Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 2 | Rothbury ceased to be clerk of the council when he was appointed a justice of the court of King 's Bench in 1295 , but he remained clerk of Parliament till at least 1307 and perhaps as late as 1314 . |
| 3 | But my Commanding Officer brought up an important issue : the question-raising ambiguity of my relationship to Richard : he had another home and his father was still alive ; it would be better and easier all round if I adopted him . |
| 4 | The curists still come , it seems , to drink , gargle or bathe in the baths at the top of the town , but since the end of the last war the cure has been democratized ; in an age of health insurance many can afford it who before could not , and contemporary spa-goers both demand less and live less expensively than their more frivolous predecessors . |
| 5 | Edward never proposed to me , I never ‘ accepted ’ him , yet here we are just as much engaged and much more so than lovers of whom I have read . |
| 6 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 7 | Not only are a majority of those retiring today fitter , more skilled and better off financially than any previous generation , but with early retirement increasingly becoming the norm , a great many of us can realistically look forward to 25 years or more of active life ahead . |
| 8 | Glasses washed in dishwasher were streak free , bright and generally far better than those washed in the sink . |
| 9 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |