Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agree heartily with those that assert that IBM 's mid-range groups could embarrass and even hurt the company 's mainframe division by fielding impressively more clever and vastly more efficient computers . |
| 2 | A good public transport system would be cheaper , faster , safer , more comfortable , and vastly more efficient in energy and space . |
| 3 | No left at home left at home with the washing nice and properly like in fact going to do yours . |
| 4 | The concerts at 3pm and 7pm tomorrow will mark the second event of its type to be held in Darlington . |
| 5 | The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end . |
| 6 | It was large and double-fronted , and conspicuously well kept . |
| 7 | Nik Cohn , the writer , described him as , ‘ an amiable fatman from Catford , a bit of a slag and conspicuously so but shrewd , funny and hard to dislike . ’ |
| 8 | Male dark grey , with some white on flanks , and conspicuously long broad tail . |
| 9 | Uninterested in material things , and conspicuously more at home in jungles than in drawing rooms , he possessed a sweet distinction of bearing which impressed itself on all who met him . |
| 10 | The second kind of implicatures come about by overtly and blatantly not following some maxim , in order to exploit it for communicative purposes . |
| 11 | They will argue that such job creation as may have taken place is temporary and artificial , that the cost of achieving even this was too high and that it would have been cheaper and industrially more advantageous if people from development areas had been forced or encouraged to move to the prosperous areas . |
| 12 | The yellow variegation found in those of dubious sexual status is bright and jolly too . |
| 13 | And luckily too . |
| 14 | I 'm not actually sure what model it is — I think it 's a 335 Dot — but I 've just been out and bought another one for a spare , and luckily enough it feels exactly the same . |
| 15 | And luckily enough |
| 16 | Throughout our long conversation his head is constantly in motion , eyes darting to and fro consciously avoiding my gaze . |
| 17 | The woman pondered , pushing the baby 's pram to and fro absently . |
| 18 | While Pottz tacked to and fro energetically seeking out the elusive peak , Richie dropped anchor and contemplated the horizon . |
| 19 | Frankenstein was walking to and fro now , muttering to himself . |
| 20 | So , I took my bicycle and was able to ride to and fro daily . |
| 21 | The bottle was in his right hand and he swung it to and fro once or twice , apparently judging its weight . |
| 22 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 23 | Using a southern route , supplies landed at the government-held Red Sea port of Asab were transported by lorry inland to Dese and thence northwards into Tigre , to both government-controlled and rebel-held areas . |
| 24 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 25 | Next , he took each hand in turn , and smeared the greasy oil between her fingers , and thence upwards to the slope of her shapely shoulders . |
| 26 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 27 | From the board powers are frequently delegated to committees of directors or to individual board members , and thence down the managerial hierarchy . |
| 28 | We can , we can put it all under one roof , and the d the design came out er good erm so that you could walk from the end of the , the machine shop was extended and you could walk from there into the catapult shop directly , or straight into the er fitting base , and thence down onto the welding sections . |
| 29 | On the coach , as it headed north up the Woodstock Road , and thence out on to the A34 , the members of the touring party were mostly silent , their thoughts monopolised perhaps by the strange and tragic events they had left behind them in Oxford . |
| 30 | It was their first time in ‘ the West ’ and they intended to cycle on into France and thence home via Belgium , the Netherlands and North Germany . |