Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governments were supported by economic theorists in applying the prescriptions of short-term equilibrium analysis — and thereby supposedly maintaining at or near the full employment of resources — as the means for achieving long-term growth . |
| 2 | In the latter two cases the objects concerned can be given spatial co-ordinates and thereby unequivocally distinguished from any other particulars of the similar sort . |
| 3 | The humans below tried shining coloured lights at it , and playing tunes at it , and eventually just speaking to it in every language known to humans . |
| 4 | We know something of the ways in which ‘ huskers ’ and amateur street performers were progressively controlled and eventually almost eliminated from the cities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 5 | They spend months on end continuously on the wing , feeding by catching insects in mid-air , mating by coupling high in the sky and tumbling downwards interlocked for hundreds of feet , and presumably even sleeping on the wing . |
| 6 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 7 | For those keen to travel around , the wonderfully mountainous region of Calabria is close by and most easily explored by hired car . |
| 8 | While the above arguments suggest that the link between payment of the domestic rates and services received will lead to greater expenditure , it should be noted that domestic rates are one of the more obvious and most easily perceived of all taxes . |
| 9 | The second , the role of enlightenment thinking in the subsequent history of European despotism , is the particular focus of interest for the German critical theorists , most memorably and most forcibly articulated in Benjamin 's ‘ Theses on the Philosophy of History ’ . |
| 10 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 11 | It is interesting that such distinctions are most clearly and most confidently made in relatively complex and highly specialized societies . |
| 12 | As a result her remains one of the least known and most infrequently discussed of our younger composers ; and it 's thus immensely encouraging to see one of his major pieces appear on Collins Classic 's new flagship ‘ 20th Century plus ’ collection . |
| 13 | There are several drugs available which are highly effective at eliminating trichomonas from both sexes , and metronidazole is both the earliest and most widely used of these . |
| 14 | 1968 ) has become one of the best known and most widely used of all language tests . |
| 15 | The smallest and most strikingly coloured of the true geese , with a very small bill , chestnut throat , breast and face patch , and rest of plumage black with white lines , including broad one on flanks conspicuous at a distance . |
| 16 | The wealth of information collected and most ably synthesised in the project 's report was used as evidence on which to base suggestions for possible key topics round which teaching could be based . |
| 17 | In Europe , it was the older trees — over 60 or even 100 years old — that were first and most severely affected by the new Waldsterben . |
| 18 | All these actors have development strategies , articulated and most actively propagated by ‘ modernizing elites ’ of one type or another ( see Gereffi and Wyman , 1987 ; Lewis and Kallab , 1986 ) . |
| 19 | This is one of the largest , most effective , and most highly reputed of the global inter-headhunter associations , with over 100 consultants in 29 offices in seventeen countries including Australia and Japan . |
| 20 | Very often the jobs in TNC factories are among the best paid and most highly valued in developing countries . |
| 21 | Many would concur with the case most recently and most substantially argued by V. A. Kolve , that the Miller 's and Reeve 's Tales contrast with one another in these terms : the former full of liberty and light ; the latter replete with dark moral shades and tones . |
| 22 | The pioneer of this kind of approach is Kit Martin , who has successfully rescued and converted a series of great country houses including Dingley in Northamptonshire , Gunton in Norfolk , Callaly in Northumberland and most recently Tyninghame in East Lothian . |
| 23 | Generally the commonest medium-sized brown owl ; predominantly nocturnal and most often detected in daytime hunched up in its tree roost , being mobbed by smaller birds , when can be distinguished from Barn Owl by dark brown face and underparts and from Long-eared and Short-eared Owls ( p. 179 ) by black eyes and lack of ear-tufts . |
| 24 | Indonesia is one of the largest and most rapidly developing of the new states , of considerable economic and strategic significance to the rest of the world . |
| 25 | Leaving aside the relics of the African slave-trade ( now illegal and rather effectively strangled by the British navy ) , the bulk of international migrants were Europeans , or more accurately in this period western Europeans and Germans . |
| 26 | Although publicity shy , he recently and rather reluctantly agreed to be interviewed in his cottage . |
| 27 | Much of the pain centres upon the LEA ; a structure which was pivotal and which is rapidly and rather messily ceasing to be so . |
| 28 | Work references from a licensed dealer are of dubious value , and rarely even asked for . |
| 29 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 30 | With regard to the latter , it should be noted that many Glasgow deaf church members around that time were very religious and so strongly disapproved of drinking that they formed their own temperance Society , the Glasgow Mutual Improvement Society . |