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 | 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 . |
| 5 | When this was done opposite effects emerged for generally risky and generally non-risky junctions . |
| 6 | Manual assembly with ‘ stand alone ’ automated equipment was less expensive , less risky and more flexible — and was therefore a better fit for the business . |
| 7 | If reparation were more consistently pursued we should have a much more civilized and morally acceptable penal system than the present one . |
| 8 | Haydn Gwynne , looking uncannily like Meryl Streep , makes a rather better-groomed Robyn than expected , versatile , spirited and wholly watchable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm very cross at the way you dismissed PagePlus as ‘ extraordinarily unbalanced , primitive and even quirky ’ ( February issue ) . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But today it is entirely French and justifiably proud of its thoroughly French style of wines . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a very mystical and very powerful number , although twelve is more frequently found . |
| 16 | These range from the notion that creativeness reflects the same warring psychological tendencies that are responsible for insanity to the intriguing , though question-begging , idea that some mad people are simply labelled as geniuses because of their apparently mystical and divinely inspired qualities of thought . |
| 17 | The photocopying of typed sheets , although relatively expensive , gives clear and reliably consistent copies . |
| 18 | Yet against this sombre background ( so matching the experience of the hard pressed Christians in Rome of the 60s A.D. , for whom Mark wrote his Gospel ) two clear and closely linked rays of light shine out . |
| 19 | The afternoon sun on my back was gently warming and the light that it cast on Chola 's and Mina 's faces was as clear and richly brown as amber . |
| 20 | But but , you should also be be sure that the form tutor pro can clarify things for parents because although , no no matter how hard you try to make this erm , a clear and easily understandable document it 's only clear and un easily understandable to us . |
| 21 | It seems not unreasonable to argue that in a modern primary school all staff , and especially those with formal responsibilities of any kind over and above the class-teacher role , should have clear and properly negotiated job specifications . |
| 22 | Very clear and pretty complete account really of , of what I 've you to cover but it was quite a lot of ground erm she went over and er some of it may be less easy to understand than other bits . |
| 23 | In case ( c ) the law is not so clear and frequently other factors are present out of which a consideration for the promise can be manufactured . |
| 24 | We have reviewed the final text of the Memorandum prior to its release to third parties and confirm that to the best of our knowledge and belief it is true and accurate in all material respects and is both clear and not misleading . |
| 25 | Thus , if it issues an investment advertisement only to business investors , FSA-authorised persons , FSA-exempted persons or relevant European institutions ( see page 37 above ) , the requirement under the COB Rules to apply appropriate expertise and to ensure it is clear and not misleading will not have to apply ; but that requirement will apply if the firm indicates that it is a member of the SFA , and s 47 of the FSA ( misleading statements ) must always be remembered . |
| 26 | C , on the other hand , has to be clear and reasonably accurate ; and for him the historical terminology must be correctly used . |
| 27 | Outside the night had turned clear and bitterly cold , and the stars were massed in all their intolerable profusion . |
| 28 | If we value active and exploratory ways of learning we need to provide worthwhile , substantial , clear and well structured representations of ideas for children to explore . |
| 29 | present factual information in a clear and logically structured manner in an increasingly wide range of situations — discriminate between fact and opinion , and between relevance and irrelevance ; |
| 30 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |