Example sentences of "[adv] and [art] " in BNC.

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1 The advice concludes , however , with the observation that ‘ this situation should be looked at sensibly and the prohibition outlined above must not be allowed to jeopardise the patient 's health .
2 The last word came out fiercely and the force of it set off a slow noise from the crowd , like surf on a beach .
3 Pearce rounded on him fiercely and the policeman held his arms wide in supplication .
4 If the Christians do eventually deliver a true case of satanic child abuse — and , who knows , God forbid , they may , for satanists are real enough and a bit of copycat crime is surely due after all this publicity — it will be seen by many to validate all their arguments .
5 There is experimental work to show that a week or ten days may not be long enough and a fortnight to three weeks is probably the best theoretical period .
6 Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle .
7 Jack might be jolly enough and a fine fellow when spending his hard-earned cash ashore , but he very quickly became " Poor Jack " when , after months cooped up at sea , he found himself fleeced by prostitutes , brothel keepers , slop-sellers and crimps for no better reason than exploitation of his hunger for female company and his desire for entertainment and refreshment .
8 She was n't skilled enough and a tram ride lost him to her .
9 By 1971 the facts of central area deprivation were clear enough and a set of disjointed and somewhat tentative initiatives in the older , inner parts of our big cities unfolded ( Home , 1982 ) .
10 Beaverbrook and Churchill agreed with him that Britain had compromised enough and the issue of economic control of air routes could be decided later .
11 It seemed innocuous enough and the client only wanted some basic drawings for approvals .
12 For cattle , a single strand is generally enough if the shock is strong enough and the animals properly trained to respect it .
13 As luck would have it , the light was n't good enough and the shots did n't come out .
14 Even that was not enough and the Courthouse held a fourth congregation .
15 The whole horse militia of Westmorland and northern Lancashire , and all the militia of Cumberland , were drawn up in front of the little Lake District town , under the chief local landowner , Lord Lonsdale , and with 10,000 men they easily outnumbered the rebels , but a mere sight of Forster 's advance guard was enough and the whole body fled in terror , leaving the field littered with horses and arms .
16 Where all the needles are working , you are knitting full needle rib and the yarn needs to be fine enough and the tension right , to allow the machine to knit I used Bramwell 's 3-ply duo for this at tension four on both carriages .
17 Stockings were never long enough and the tension between suspender and stocking-top would result in spring-loaded legs ; if you had to run for a bus , the legs would keep going for three stops .
18 He had played steadily enough and the fact that the Lions were able to outwit the All Blacks in that series had little to do with Mains ' ability .
19 It was peaceful enough and the slate roofs shone in the soft , evening light , but it was still a hideous place , the oldest boy thought : ugly houses and black pit machinery and smooth cones of slag , meanly dark against the green mountain .
20 If the compartment is large enough and the bag is small enough , you can put the whole bag in the compartment , tear a small hole in it and immediately slide the glass across before the ants have had time to escape .
21 In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant .
22 But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous .
23 At the present deductions are subject to considerable doubt , for the detailed properties of landform have not been studied carefully enough and the fundamental aspects of most geomorphic processes are still poorly understood .
24 If the appreciation is high enough and the price is possible then a purchase results .
25 Nevertheless , the chair he was sitting in was soft enough and the recorded harpsichord music sufficiently soporific to calm the anxieties and lower the defences of most people .
26 Dysart had said Cornelius was older than his contemporaries at Breakspear and this man did indeed look nearer fifty than forty , unruly iron-grey hair framing a gaunt high-boned face , the brow hooded enough and the nose sufficiently hooked to add a sinewy hint of predacity to his relaxed and smiling features .
27 And she was supposed to be a witch right enough and the men from all round about here er had a meeting about it and they I think met at the barn of Dale .
28 But then she would expl exude an atmosphere , the house could breath evil through her walls if she concentrated hard enough and the smiles would be wiped off the faces of those to whom money was no object .
29 says clearly the total is n't good enough and the campaign goes on .
30 Mosley said : ‘ We 've been listening long enough and the time has come to do something about it .
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