Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex would seem to be one , but you will be discussing this and hopefully doing a fair amount of reading on the subject . |
| 2 | He waited until the Ilyushin was clear and then started a slow turn to his right , using the power on the left engine in conjunction with the rudder . |
| 3 | I He was very good-looking and fast became a popular idol — ‘ As Paris handsome and as Hector brave ’ , according to a contemporary poetaster . |
| 4 | It is likely that the implication of mothers Saving effort or time over the care of babies produces some anxiety ( guilt ) in them , unless the rationale is very acceptable , For the housewife , however , being economical and especially finding a particular way of reducing expenditure gives Satisfaction . |
| 5 | Before the album 's release will come a single , ‘ Your Loss My Gain ’ , that 's neither particularly immediate or commercial and so makes a surprising choice to re-establish him in the public domain . |
| 6 | This ‘ material of the future ’ comes in white and brown and simply needs a quick wash when dirt collects . |
| 7 | Get people along get the information networked and also to maintain a political presence amongst the people who are writing to or potentially to vote for us . |
| 8 | All students will be expected to submit a brief report of their project by September 1993 and also give a short presentation at an event to be arranged in October 1993 . |
| 9 | The vast series of dolerite sills which have intruded the Karoo sediments of southern Africa underlie an area of over 500 000 km 2 and probably constitute a total volume of in excess of 200 000 km 2 . |
| 10 | The contribution principles should be insurance ones , involving the employee , the employer and the state as before , but the coverage of the scheme should be universal and therefore involve a national pooling of risks . |
| 11 | The best thing would probably be just to walk around to keep warm and then to snatch a little rest in a doorway somewhere if need be . |
| 12 | Baptized on 31 August 1673 , the younger Daniel Coxe emigrated to America at the age of twenty-eight and thereafter took a prominent role in the affairs of West New Jersey . |
| 13 | Indeed there is a case for saying that it is the mix of ions of opposite polarities that makes the resonance formula adaptable and actually causes a self-tuning resonance . |
| 14 | That 's carried , fifty votes to thirty six and now becomes a substantive motion . |
| 15 | The statistics in these countries contained too few births to women aged 45 and over to permit a useful assessment of the interacting effect of older age and birth order upon late fetal mortality . |
| 16 | It does not ensure that the buyer will acknowledge the debt or indeed settle the invoice when due and therefore demands a great deal of trust between both parties . |
| 17 | Cut down on the use of heated appliances such as dryers and tongs if possible and ALWAYS use a protective product beforehand . |
| 18 | He is about fifty and still has a full head of jet black slicked-back hair , Elvis-style . |
| 19 | This seems very improbable , though it would have been consistent with his character to reject an organized challenge to the social order but to appreciate and even think of emulating and thereby vanquishing a personal one . |
| 20 | It 's called a Yak , and it 's fast , agile and already proving a big favorite with pilots . |
| 21 | Someone may be very unintelligent and yet have a good sense of hope or trust or love whereas someone else who is highly intelligent may yet have a relatively poor facility in these senses . |
| 22 | But in either case there was a tendency for such borrowings , whether they were syllabuses , textbooks or examinations to become fossilised and consequently to represent a historical rather than a current picture of British educational practice . |
| 23 | Still on the Loire is the impressive Abbey of Fontevrault , founded in 1098 and originally covering a tremendous area with four convents and supporting buildings of which a number remain . |
| 24 | It has not proved straightforward to obtain the services of appropriate staff , and although work has now commenced in each of the areas mentioned , it is difficult to predict when development will be complete and thus give a firm date as to when information will be available to allow colleges to plan for the introduction of new courses in session 1989–90 . |
| 25 | Think in terms of putting a one in front of that and then moving a decimal point two places and it 's one point four five . |
| 26 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 27 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 28 | Until the autumn of 1976 , the £6 fiat-rate increase for wages and salaries below £8,500 , agreed by the TUC General Council by a narrow margin in July 1975 , held firm and clearly played a major part in the sharp reduction of inflation that year . |
| 29 | He also denies that on the night of the same day while posing as a taxi driver he attempted to rape a girl aged 18 and later raped a 22-year-old woman . |
| 30 | In a modern legal system where there are a variety of ‘ sources ’ of law , the rule of recognition is … complex : the criteria for identifying the law are multiple and commonly include a written constitution , enactment by a legislature , and judicial precedents . |