Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The nature of the court 's work There had been a tendency largely to disregard applications as being incidental to the main task of deciding appeals and as not significant in themselves . |
2 | In its statement finally agreed early on May 9 the Collective State Presidency ( i ) banned for one month the movement of armed formations and civilians other than army and federal police at " crisis flashpoints " in Croatia , and between mainly Serbian areas and other parts of Croatia ; ( ii ) ordered the immediate demobilization of all police reservists in Croatia and the surrender of their weapons ; and ( iii ) set up a commission including Croatian representatives as well as " legitimate representatives " of Serbs from Croatia to investigate the causes of the crisis including " the right of a nation to self-determination including secession " . |
3 | Standardisation needs to take place at another level as well ; this time amongst computer-using historians who are willing to attempt collective decisions about what information should be encoded in a machine-readable document and about how encoding decisions should be recorded for posterity and secondary analyses . |
4 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
5 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
6 | and about how many words we want from each one . |
7 | Filling in more detail on the Environment Protection Bill for the coming session of Parliament , Mr Patten said the public would be given more access than ever before to information about industrial pollution and about how individual firms would be obliged to clean up their operations . |
8 | It is as much about who I am as it is about how I look , and about how difficult it is for women to separate the two . |
9 | The first thing to notice is that Ullman builds implicit assumptions about the physics and geometry of the real world , and about biologically normal viewing conditions , into the computations carried out by the visual system . |
10 | which is about the future and about as accurate as any forecasting of the future turns out to be , a robot agitator is formed in the shape of a young woman . |
11 | And I was going to consult you , but really Algeria is a long way away , and you never seem to be in Paris … so , yes , I sold some rather boring stock that was as safe as Fort Knox and about as immobile , and invested in de Chavigny . |
12 | A small defiant kitten against a Great Dane and about as effective , she thought tiredly . |
13 | ‘ A bit like digital watches with musical alarms , and about as useful . ’ |
14 | There were ten gardeners and about as many indoor servants . |
15 | Since the days when he first settled at Yarrundi to farm sheep and cattle on the fertile Liverpool plains , Stephen Coxen had accumulated a substantial tract of land amounting to about 12,000 acres and about as many head of livestock . |
16 | The studio was large , low ceilinged and about as broad as it was long . |
17 | She keeps their home as clean as a refrigerator and about as warm . |
18 | The other driver at Benetton , Martin Brundle , still has a Toyota Dealer 's Haircut — which is to say it 's reliable , functional and about as distinctive as a Camry — or is it a Corolla ? |
19 | ‘ We were kids , were n't we , and about as unrealistic as only kids can be ! |
20 | This sort of nasal overdrive sound , reminiscent of a blocked sinus ( and about as difficult to get rid of ) , dogs many a small combo amp and I was surprised not to find it in abundance on both VGs . |
21 | The system 's recent flexibility is too much like that of a tent in a hurricane , and about as reassuring . |
22 | She looks like a double helping of pink blancmange , and about as exciting . |
23 | Mogadishu , once known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean with its whitewashed buildings , leafy streets and pretty pavement cafes , is now more bullet-battered than Beirut and about as safe as a saunter through an Iraqi minefield . |
24 | Miriam was five and about as different from Amina as possible . |
25 | This situation was widely held to be responsible for Australia 's slowness in adopting new technology — automation in the motor industry was far less advanced than in western Europe — and for persistently low levels of labour productivity . |
26 | The Court of Appeal said that the press should have been allowed to remain : " … the public generally are interested in cases of this kind , and for not unworthy reasons . |
27 | Consequently , and for thoroughly laudable reasons , there had been a systematic drift of responsibility from MC ( ‘ to its executive subcommittee , MMRC , between 1979 and 1984 . |
28 | gets under way on Saturday the thirtieth of October , and for just seventy five pounds , you can be on board the M S , which 'll be your floating hotel for three days of relaxation and entertainment . |
29 | Edward VI had n't reached sixteen years of age before he died , in July 1553 , and for just nine days Lady Jane Grey was considered to be Queen Jane , but the country was not prepared to accept her as Queen . |
30 | Long copy can work , for example , for durables , especially cars , for financial services and products ( you need both information and reassurance ) , and for slightly unfamiliar holiday products like Club Mediterranée . |