Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
| 2 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 3 | This ageing will vary with the spirit ( higher-distillation-proof spirits need less age because they have less flavour ) , the material of the cask ( whether it is new or used and how deeply the interior is charred ) , the size of the cask ( which determines the wood-to-liquid ratio ) , and the storage conditions ( which are affected by temperature and humidity ) . |
| 4 | The well was dry and shortly thereafter the Marathon licences in Northern Ireland were relinquished . |
| 5 | Even small changes in how fast and how far the contraction spreads can have profound effects on form . |
| 6 | So we were caught like a lot of other people in not predicting just how fast and how far the land sales er prices would actually go down . |
| 7 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 8 | The losses at the Battle of Sagrajas had been great and not even the addition of El Cid 's men could make it anything like as strong as it had been before the coming of Yusuf . |
| 9 | Sun and salt water are equally drying and a combination of all three can prove harmful to your hair leaving it looking dull and frizzy and very much the worse-for-wear . |
| 10 | An advertising writer , he 's energetic , articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit . |
| 11 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |
| 12 | The larger the battery capacity , the faster and more deeply the charge/discharge can occur . |
| 13 | These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work . |
| 14 | I said she had been trained properly , I was telling them just basically about Claire in general and just about the good of erm , things like things you like to talk about , and erm , so I just , I said , they cried poverty , I said , but you know , one minute she 's driving her old banger , and the next minute she 's got a K reg and outside the , |
| 15 | Objections on the grounds of time often disguise a more fundamental problem which concerns teaching in general and not just the objectives model . |
| 16 | We then tried to rent a garage ( long and thin and hence more the shape of a church ! ) but this fell through too . |
| 17 | Last night , a spokesman for the Lord Chancellor 's Department said : ‘ The secure area of the court was refurbished in 1989 and as always the Home Office was consulted throughout the proceedings . |
| 18 | The fuse again is correct and not only the fuse but the wiring is in good working order . |
| 19 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 20 | Calcretes developed in this way are thickest and at the greatest depth in the soil profile in areas of 100 400 mm ( 4–16 in ) of rainfall especially on the temperate margins of deserts ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) and become thinner and much nearer the surface in the arid regions proper . |
| 21 | The silence of the night brought a feeling of unease ; the normal rustlings of nocturnal creatures were absent and not even the hoot of an owl nor the choughing call of a pheasant disturbed the stillness . |
| 22 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |