enclosed a paper of questions to be put to them if any such were located and clearly this request was responsible for a report Sir Daniel had compiled on his own account about the Coniston mines that same year . |
| 25 | Reliance is currently placed on a network of monitoring stations , often sparsely located and frequently outside fog-prone areas ; GIS could implement a predictive model based on digitized map features and indeed the model could also be used in site allocation studies for airports and the like . |
| 26 | The software determines how many crossroads there are , where they are located and how many options are offered by each of them . |
| 27 | No temples have been located and only two possible ritual pits have been identified , both in Little Spittle . |
| 28 | In the beginning he would always win and then one day , inevitably I suppose , I beat him . |
| 29 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 30 | There is already substantial evidence to show that the wives of unemployed claimants are less likely to work and more likely to stop working once their husbands are unemployed , than other women . |