Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our thanks are also , of course , extended to , who has so professionally , purposefully and cheerfully dealt with hiccups such as the extra numbers at the first seminar and so on . |
| 2 | The pragmatist might acknowledge this point but would offer the further thought that , under normal circumstances , it is unlikely that a flea 's stray garment could be mistaken for anything else , and that the flea. its garments and any other intimately associated paraphernalia would be more sensibly and helpfully handled as a single record . |
| 3 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 4 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 5 | In fact , Byrne knew better and eventually resigned without making another move because he realised that he was due to be mated within four moves ! |
| 6 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 7 | When the horse reared as Ana 's had done it seemed to grow in stature , holding the stance endlessly and then leaping into that strange jump , its forelegs not touching the ground . |
| 8 | Though his contact with Mary had been brief , formal and in no public way at all suggestive , disgust at the thought of Miss Skelton and her world suddenly and urgently spilled into his mind and he excused himself rather roughly — so abruptly , in fact , that a careful inquest was held among the company to uncover what possible offence he might have taken . |
| 9 | There , in the early days of contact with whites , young men and minor chiefs excluded from positions of authority in the traditional establishment were suddenly and unaccountably seized by capricious water-spirits . |
| 10 | The Goblin King , Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain , infamous old Goblin Warlord and Lord of the Crags , was suddenly and unexpectedly struck by what could have been a big rock were it not for the sploshy red stuff that exploded from it , showering the goblin horde . |
| 11 | These are often known as ‘ snap ’ rings as they will suddenly and obviously snap into place as the pipe is pushed into the sleeve . |
| 12 | It is almost as if all the punishment , admonishment and educative pressure which the aboriginal child has been spared up to this moment is suddenly and simultaneously inflicted on him ( here , for once , the masculine pronoun does not embrace the feminine because initiation is an exclusively masculine affair ) . |
| 13 | In fact , they were not joints of meat at all , but pagan gods and goddesses , grotesquely and beautifully carved from roughly-cut haunches of woodland trees . |
| 14 | He found Catherine Crane competently and tactfully assisting with operations , and as he came to stand beside her realized she was so cold that she was almost shuddering . |
| 15 | She moved on gently and presently disappeared with disconsolate-looking shoulders down the corridor beside the kitchen . |
| 16 | ‘ But you have n't any , ’ she mimicked , and gently and competently dealt with the wound . |
| 17 | Answer the three questions below and then look at the photograph on the right . |
| 18 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 19 | A further difference is that the other language , English , is not learned naturally and probably has to be ‘ taught ’ rather than simply acquired through access . |
| 20 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 21 | This concept , brilliantly and amusingly elucidated in book of that name published the previous year by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson , stated : ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion . ’ |
| 22 | As a tourist spectacle it welcomed over 3.5 million visitors in 1988 alone and now ranks as the North West 's premier tourist attraction . |
| 23 | They notice that , even more puzzlingly , a child may stumble in reading aloud and yet recall with accuracy and insight . |
| 24 | A members ' club was obviously and clearly envisaged from conception , rather than a private company club as at Huntercombe . |
| 25 | It is , however , the case that any sentence other than the first in a fragment of discourse , will have the whole of its interpretation forcibly constrained by the preceding text , not just those phrases which obviously and specifically refer to the preceding text , like the aforementioned . |
| 26 | In Volume Three of Capital ( Marx , 1972 ) , in the tantalising unfinished fragment on ‘ Classes ’ , Marx notes that even in England , where ‘ modern society is indisputably most highly and classically developed in economic structure … the stratification of classes does not appear in its pure form . |
| 27 | He knows the precise needs of our hearts , in such a unique and personal way that we experience the remarkable conviction that we are being personally and intimately addressed by his word . |
| 28 | Since the Government have supported independence in Russia , Lithuania and other parts of the world , when the people of Scotland democratically and peacefully vote for independence , what will the Government say to them ? |
| 29 | He began to write verses and at the age of seventeen , in sending a sonnet to his mother , declared his resolution that ‘ My poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God 's glory . ’ |
| 30 | Gastric pits become progressively deeper and more convoluted from the proximal cardia to the distal pyloric region . |