Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of taking attitudes as relatively straightforward guides to behaviour and expressed as opinions , they sought to measure attitudes more as dispositional and rooted deeper in the personality . |
| 2 | The chief monument in the country is the Cathedral of Pécs ( Fünfkirchen ) , rebuilt about 1150 and restored mainly in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 4 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |
| 5 | Moreover , there was nothing egalitarian about the set-up and there was no expectation that the state would do much and interfere extensively in the " private " sphere of power and economic arrangements : these were seen as best left to the unseen hand of " impersonal " market forces . |
| 6 | Demetriades looked bored and nodded complacently in the pauses . |
| 7 | Sorrel , asleep on the settee , suddenly became alert and looked expectantly in the direction of the kitchen . |
| 8 | All of the characters are strong and stay basically in the same tone except for Estella who undergoes a very sudden character change in the revised ending . |
| 9 | We were impressed that the tachygastria in our patients with neuropathic pseudoobstruction was both persistent and raised consistently in the fasting state . |
| 10 | Position markers of mother-of-pearl are inlaid offset in the rosewood , and their diminutive size once again departs from the traditional and scurries off in the direction of the new , though there 's garish or clumsy about them . |
| 11 | Those for the Corporation were ordered in February 1902 and delivered later in the year , costing £825 each . |
| 12 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 13 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 14 | This chain successfully bound Fenrir until Ragnarok , the Day of Judgement , when he broke loose and ran amok in the heavens , swallowing ODIN whole . |
| 15 | In this condition , the sufferer experiences either constipation or diarrhoea , often in association with excessive abdominal bloating and sometimes pains , usually cramp-like and situated either in the middle or lower part of the abdomen . |
| 16 | The adult males and females live alone and meet only in the breeding season . |
| 17 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 18 | The table was enormous and gleamed redly in the candlelight . |
| 19 | She remembered the tea-time throng before the war , when she was ten and working illegally in the Biscuit Factory near Bridgeton . |
| 20 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 21 | I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion . |
| 22 | Taken and imprisoned and held fast in the black depths of the Dark Ireland . |
| 23 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 24 | The germs that cause bacterial meningitis are very common and live naturally in the back of the nose and throat . |
| 25 | These bacteria are very common and live naturally in the back of the nose and throat of up to 10 per cent of the population . |
| 26 | She pushed the gate further open and peered round in the twilight . |
| 27 | It was true , the old ramblers were both ugly and kitted out in the very best of outdoor clothing . |
| 28 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 29 | If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) . |
| 30 | He had become a major in the military at twenty four and achieved much in the world in prosperity and position , but it had been an uphill climb . |