Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just prior to the vote , Guo Fengmin , head of the Chinese side on the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group ( JLG ) , suddenly and publicly raised the separate question of a planned new container terminal for the port of Hong Kong . |
| 2 | Instead of trying to switch people from the old track we start afresh and just ignore the old track . |
| 3 | The last thing he remembered before falling asleep was the patter , patter , patter of it gently and rhythmically hitting the tiled roof above his head . |
| 4 | Then you gently and gradually work the new feather on , positioning it to match the original plumage as best you can . |
| 5 | Care for your body using the strokes below and regularly massage the different areas you can comfortably reach . |
| 6 | And er he used to pop in and occasionally take the fifth class , whether it was because it was near to his office I do n't know . |
| 7 | In the end I gave in and reluctantly mounted the narrow stairs . |
| 8 | The intention in changing the eating habits of the whole community is to bring the average serum cholesterol levels down and so reduce the overall risk in the population . |
| 9 | The problem with the political-business cycle literature lies in the fact that it attempts to deal with the popularity of governments and the nature of public policy-making solely on the basis of a consideration of economic variables alone and so isolates the economic dimension out of the larger political context and ignores the vital part played by non-economic factors in contributing to electoral success . |
| 10 | Once the cement had set , both filters were placed on their bases and 2″ domestic plastic plumbing line was used to connect them together and also to connect the large filter to the new pond . |
| 11 | As they moved on , the countess constantly and caustically criticised the small rooms , the narrow corridors , the dirt , the cold , the lack of all civilised amenities . |
| 12 | John Brown Engineering , the Crown Agent , Department of Trade and Industry officials et al , who were trying desperately and belatedly to hustle the Kuwaiti government-in-exile in Taif , picking over the bones left by their voracious American allies . |
| 13 | Thus and more wrote the late much travelled T W Perkins in ‘ The Railway Magazine ’ about the Bishop 's Castle Railway after its closure on 25 April 1935 . |
| 14 | We talked with our students about the freedoms of college life , and suggested that they might judge whether or not certain behaviour was ‘ age appropriate ’ by looking at the nursery nurses ( incorrectly and naïvely assuming the latter would unfailingly provide the models we sought ! ) . |
| 15 | Siemens has always modelled its mainframe business so closely on that if IBM that it seems inevitable that the growing antipathy towards IBM 's mainframes would rub off on Siemens customers even without the prospect of something approaching depression in Germany : the coincidence of the two strongly implies that once the company finally and painfully gets the ravaged Nixdorf side of the house straight , it will have to repeat the process all over again on the Siemens side . |
| 16 | These were , however , insufficient to enable them to break through and then turn the German lines . |
| 17 | It was not : for , as we have seen , organised labour very soon and consciously became the necessary reciprocal to employing capital and so constituted with it the developed system which had yet to be called Capitalism . |
| 18 | When the Birds of Australia was finally completed in June 1848 , Gould generously and justly acknowledge the vital role his amanuensis had played in running the entire business while he was away . |
| 19 | If the times at which additions are expected can be predicted , it may be wise to hold additions in an ancillary file until each ‘ burst ’ of activity is over and then to reorganize the main file to include them . |
| 20 | So take the ten away and the you have ten left over and then take the two away from that so eight . |
| 21 | Documentation involved will be completed sensitively and swiftly to minimise the later recurrence of stress and anxiety . |
| 22 | It was Franklin Roosevelt 's extraordinary skill as a communicator that made possible his legendary success ; he campaigned superbly , handled the press deftly and brilliantly exploited the new medium of radio . |
| 23 | You 've got ta say something interesting quite early on and just to bring the whole conversation to where you want it to be . |
| 24 | He went straight out , went to four families , whose names immediately suggested themselves to him , checked his facts and figures , got in while discussion was still on and flatly contradicted the great John and gave him the facts and figures to prove it , to tell him that he was wrong . |
| 25 | If you are still unsure , walk on and then do the same again . |
| 26 | The High Mages of the Elves attempted to stop them , but such was the power of the Witch King 's magic that he slowly and inexorably gained the upper hand . |
| 27 | The PLO Central Council convened in Tunis on Oct. 11-12 and issued a statement calling on the UN Security Council ( already in session on the issue — see below ) to " move vigorously and promptly to contain the Israeli sequence of terror against our Palestinian people " . |
| 28 | Will my right hon. Friend continue vigorously and robustly to negotiate the British contribution to the European budget and , at the end , submit it at a level which the House of Commons and the country can accept ? |
| 29 | Seldom has the passage of time so swiftly , effectively and comprehensively destroyed the intellectual foundations of the main plank of a party 's defence policy . |
| 30 | Formalist theory rigorously and systematically excludes the non-literary , so that where the Anglo-American tradition devotes much of its effort to exploring the different relations between life and art , the Russian Formalists see the two as mutual opposites . |