Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 2 | The A one six eight between Dishforth and Thirsk still has the contraflow in place between the A one and the A nineteen and finally just a reminder that er contraflow on the A one at Catterick is causing southbound delays of between five and six miles . |
| 3 | In Type II the prevalence of clinical disease is comparatively low and often only a proportion of animals in the group are affected ; mortality in such animals is very high unless early treatment with an anthelmintic effective against both arrested and developing larval stages is instituted . |
| 4 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An advertising writer , he 's energetic , articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit . |
| 7 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |
| 8 | The larger the battery capacity , the faster and more deeply the charge/discharge can occur . |
| 9 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 10 | It deserves a star for its interior alone and maybe even a second for the brilliant horseradish mousse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large . |
| 13 | 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 , |
| 14 | The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs . |
| 15 | I recall someone complaining about those little cartoon drawings of you lot , I would just like to say that I think they are very comical and nowadays virtually every computer magazine has them ( except for crappy ones like Amstrad Action ! ) . |
| 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 | Quite delightful and quite probably a monster hit . |
| 18 | Obviously , there are limits to how long options can be kept open and fairly soon a commitment will have to be made . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |
| 21 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 22 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
| 23 | 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 . |