Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , events of this century have shown how suddenly and dangerously a fascist group can burst from the fringes of political life . |
| 2 | But while the UK has become suddenly and significantly a net exporter of oil it has gradually lost its self-sufficiency in gas . |
| 3 | I could hear Sorley thumping around inside and then a distinctive whine and a sort of humming stutter . |
| 4 | And she used to sleep in and then a little bit after that she went to live in Liverpool with my grandmother and went to work there so s I I s I was the sort of erm eldest one at home then you know so I felt as if I was more or less responsible for looking after my mam sort of thing . |
| 5 | A ‘ good ’ book is basically and essentially a good story . |
| 6 | At club level these divisions are often relaxed as all boards sail together and only a maximum sail size rule is imposed . |
| 7 | The blizzard had swept on and now a full moon hung low in the dark-blue cloudless sky . |
| 8 | The Irish Football Association 's scheme to sell tickets in a double package with those for November 's big match at home to the Republic has paid off and now a five-figure attendance is expected . |
| 9 | This bristling empire built on the bones of peasants and political prisoners and denying the most fundamental rights to the workers themselves seemed more and more a mere mirror image of the capitalist system rejected by western radicals . |
| 10 | Nobody suffered more than Hignett — looking more and more a Premier League thoroughbred , despite only six games in the top flight following his £500,000 transfer last month . |
| 11 | The stoical attitude of philosophical resignation replaced the old Roman polytheism which had become more and more a meaningless formality . |
| 12 | It is more and more a high tech event where the general public and even the family concerned have little , if any , role . |
| 13 | The Black Country in its early days was still country , ‘ a countryside in course of becoming industrialised ; more and more a strung-out web of iron-working villages , market towns next door to collieries , heaths and wastes gradually and very slowly being covered by the cottages of nailers and other persons carrying on industrial occupations in rural surroundings ’ . |
| 14 | And our ideas about the energy crisis also seem to have been borne out — with enough new oil reserves discovered to allay fears of imminent exhaustion and with the nuclear energy debate becoming more and more an ideological issue . |
| 15 | Three more lids were shut and boxes returned home and finally a large pinch of the selected substance was taken to the right nostril , another to the left . |
| 16 | Following this congenial ‘ knowledge elicitation ’ phase , the IAS creates automatically and immediately a working protype program . |
| 17 | So I said , frankly , all I 'll get is your laundry , another cup , saucer and plate to wash up and probably a great deal more you-know-what than I need ! ’ |
| 18 | Either the imaginary has been ignored altogether , in which case Irigaray is mistakenly described as a biological essentialist ( Sayers , 1982 , p. 131 ; 1986 , pp. 42–8 ) , or else it has been interpreted as purely and simply a Lacanian concept , in which case the conclusion is that Irigaray has misunderstood or misread Lacan , and has not taken on board the implications of his theory ( see Mitchell and Rose , 1982 , pp. 54 6 ; Rose , 1985 , pp. 136 , 140 ; Ragland-Sullivan , 1986 , pp. 273–80 ) . |
| 19 | I also procured on my voyage out and home a magnificent Collection of the procellaridae and noted with accuracy the different Lati[tude] and Long . |
| 20 | By that time there were brothers and a sister playing about the floor of the nursery in Hampstead , and now and again a new baby in the cradle . |
| 21 | Er every now and again a wee sugar cube . |
| 22 | The costumes were for the most part composed of homespun cloth of native dye , though now and again gay neckerchiefs — the manufacture of the south country — gave liveliness to the head ; while now and again a bright-coloured shawl was pinned across the shoulders of the women . |
| 23 | The flame rose untrembling in the still air ; now and again a persistent insect would fly round , in , round and away . |
| 24 | Every now and then a new game appears which sends the press wild with appraisal and is usually followed with a roaring applause at the ECTS annual awards ceremony . |
| 25 | In the distance Louise could hear the music from the rave and every now and then a shrill cry broke the night . |
| 26 | Now and then a circulating pirate might come face to face with a Familo thug , and there would be some ritual snarling and glaring . |
| 27 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 28 | Now and then a fine drizzle of sulphuric acid droplets may fall , plus other cloud particles , and the occasional thunderstorm high overhead can give a heavier rain . |
| 29 | People will tell you there 's normality here and there is , but every now and then an abnormal thing happens which is quite horrific . |
| 30 | Familiar with , which is basically the piece of legislation , which is still in force now and still a major problem for us , which is about getting Council Rent 's up to the level of private sector rent 's and forcing Council 's to do that . |