Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's not to me consistent with a view that we have remained detached and apart and able to take whatever decisions we like regardless of our partners . ’ |
| 2 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 3 | People are very understanding and really if you talk to people and have an interesting time , it takes your mind off yourself . |
| 4 | He says in 1 John 1:9 , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ‘ |
| 5 | 1 John 1:9 tells us , ‘ If we confess our sins , he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness . ’ |
| 6 | Only 400 tonnes of fresh and less than 2,000 tonnes of frozen cod , have been landed in the UK by Russian vessels so far this year . |
| 7 | I think it 's just lumpy paint gone wrong and then and they sell it . |
| 8 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 9 | Stand and rehearse in front of a full length mirror , checking that you are smiling and making the right gestures , including liking your glass sufficiently high and forward when proposing the toast so that you convey enthusiasm . |
| 10 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 11 | However , they are most unlikely to solve the problem of excessive delays , partly because the limits themselves are so generous and partly because the prosecution is free in any event to ask for additional time . |
| 12 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 13 | And so I er never went the whole hog that way with thumping the British , British and best and so on . |
| 14 | It would be foolish and unseemly as well as counter-productive for the Prime Minister to enter into an undignified slanging match with him every time he does so . |
| 15 | Around the titles is built a mystique that implies that this quite ordinary product is somehow different and better than anything else on the market . |
| 16 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 17 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 18 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 19 | And the English reader who does not understand that the punning on ‘ Talbot ’ is painful and all but hysterical , like the punning of Shakespeare 's Hamlet , does not understand Pound at all . |
| 20 | As a result of this ‘ myth ’ , however , the very fact of variable spelling in an Early Middle English document becomes in itself a reason for concluding that the scribe was Anglo-Norman and therefore that his spelling can be corrected by editors and ignored by historical commentators and dialectologists . |
| 21 | You confirm that you are acting in this matter as principal and not as agent or broker for any other party . |
| 22 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 23 | They might think they 're getting away with it , a lot of people who , who , I mean being unemployed is n't , you tend , people tend to feel devalued and so if they can think oh , they 've put one over on that , on the er , benefit office , then they 'll go and brag down the pub about it . |
| 24 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 25 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 26 | While interactionists admit the existence of roles , they regard them as vague and imprecise and therefore as open to negotiation . |
| 27 | But there came an evening warm and still when this changed , and Creggan was shocked by what he saw . |
| 28 | The water was warm and still and so very clear that they could see the lights of the suspended arc-lamps even before they dipped below the surface of the darkened Aegean . |
| 29 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 30 | I ca n't leave this district with one man hanged and another killed and somehow because of me . |