Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The detailed and well-researched Most Wanted list includes EIGHT of the Premier League 's dynamic performers .
2 They were engaged upon this when Roger arrived , and he was so friendly and jolly tonight that Breeze took him into her confidence .
3 The fact that between 1866 and 1870 almost one quarter of the entire uniformed strength of the Metropolitan Police were dismissed because of misconduct gives some indication of the social organisation of policing in this period .
4 In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp .
5 Sluggish and crude horizontally scrolling action .
6 Altogether between 1962 and 1976 about 255 Hen Harriers were recorded , 220 of them between 1966 and 1976 .
7 Group 3 , 105 men of Troops 5 and 6 under 3 Commando 's second-in-command Major Jack Churchill , were waiting for the Maaloy batteries to open up as the craft ran towards the beach .
8 of children aged between 11 and 15 still used tobacco .
9 It was also recommended that early subject specialisation should be discouraged ( although study in depth was still desirable in the sixth form ) ; and that two clauses from the 1944 Act which affected older pupils should be implemented , namely the raising of the school leaving age to 16 and compulsory part-time further education in county colleges .
10 They 're hoping that her first and only really successful film , Desperately Seeking Susan , was not a fluke .
11 This would make them respectively the first and fifth most popular tourist arractions in the world , with the ones in between being the three existing Disney theme parks .
12 The nine other sites are ’ — we 'll just put because they 're not in , writing this thing — ’ and they will open from the first of May nineteen ninety-one between nine and six p.m. each day of the week .
13 This is mainly because erm there are so many diverse services that might help in the erm general support and education of a special child that integration is necessary and that really one person should be keeping an eye on things , as it were .
14 Oh yes when I went to Stronsay Academy first we were very much kids for the country being all this country ones and often we 'd sometimes be and said some terribly wild and woolly awfully countrified phrase you know until pride sort of came to our rescue when we we got out of it as much as ever we could .
15 Certainly , the arrival of an uninvited and unwelcome mathematically obsessed visitor would hardly be inclined to keep anyone at home !
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