Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " … a guide for the medical practitioners of both tropical and temperate regions to the origins and diagnosis of infections that are tropical as opposed to being cosmopolitan , and of great value for training and teaching because it reproduces much better and more comprehensively than is possible with ordinary textbooks the appearance of specimens that will be examined … has been prepared with great care and deserves to remain one of the standard texts in the subject for many years . " |
| 2 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 3 | There are many references to our caves but the writers do not seem to have gone beyond the entrances and we are left wondering what they are like inside and most importantly whether they were ever lived in , and if so , by whom . |
| 4 | In many of the Longhorns , however , the horns spread outwards and upwards instead and some have one horn growing in that fashion while the other curves down or one or both forwards rather than upwards or downwards . |
| 5 | The British government borrowed sufficiently and cheaply enough because its reputation for efficient tax gathering allowed anticipated revenues to provide the security for its present borrowings . |
| 6 | There were clusters of robes that seemed to pulsate and breathe , and there were others that slithered sinuously and rather nastily when she approached . |
| 7 | I mean a lot of times you know I think just phone up and say , Is mister so and so there and then guard themselves T N T delivery . |
| 8 | The patient improves after each dose and gradually needs the remedy less and less frequently until he is better . |
| 9 | She sat by her only daughter and watched as she grew thinner and breathed less and less easily until the day came when she could not breathe any more . |
| 10 | She put it so nicely and so firmly that no one seemed to mind too much . |
| 11 | They live together and as far as he is concerned , he will treat her daughter as his own . |
| 12 | The imagination increases in size progressively and usually painlessly until it fills most of the abdomen . |
| 13 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 14 | He had achieved it more easily and more quickly than ever he had expected . |
| 15 | The therapist can not expect to be able to do it easily and accurately straightaway or every time . |
| 16 | Headship is only a tool and one that is used sensitively and less frequently as the goal of oneness nears ( although there are always some who are more enamoured with the tools than the results ) . |
| 17 | Their plans have come to fruition rather sooner and more dramatically than expected . |
| 18 | I know from personal experience that there is nothing more wearing and wearying than continually being knocked backwards and sideways just when you think you have something on the go . |
| 19 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 20 | In thermodynamics a reversible process is one that is carried out infinitely slowly and carefully so that it is virtually in a state of balance at all times . |
| 21 | This exercise must be done slowly and carefully so as not to let the barbell drop from your fingertips . |
| 22 | Stephen tied it up but the string broke and he had to drive the car into Hilderbridge very slowly and carefully so as not to overheat the engine . |
| 23 | Place your thumbs on the chin and pull them slowly and firmly outwards and upwards along the jaw bone to the ear . |
| 24 | There are indications that certain complex carbohydrates such as fibre are converted to H 2 more slowly and less completely than lactulose resulting in an underestimation of the amount entering the colon . |
| 25 | He was not sure if he should tip-toe slowly and cautiously along until he reached the lower grounds of Old Ashfield , or make a sudden dash for it in the hope of outrunning any danger that might be waiting to pounce . |
| 26 | Moving slowly and cautiously so as not to rip any of the rubber components of their diving suits , they passed in file into a compartment not more than four feet in height but almost twenty feet in length , extending from the nose cone , under the flight deck and then several feet beyond . |
| 27 | At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged . |
| 28 | Most High Sheriffs regarded this responsibility as purely nominal , impinging rarely and normally only when a new gaoler had to be found . |
| 29 | He stood up and moved stealthily and warily forward and Snizort saw , for the first time , the sleek , feline grace . |
| 30 | She displays how to build living structures of pictorial importance by weaving individual dancers or groups deliberately and solemnly so that they frequently pause in a meaningful picture of distinctive shape . |