Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they talk about work of this type , policemen stress the importance of remaining detached and emotionally cold . |
| 2 | Charles felt detached and rather sad . |
| 3 | The account he gave of it was detailed , detached and distinctly unenthusiastic . |
| 4 | He scored 15 goals in 1990–91 ; 23 in 91–92 and now 28 in 92–93 . |
| 5 | The original training skipper , John Bullock , was replaced in October by Pete Goss , an ex-Royal Marine and single-handed transatlantic yachtsman , He now works with freelance instructor and first mate Nick Booth . |
| 6 | When this was done opposite effects emerged for generally risky and generally non-risky junctions . |
| 7 | Manual assembly with ‘ stand alone ’ automated equipment was less expensive , less risky and more flexible — and was therefore a better fit for the business . |
| 8 | If reparation were more consistently pursued we should have a much more civilized and morally acceptable penal system than the present one . |
| 9 | Jesus 's own crucifixion is variously dated between A.D. 30 and A.D. 36 , and seems to have occurred after John 's death . |
| 10 | They are due at the Ulster Hall on September 28 and at the Rialto in Londonderry on September 30 and Little Brown Jug , In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade will be ringing out once more . |
| 11 | For example , after the first step command DELAY is loaded with 30 and therefore 30 clock interrupts occur before DELAY is counted down to zero . |
| 12 | Haydn Gwynne , looking uncannily like Meryl Streep , makes a rather better-groomed Robyn than expected , versatile , spirited and wholly watchable . |
| 13 | This set contains definitive accounts of the Sonatas for Cello , Flue , Oboe , Clarinet & Violin ( provided you do n't mind the occasional rough edge from |Menuhin ) , as well as a spirited and supremely Gallic performance of the Trio for Piano , Oboe and Bassoon ( a splendid very French-sounding beast on this recording ) , the Piano and Wind Sextet and much else besides . |
| 14 | I 'm very cross at the way you dismissed PagePlus as ‘ extraordinarily unbalanced , primitive and even quirky ’ ( February issue ) . |
| 15 | In 1918 Eliot wrote of the need for artists to be at once very primitive and very sophisticated ; he praised Lewis 's Tarr as being ‘ like our civilization criticized , our acrobatics animadverted upon adversely , by an orang-outang of genius , Tarzan of the Apes ’ . |
| 16 | That humanity will find something to replace war is certain , but it will never come to light until the suffocating mass of claims based on unbelievably primitive and stubbornly adhered-to religion and superstition , is swept away in its entirety . |
| 17 | He had the advantage of being a poet himself and a member of a circle of respectable poets , of whom the best was Simon Dach , at Königsberg ; he had wide musical knowledge , not only of the Italian masters of monody , as he reveals in one of his greatest songs , ‘ O der rauhen Grausamkeit ’ : but of other foreign song , French and even Polish , from which he borrowed with due acknowledgement . |
| 18 | But today it is entirely French and justifiably proud of its thoroughly French style of wines . |
| 19 | You are utterly prepared for this and utterly ignorant . |
| 20 | In the past some craft-trading had been carried on beyond the vicinity , but this and nearly all other economic ties with the Ukraine to the south and their fellow Great Russians to the north had stopped . |
| 21 | Hope was aware of this and not unhappy about it . |
| 22 | And then : why do Libyans express their opposition to their government in this and not some other way ? |
| 23 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |
| 24 | I was deeply disturbed by this and quite convinced that it would lead to serious trouble . |
| 25 | Again this has to be set up by copying fieldnames and by again using the /Data , Query command and this time specifying as the output range an area that includes this and as many rows as you intend to use — in this case A65 … |
| 26 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 27 | Erm the remaining seventy two percent are entirely separate from this and obviously that 's a a very important point to bear in mind when you consider the level of allocation that 's been made first of all , and secondly the likelihood that if that is successful , first of all if it 's approved , if it 's recommended by the panel and eventually taken on by the county , and secondly if happens , then it is likely that it will result in skewing of the workforce even more towards the manufacturing sector of the economy and would in our view be contrary to the aim of diversification of the economic base . |
| 28 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 29 | The clear message behind this and so much more of national policy at present is that teachers can not be trusted . |
| 30 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |