Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Relaxation gives a punch an extension of an inch or so and therefore extra penetration towards the target .
2 Erm you find that more and more constant repetition , each time you go back to it , there 's less that you 've forgotten , less that seems new and more that seems obvious and you 'll be saying to yourself , sort of m You know of course Yeah I do n't need to read this , tat 's obvious that 's obvious .
3 Seen without the concealing hood , the Robemaker 's face was mutilated and eaten away , so that here and there white bone gleamed .
4 The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made .
5 The , the longer and more and less precise answer would be presumably , human psychology has evolved in such a way , as to allow us to make those kind of judgments that would normally be reliable .
6 The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is .
7 The main and more or less stable plate that dominates the area is known , hardly surprisingly , as the Pacific Plate ; surrounding it are a number of equally large , or smaller plates such as the Australian , the Nazca , the North American and the Cocos Plate .
8 The first is a simple , unscaled and more or less subjective feeling of whether it is expensive or cheap .
9 Here not only do the sediments preserve a continuous and more or less uniform record over the disputed boundary , but the faunas ( most notably the monograptids ) went on happily evolving , oblivious of the great things that were going on elsewhere .
10 When people wished to resist this ranking they went to some lengths to do so in a symbolic and more or less public way .
11 Henceforth , of course , there would be a need to promote Vietnam to the position of an established , legitimate and more or less popular state deserving of US assistance .
12 I shall suggest however that the philosophical framework which allowed the fathers to have a Christology which could be in some way inclusive of women has disappeared ; and moreover that even patristic Christology does not solve the problem .
13 discounting : it is argued that we attribute our first impressions to the person ( e.g. to a person 's traits or abilities ) , and later or more recent information to the situation ( e.g. the task , environment , influence of other people ) .
14 And now that specifically Italian form , the madrigal , was born .
15 Like a small Snipe with a much shorter bill , two narrow instead of one broad pale streaks on crown , and slower and less erratic flight , dropping down much sooner into cover .
16 No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game .
17 If we assign positions to particular instances of discourse we find firstly that there are many intermediate cases , and secondly that absolutely nonreciprocal discourse is unlikely .
18 Erm our estimate of the proportion of of agricultural land in the county which would be classified as best and most versatile land , that is having a considerable er weight in planning decisions grades one two and three A , is between thirty and thirty five percent .
19 What now follows is a list of museums ( many with archives ) which specialise in material of general as well as narrowly local moment .
20 His office desk was supplied with Playboy as well as more esoteric porn .
21 The petty bourgeoisie of shopkeepers and self-employed tradesmen needed to keep accounts even if only of a primitive kind , but the growing fraction of permanent journeymen among the artisans grew into a more literate as well as more skilled elite section of the labouring classes .
22 Encouraging women to first express and then try to ‘ let go ’ of their previously suppressed fears and anxieties — usually through visualisation techniques and helping them to attain very deep states of relaxation — can , she maintains , eventually eliminate phobias , depression , psycho-sexual and reproductive disorders , as well as more general tiredness and tension .
23 The AMA did recognise the advantages of timber-frame houses , namely that they are often quicker and , in some respects , cheaper to build ; other benefits can include a higher standard of insulation as well as more economic use of on-site labour .
24 They meet under the auspices of the National Association of Coordinators of Community Languages in order to develop their expertise : a number of colleagues within this body have advocated the setting up of a recognised DES course to provide a further exchange of ideas as well as more official guidance to team leaders and coordinators .
25 While this change was designed to attract investment from domestic sources as well as more foreign capital , it was expected to be particularly welcomed by Japanese , South Korean and Taiwanese companies .
26 For our part , we intend to produce a third Update on general SVQs in February 1993 , as well as more informal news and information between now and then .
27 Pratten ( 1976 ) , for instance , concluded from a detailed comparison of Swedish and British companies that negotiating procedures in Britain , as well as more fragmented union representation , contributed to the lower labour productivity of some UK companies .
28 This includes any director 's or consultant 's fees you may still be receiving , as well as more obvious income .
29 When considering agreements between multinationals with worldwide interests , account can be taken of their relationships outside the EC so that an economically as well as legally correct assessment can be made .
30 Cnut inherited from his royal Scandinavian and English predecessors relations of an often threatening as well as potentially profitable sort with a very wide range of territories .
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