Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having to take children along imposes both a physical and mental burden ; there is the problem of managing children and shopping simultaneously , and the housewife 's attention is distracted by the need to pacify a crying child or by the knowledge that a baby in a pushchair is parked out of sight . |
| 2 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 3 | She says according to Trina she says eh I , I , I did n't er , er , I wanted , knocked them back seven hundred thousand , but they would only , would only knock back a hundred and fifty |
| 4 | Ahead of him stretched the future , and this time , instead of a summer landscape full of lush green fields , it suddenly took on a closed and wintry air . |
| 5 | there 's no extra labour , I normally charge about a hundred and thirty pound for each wing , that 's two hundred and sixty er eighty pound for the bonnet , well about a hundred pound for the bonnet , that 's three hundred and sixty then er , forty five quid for the slam pan , that 's it |
| 6 | A good example is Dances With Wolves which cost us four thousand as a and has already sold over a hundred and twenty thousand copies . |
| 7 | Thus , in many cases we can not have both a true and fair view and an unfudgeable figure ’ . |
| 8 | It still incorporated both a zoological and a botanical garden , but now had an extensive research and teaching function . |
| 9 | You have heavy commitments , a flat on which you probably spent over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds , a Porsche to run , and a suitably lavish way of life , no doubt . |
| 10 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 11 | A detective writer sets out to track down a shadowy and fascinating villain in the Levant , and the intrigue and tension tighten a notch with each passing chapter . |
| 12 | That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect . |
| 13 | Ironically , they began as buskers , working the same Irish streets that now offer up a hundred and one variations of their roots ' music . |
| 14 | Excitement indeed ! and it even caught up a sober and spiritually distanced Quaker who could not " find words sufficient to draw it in colours strong enough " but has left a useful description of a phenomenon which seems to have lasted for several weeks , " when the great noise subsided , but the fire still existed " . |
| 15 | He joined the Palace in the summer of 1961 , and immediately struck up a superb and exciting partnership of ball-playing skills with Johnny Byrne , as newly promoted Palace made an immediate impact upon Division Three . |
| 16 | According to one of the skippers , each hunting trip cost on average over US$130 more than the crew received for the catch — the fishermen were simply carrying on a proud and noble tradition , even though it cost them money . |
| 17 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 18 | In public sector organizations , the distinction sometimes takes on a lesser and sometimes a greater importance . |
| 19 | So far Martin 's taken you through how to put together a logical and effective training session . |
| 20 | So far we have briefly explained how a free-floating and a rigidly fixed exchange rate system are supposed to operate . |
| 21 | Moreover , rather than simply reflecting a stronger relationship between risk and memory at higher levels of risk , the relationship visible in Figure 4.6 actually has both a negative and a positive component . |
| 22 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |