Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This very small trichostrongyle ( 0.7-1.0 mm long ) occurs in the stomach of cats , pigs , wild felids , foxes and occasionally domestic dogs . |
| 7 | ‘ Superior stylistic settings and often terrific process effects are largely wasted by the limp , lifeless pacing of adapter-director William Sterling , ’ wrote Variety . |
| 8 | It also gives the animal unusually short front legs and long hind legs , and an abnormally small anus , so that it hops along like a rabbit and suffers from constipation . |
| 9 | It was by the celebrated Matthew Buchinger , born in Germany without legs and only short stumps of arms without hands . |
| 10 | Walkers with rucsacs have created a path through these Arctic forests , a highway that reflects the profile of a backpacker — narrow around the legs and very wide around the rucsac . |
| 11 | An outsize dark bluish-purple Moorhen , with no white line on flank , longer red legs and very large stout all-red bill ; juvenile greyer . |
| 12 | Also has thinner bill , darker legs and less rufous on wings . |
| 13 | The thigh-length silk robe he wore , his bare legs and still wet hair told her he had showered , and that very likely he wore nothing beneath that covering but his skin . |
| 14 | A quarter of his adult male informants and nearly two thirds of married females said they were virgin at the time of marriage . |
| 15 | His blistering turn of speed , cavalier attitude and rank bad discipline made him an instant hit with the fans and yet another scourge for the beleaguered authorities to cope with . |
| 16 | All the victims killed during this year 's competition were fans and not professional riders . |
| 17 | The shot comes in , a brilliant strike , Palace take the lead , it is , bends it away , goes and takes the salute of the Palace fans and not surprising on the quarter of an hour mark , because Palace have done the pressing and gets the goal , bending it away from a despairing dive to his left of , and Palace stamp their superiority a their authority on the early stages . |
| 18 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 19 | The kouroi and early female figures all carry the aura of the block 's four faces ; the geometric basis of sixth-century East Greek sculpture is curved forms : sphere , ellipsoid , cylinder , cone . |
| 20 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 21 | These are really the products of symbiotic relationships between forms of fungi and either blue-green or green algae . |
| 22 | Dampness and lack of ventilation are as welcoming to insects as they are to wood fungi and once these conditions are rectified the beetles will feel less inclined to stay . |
| 23 | Action should focus on the training needs of all new recruits and continually developing and improving the skills of existing employees . |
| 24 | Note that there is not total standardisation between manufacturers and not all pipes and fittings are compatible . |
| 25 | That was back in the days when there were too many manufacturers and too few customers . |
| 26 | Challenge headed north towards the fishing vessels off Burwick Holm , which were illuminating the island with their searchlights , in heavy and near-continuous rain squalls and only one-mile visibility . |
| 27 | Even so , they are willing fighters and very able bowmen . |
| 28 | Old nursery stories like Mrs Goat And Her Seven Little Kids and Little Red Riding Hood are updated and sharpened and are read by Sir Michael Hordern at his most misanthropic , his growliest and his most comical . |
| 29 | We girls wore starched white aprons and very uncomfortable they were too . |
| 30 | So there was a sharp contrast between relatively committed Mirror readers and relatively uncommitted Sun/Star readers despite their similarities in terms of class and education . |