Example sentences of "[num ord] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them . |
| 2 | It was the Howards who were responsible for the daring architectural refinements of the late sixteenth and very early seventeenth century . |
| 3 | The second and most substantial part of the project will be an investigation , through direct interviews , of the strategies of the major international suppliers in Europe , the USA , and Japan . |
| 4 | The second and most important divining technique involves an oracular substance ( benge ) which is credited by the Zande with possessing the power of distinguishing between contrary propositions and thus solving human dilemmas . |
| 5 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 6 | I also must add that as far as the war moved to its close , crews became increasingly better ; the output of the Empire Air Training Scheme gave us crews with more experience ; second and even third tours crews were returning to Operations ; and in the final phase , in daylight , the casualty rate dropped dramatically . |
| 7 | Second and equally important , as Fratter ( 1989 ) also asks , can parents release and mourn a child to whom they are attached or to put it more bluntly , can parents mourn a child that is not dead ? |
| 8 | Second and equally important , for there is no ‘ first ’ and ‘ second ’ class research , is that body of information about schools — you might call it a ‘ professional inventory ’ , which is as important to a curriculum planner as statistics are to a ministry planning officer . |
| 9 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 10 | The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion . |
| 11 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 12 | A second and more serious objection to this definition concerns the impossibility of completeness in another direction . |
| 13 | With the Hanoverians secure on the throne ( especially after the defeat of a second and more serious Jacobite revolt in Scotland in 1745–46 ) , with the grant of a considerable degree of de facto toleration to the Dissenters , the questions which had dominated internal politics in the reign of Anne appeared to have been settled . |
| 14 | A second and more serious line of criticism is that the empress 's claims to real enlightenment and concern for the welfare of her subjects are shown to be a hollow pretence by the intensification and geographical extension of serfdom in Russia during her reign . |
| 15 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 16 | The second and more troubling event has left me — the self-styled , experienced , capable , worldly-wise individual — in a moral dilemma with no idea how I should respond . |
| 17 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 18 | The second and more exciting aspect is that , when it does so , the direction of spin is not affected : if the initial spin was clockwise , it will still be clockwise even after the toy has turned over . |
| 19 | The second and more common approach involves breaking or segmenting each cursive word into sub-parts . |
| 20 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 21 | In the Outer Hebrides there is , however , a second and more urgent suggestion of deceit , as this poisonous plant looks very much like water-cress , and therefore one could be deceived into eating it , with disastrous results . |
| 22 | By the following year he was working on his second and more notorious venture into magazine publishing , Oz , with Richard Walsh from Sydney University , and a gifted young student graphic designer , Martin Sharp . |
| 23 | Sales and profit growth ( up by 17% and 34% respectively ) remain perfectly respectable on a second and more detailed viewing — indeed , the increase in sales was commendable in a very tough year for trade publishers — even if the operating margin of 6.8% and pretax margin of 1.9% were well below the promise of 10% held out when the company was launched in the optimistic mid-80s . |
| 24 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 25 | Second and more fundamental : is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending ? |
| 26 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 27 | The second and more important lack is that of any real constitutional analysis of the crisis . |
| 28 | A second and more important ergonomic feature is the indentation directly above the tacker nose . |
| 29 | To the liberal ‘ scientific ’ mind , a solution of this second and more important slippage would involve a strict limitation on police and judicial discretion and less stigmatization either by decriminalizing some behaviours , or imposing less incarceration ( Schur 1973 ) . |
| 30 | There is a second and more important way in which corporate organizations and wealthy individuals use financial muscle to weaken electoral competition , namely , their ownership and control of the mass media . |