Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind this and approximately where the recreation ground is now , was the village Butts , where in days past the villagers practised their archery . |
| 2 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 3 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 4 | However , they are most unlikely to solve the problem of excessive delays , partly because the limits themselves are so generous and partly because the prosecution is free in any event to ask for additional time . |
| 5 | There were no more dances in the balere to distract me ; partly because it was difficult to move freely from one village to another and partly because the evening curfew still applied . |
| 6 | It is both clearer and faster than the question and answer technique which many systems employ , and should be determined by the operation number entered . |
| 7 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |
| 8 | With 24 teams competing in 52 matches staged over more that four weeks , this year 's World Cup competition in Italy will be the largest and longest since the tournament began in 1930 . |
| 9 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 10 | Use of the section is purely optional and even if the company adopts it each member must be sent copies of the full accounts and reports if he wants to receive them . |
| 11 | Apart from the community stocking budget being spent on just a couple of fish , the upkeep of many of my big fish is actually cheaper and easier than the community systems . |
| 12 | Darren has called the AA twice : once when the battery went flat and again when the distributor cap became soaked after the car was driven through flood water . |
| 13 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 14 | ‘ If we can have a full house this time that will be great and even if the crowd does n't scare them , it will certainly lift us . ’ |
| 15 | The young man stood as stiff and straight as the church columns around him . |
| 16 | Because a regression session is longer than one involving simple hypnotherapy , the patient tends to relax more and more as the session goes on . |
| 17 | Honours came thick and fast as the world recognised his achievements . |
| 18 | Whichever way I turned looked bigger and wider and further than the other . |
| 19 | This country faces an enormous crisis which stretches wider and deeper than the recession . |
| 20 | Generally , much will depend on whether the client is buying up-market or going down-market and also whether the client is raising a mortgage . |
| 21 | Certainly , this broader remit seems eminently sensible , partly because the existence of strict demarcation lines between advanced and non-advanced further education is harmful to both and partly because the distinction between them will become more blurred as and when the provision of recurrent and continuing education is expanded . |