Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos that 's how you measure jobs when you in erm When you 're sort of managing projects or something or so many man hours to build this and then so many man hours to do this and then so many man hours to do that . |
| 2 | Cos that 's how you measure jobs when you in erm When you 're sort of managing projects or something or so many man hours to build this and then so many man hours to do this and then so many man hours to do that . |
| 3 | For weeks it would go on like this and then suddenly one day you would notice him just lying in the sun instead of studying his map , or reading a novel instead of his German grammar . |
| 4 | The store had a peculiar and not altogether wholesome odour , a cross between a creek when the tide is out and the smell produced by the local sewage works . |
| 5 | ‘ . In the W coastal dunes and heaths , estuaries , sandy , muddy and less often rocky seashores , rarely far inland ; in the E by brackish or more rarely freshwater lakes and inland seas . |
| 6 | The treatment of the two sisters as objects for possession and domination is given a further and perhaps more insidious turn by their mother , Eleonora , who by ‘ serpentizing Fraud ’ uses her daughters to gain political advantage . |
| 7 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 8 | … it seems that to pick £600 as a threshold for life governors because of the provisions of Gift Aid is to ignore a less brutal and therefore more acceptable way of achieving Life Governor status while still enabling the Institution to recover income tax . |
| 9 | It was a lament which registered the weakening of a moderate , socially philanthropic evangelicalism in the face of the more strident and ultimately more bigoted brand associated with Irving and Drummond outside the church and the Recordites within it . |
| 10 | The second , the Fawcett Award , was in recognition of an outstanding achievement in the field of women 's education and marked the impact of the ‘ Women in IT ’ programme aimed at returning unemployed and largely academically unqualified women to employment in the expanding field of Information Technology . |
| 11 | THE Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland has two demanding and very often unrewarding jobs . |
| 12 | In typical instances , in the cities a widowed and formerly more prosperous grandmother might still be living in a larger , now empty house : thus a Liverpool labourer and saltpacker 's family moved in the with grandmother , who kept a secondhand clothes shop . |
| 13 | It seems as if the Opposition flounder almost every day in their responses to the charges and questions that we put to them , and I very much hope that they will clarify their position on national insurance charges on high and not so high incomes — and on whether any increases will be phased in . |
| 14 | The vegetarians said the cage , five feet high and just over three feet wide , was a true representation of the conditions chickens face . |
| 15 | The old and still very popular variety ‘ Old Blush China ’ is reputedly ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ of the nineteenth-century poet Thomas Moore , no doubt due to its remarkable reluctance to stop blooming each autumn . |
| 16 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said David , grinning at her , ‘ and I shall go on trying to show him that Socialism is a fairer and much more just system than Capitalism . ’ |
| 17 | The attack is usually concentrated in damp and more easily edible wood such as built-in bonding timbers , the eaves ends of rafters and the vearing ends of beams and trusses . |
| 18 | The tendency to contract arises from the both the polymer-polymer interactions and the resistance to expansion of the chain into over extended and energetically less favoured conformations . |
| 19 | It presented an extended and more clearly structured form of much which already existed . |
| 20 | One of the things I again would like to see in schools is that sort of approach , which brings out what language is really about , and I think that that 's an exciting and possibly quite unexpected outcome of bringing computers into schools , but it will require that we do n't simply think of it as being ‘ oh , let's have a micro in the science lab ’ ; it is going to be as the government seems to recognise , a step involving curriculum design , involving helping teachers _ really , really helping them in a strongly supportive way — to do something which is , I would say , revolutionary . |
| 21 | In this astoundingly popular and not altogether unpersuasive book , Miss Edwards sponsors a pedagogical programme designed to diminish the influence of linguistically determined ways of seeing the world . |
| 22 | A four-mile path meanders round the lake in the centre of the park ; our project was to lay red shale on a popular and consequently very worn stretch along the north side . |
| 23 | Older people identify improvements in material circumstances such as housing , diet and general prosperity , and improved and more widely available health care , as the reason for improved health . |
| 24 | The second dorsalmost arm spine is the longest and maybe nearly 3 arm segments long . |
| 25 | There is an ancient monument at Karnak in Egypt which carries the most detailed and probably most extensive example of the ‘ unkindest cut of all ’ , when King Menephta took awful revenge on a Libyan army he defeated around 1300 BC . |
| 26 | The trends outlined above are , of course , only broad averages to set the scene and so attention is now turned to more detailed and more specifically geographical studies . |
| 27 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 28 | Indecency is a much broader and more widely used category of offence . |
| 29 | Some cultures emphasize the values of cooperating with others , conciliating opposing views , and being prepared to compromise and submerge one 's own ideas in a broader and more popularly acceptable solution . |
| 30 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |