Example sentences of "[adv] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly some customers do n't consume their products sensibly and drink-driving is a prime example . |
| 2 | Fleece covers can be used for 2 or 3 seasons if handled sensibly and storage space is minimal . |
| 3 | Sex has n't changed , men have n't changed enough and motherhood shrouded in poverty is what it always was — gains and losses . |
| 4 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 5 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 6 | If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% . |
| 7 | Debt-free and so not hampered by high interest rates , they are nimble enough and liquid enough to take advantage of the recession . |
| 8 | I could never run fast enough and day-dreamed too much . |
| 9 | The most natural thing in the world … and had we but world enough and time , my love … |
| 10 | The house had been a rectory once , large enough and plain enough to contain a rector 's brood . |
| 11 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
| 12 | Getting the right result has not lost its importance , but it is no longer enough and attention has to be given to the wider service . |
| 13 | She left the bitch in possession and took her evening meal up on deck — the evenings were just warm enough and light enough . |
| 14 | Certainly ‘ professionalism ’ is beginning to be viewed sceptically and competence is no longer assumed . |
| 15 | In a different context , writing of the 1780s , Grétry again implies that active direction was maintained in both solo and ballet music : |
| 16 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 17 | These , for Moore , have little or no intrinsic value , and their investigation belongs to the practical branch of ethics concerned with which among possible actions will have the best consequences , rather than to the more fundamental enquiry into the nature of the intrinsically better and worse which it presupposes . |
| 18 | Some people are capable of doing better and will if judiciously kicked into it . |
| 19 | In the 1970s the odds had lengthened against effective leadership from the White House ; there had been a succession of failed presidencies public confidence in political institutions had slumped disastrously and congress had become even more difficult to deal with . |
| 20 | Every four minutes daily between 8am and midnight . |
| 21 | He was soon helped by Madra and Isay , and the trio worked with a will in the growing twilight as the snow came down more thickly and visibility worsened . |
| 22 | It felt like I was inside and part of a huge virtual reality machine . |
| 23 | The Robemaker is n't here — I know he is n't here — and we shall find a way to get inside and Nuadu will be there and we shall bring him out . |
| 24 | Josie was laying out makeup brushes on the table , and did n't look up as Lucy stepped inside and half-closed the door behind her . |
| 25 | So physiologically what happens is that the principal flux through the channel is that of sodium , and that 's simply , although although the er channel is non-selective it 's simply because the sodium is at high activity outside , low activity inside and potassium is reasonably close to equilibrium . |
| 26 | I was anxious to get inside and nose around her furniture . |
| 27 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 28 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 29 | There were two main forms that TTT collaborations could take in the classroom : working alongside and withdrawal . |
| 30 | There may be the odd skirmish , but for the most part we 're happy to live alongside and respect one another 's lifestyle 's . |