Example sentences of "and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility . |
| 2 | This is both regrettably limited and frustratingly hard to interpret . |
| 3 | Relating a question to the text of a given hexagram is often a difficult and frustratingly obscure business ; that 's why you need someone like me . |
| 4 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 5 | Jay smiled from her shadow , admitting a lazy , faint and wholly delicious curl of desire . |
| 6 | Haydn Gwynne , looking uncannily like Meryl Streep , makes a rather better-groomed Robyn than expected , versatile , spirited and wholly watchable . |
| 7 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister 's wife , Clarissa , appears in the story as an aggravating factor : ‘ He [ the PM ] rang up Clarissa , who is becoming his unofficial and wholly bad press adviser , and asked her advice . ’ |
| 9 | In all you say about parents and children living in sweet sympathy and perfect knowledge of each other , in freedom of speech , comrades , friends confiding in each other , telling all and being listened to , and taught , in all this I entirely and wholly agree . |
| 10 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 11 | The fall of birds is meant to be seen as quite ridiculous and wholly supernatural in its proportions . |
| 12 | So I soon turned away , regretting only the loss of the shiny new tenpenny piece which I had inserted into the coin box to avoid any irritating boop-boop-boop cutting in to what I had stupidly hoped would be an uplifting and wholly encouraging conversation about my work and prospects . |
| 13 | Scholarly ink , mixed with scholarly gall , was poured forth upon this fascinating and wholly insoluble mystery . |
| 14 | On 11 May 1559 Knox preached his great and wholly inflammatory sermon in St John 's Kirk in Perth , producing mob riot not only in the church itself but also in the Black and Grey Friars and the Carthusian monastery , all of which were sacked . |
| 15 | Noël Coward was inspired to write the song ‘ London Pride ’ while standing on the platform of a London station on the morning after a particularly bad blitz and seeing Londoners going about their business ‘ gay and determined and wholly admirable ’ . |
| 16 | It was ludicrously swollen , unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea . |
| 17 | The effect of this regrettable and wholly arbitrary restriction is that , for a senior executive , an unfair dismissal claim may provide only a very limited redress for the losses resulting from the unjust ending of employment . |
| 18 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 19 | The Board of Palatine Ales plc , which is being advised by Purchase and Szell , regard the offer as both unwelcome and wholly unacceptable . |
| 20 | We have resisted the temptation to link up with any beauty product firm simply because we want our panel of experts to give you nothing but honest , impartial and wholly unbiased advice . |
| 21 | He dismissed the threat of fining schools as arrogant nonsense and wholly inappropriate . |
| 22 | That happy and wholly characteristic confusion of fact and supposition makes his criticism as readable , at times , as an eccentric novel by a country gentleman more at ease at a hunt-ball than in a classroom , at a levée than in a seminar . |
| 23 | It is also the meaning of the doctrine that he alone was perfect and wholly free from sin . |
| 24 | Each story is unabridged and wholly authentic ; together they offer natural conversations , television interviews and presentations , and embrace a cross-section of regional accents and age groups . |
| 25 | The material is unabridged and wholly authentic . |
| 26 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 27 | The regiment traces its history back to the Siege of Carroburg in 1865 , when it mounted a valiant and wholly successful defence of the walls in the face of a huge army led by the Count of Middenland . |
| 28 | The Iroquois had , he reported , a ‘ system of classification of kindred , both unique and extraordinary in its character , and wholly unlike any with which we are familiar ’ . |
| 29 | That was a part of the Horton and Banstead strategy and wholly consistent with its philosophy of local care ’ . |
| 30 | Such an utterly formal , undefinable and wholly unanalysable concept of ‘ ought ’ is necessary if law is to be regarded as normative and if the positivist proposition that law may have any content is to be sustained . |