Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 2 | Environmentalists claim that there is insufficient evidence to argue that dioxins are not harmful and therefore the precautionary principle should be enforced , and a ban be placed on all chlorine bleaching . |
| 3 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 4 | The finish was as accurate as the rest of the Belgians ' efforts had been wayward and suddenly the numerical disadvantage Rangers were working under threatened to be a severe handicap . |
| 5 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 6 | Rolf Hüppi , Zurich 's chief executive since 1991 and once the prime mover behind its multinationals business , sees a day of reckoning ahead for Europe 's 4,000-plus insurance companies . |
| 7 | Mr. J. C. Walker was formally elected Treasurer and retained that role until 1929 and similarly the Pro-tem Secretary , Alfred Caldecott , was confirmed in the post , jointly with R. Lindsay . |
| 8 | The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment . |
| 9 | More generally , prices could be sticky and yet the major implication of the flexible-price model developed in chapter 4 could still be true . |
| 10 | The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year . |
| 11 | A trade conflict with Spain — allies of France — arose in 1734 and soon the old animosity between France and England came to the surface . |
| 12 | Authoritative , expecting obedience , quick and then the slow smile . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a left and then the right cut in so I had to straighten out . |
| 14 | So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later . |
| 15 | Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity . |
| 16 | The second was formally liquidated in Europe between 1848 and 1868 , though the situation of the impoverished and especially the landless peasantry in regions of large estates in southern and eastern Europe often remained semi-servile , in as much as it remained subject to overwhelming non-economic coercion . |
| 17 | Because of the raging personal computer price war , the European market started to expand strongly in 1992 and now the Japanese market , despite its general economic sluggishness , is also expanding . |
| 18 | A brick beneath him crumbled and suddenly the whole wall began to sag . |
| 19 | It is true that the Whigs did their best to exploit the Jacobite " bogey " , and their demands for an oath requiring peers , MPs and office-holders to abjure allegiance to James II and then the Old Pretender caused some embarrassment to those Tories who had only been prepared to recognise William as de facto King . |
| 20 | The maitre d'hôtel was not impressed and eventually the Japanese boy , like the others , had to admit defeat . |
| 21 | We give it a drink of water when it 's thirsty and then the tiny flower begins to grow . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe you were tempted to take handheld shots on telephoto — perhaps with a very good reason , lions in a zoo are not very approachable and often the only way to shoot them in close-up is with a long-focus lens . |
| 23 | As trading becomes less and less directly connected with physical trading floors , or even a particular trading system , the rulebook becomes more and more the key determinant of the exchange 's identity and objectives . |
| 24 | They were n't the kind of people who could get themselves together and organized , it was a more and more the bottom end of the scale and people who were actually erm you know , really powerless in many ways . |
| 25 | The coffee pot , jug and pepper pot were among items stolen in a burglary of a house in Aiskew , Bedale , between 1.30pm on March 8 and 1.30am the following day . |
| 26 | Investors should be aware that these securities are irredeemable and therefore the real return in future years is vulnerable if the UK inflation rate rises again . |
| 27 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 28 | Today it is far and away the leading stout in Malaysia . |
| 29 | For the first and almost the only time in the Second World War , there was what can fairly be described as a generally pervading popular ‘ war mood ’ , disdaining any premature and presumed over-generous peace with Britain , and even somewhat disappointed with Hitler 's new and ‘ final ’ peace offer of 19 July , aimed at assuaging world opinion . |
| 30 | Torrance was the winner at nearby Penina in 1982 and again the following year at Troia near Lisbon , and showed his liking for Portuguese courses by finishing fourth here at Vila Sol on the Algarve last year . |