Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jersey looks feminine but natural with pointelle and lace trims , contrasting perfectly with tougher fleecy lumberjack checks , bodywarming waistcoats and luxuriously padded and quilted parkas . |
| 2 | But you are also very funny and strippingly caustic and not too ruthful about what seems contemptible to you , or tiresome . |
| 3 | What we have in ( 5 ) might be improved in a number of ways so as to deal with questions and indeed objections , and thereby complicated and indeed greatly complicated . |
| 4 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | I like to play various stuff from GN'R , Clapton , Bettencourt , Metallica ( particularly James Hetfield ) and mostly Rossi and Parfitt from Quo . |
| 6 | Linking girls in with the characters of Lord of the Flies , I am sure that there would be many Ralphs , a Jack of a different nature but leading to the same results , and eventually one or two Rogers . |
| 7 | And effectively three and a half to four foot off the ground . |
| 8 | The screws knew I was vocal and articulate and had by then got my own way to a fair extent by being incredibly polite and incredibly persistent but not actually stepping out of line . |
| 9 | The concepts of a right and a liberty ( as opposed to freedom generally ) probably originated however , in systems of juridical law , and it is in legal systems that they have their most subtle and interesting applications and most thorough and detailed elaborations . |
| 10 | But the shock is nothing to their profound distaste at the circular photocopy letter telling me it was NO — not even signed and not even on a sheet of proper printed letterhead — for a job marketing one of the oldest and most prestigious and national professional bodies ! |
| 11 | The official 's duty is to have in mind the best and most effective and efficient means of carrying out the council 's decision . |
| 12 | Ironically , it was here , says Sacks , that he Trotskyists were most active and most effective and their significant increase in strength may at least in part be attributed to a sense of frustration and anger with the ICP who had , willingly or not , abandoned the cause of independence . |
| 13 | By insisting that ‘ with the exception of the instinct of self-preservation , the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper ’ he in effect undermined one of the basic assumptions of ensuing generations of archaeologists and more especially of prehistorians , namely that cultural advance can be adequately accounted for primarily in terms of utility at the level of subsistence and technology . |
| 14 | This is often the case in relation to listed and quoted companies because the IPC of the ABI has issued guidelines limiting the amount of unissued share capital over which there is a s80 authority to one-third of the existing issued share capital ( see its memorandum dated 10 September 1992 ) and most listed and quoted companies follow these guidelines . |
| 15 | The Scottish data are the most recent and most reliable and they show that the lower socio-economic groups are more likely to be both admitted to hospital and to stay longer than the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 16 | The heathland had suddenly ended — to give place to an expanse of emerald green , which looked bright and most attractive but which , Cheryl realised with a shudder , concealed treacherous shifting marsh . |
| 17 | There is such a fine line between the distinctive and downright ugly and unfortunately these fall into the latter category . |
| 18 | Japan was both militarily and economically vulnerable and the lack of outside support for her resistance to great power domination reinforced a sense of national isolation which originated in national myth , grew in the seclusion period and was strengthened by an awareness of the cultural divide between Japan and the West . |
| 19 | High illiteracy rates and a chronic lack of skilled manpower meant that the new government regarded educational provision as politically and economically important and popular demand for it at all levels was considerable . |
| 20 | He seems sensible and rather nice and he knows what he is talking about . |
| 21 | At first it was cool and rather pleasant but as the day wore on , the temperature in the room rose . |
| 22 | The conversation is curious and rather contrived and , like most of the conversations in John 's Gospel , is Christocentric — that is , it points to the mystery and glory of Christ . |
| 23 | This may sound ominous and rather exaggerated but there is no doubt that a major alteration in your personal life as well as your career is imminent and unavoidable . |
| 24 | She was long-legged and rather awkward and did n't do things quickly even when she got started ! |
| 25 | I saw it erm I ran it — I ca n't remember why I was running it , oh I think I wanted to look at an actor erm , oh no , it was at a festival and I had to sit through it and I was very disappointed in it , I found it slow and rather obvious and erm a little lacking in bite . |
| 26 | She was sandy-haired and rather fat and usually wore blue or grey tweeds , though with the passage of years she had become comfortably indifferent to dress . |
| 27 | Often seen at press receptions and " at homes " for a client and his products , journalists from the women 's magazines may appear young and rather silly or matronly and gentle . |
| 28 | To Floy , they were beautiful and rather frightening and immensely powerful . |
| 29 | It was all carefully arranged and rather neat and I felt reasonably satisfied with myself . |
| 30 | The slick editing and second-hand New Wave tricks can not save the film from being too thin and too contrived , and rarely amusing or touching enough . |