Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much less flexing both fore and aft and laterally in the Seayak than in other plastic sea kayaks . |
| 2 | The sky sort of turns grey and then whitey-blue and then in the end it 's daytime and it 's all sunny . |
| 3 | It was difficult to imagine she had bought the dress on purpose , had one fine day long past gone into a shop and tried on dress after dress and , finally , taking this grey and unbecoming tube of cloth from a rack laden with many-coloured garments , slipped it over her head , examined herself fore and aft in the changing cubicle mirror , smiled with pleasure , clapped her hands in approval and said to herself : ‘ This is lovely , this is the very thing , ’ while a curled , perfumed salesgirl hovered , saying : ‘ But it 's perfectly you , madam . ’ |
| 4 | In any event , the character of strictures differs dramatically between those occurring early and late in the course of the colitis . |
| 5 | So far as the main thrust of the honourable gentleman 's question is concerned er he will know that we believe it to be right and indeed in the interests of all the people in Northern Ireland that the British and Irish government should work closely together . |
| 6 | You 're feeling very languid and lazy and not in the mood for ‘ keeping house ’ and barking at all-comers . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents . |
| 8 | Glenn Hoddle is fit and back in the team . |
| 9 | To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder . |
| 10 | Unloved and out in the cold |
| 11 | The domes are not hemispherical but spheroidal in shape and are elongated towards the top ; the pendentives are also elongated and more in the form of squinches . |
| 12 | It has always been quite large-framed and long in the body . |
| 13 | The distribution of their later stone parish churches may give some indication of their more profitable achievements ; they are most numerous and closest in the area north and west of Arundel , with a scatter round Worth and rather more diffuse in the area of the Haestingas , whose forest ridge was less well served by an island river system . |
| 14 | The audience , too , was painfully hungry and yet in the presence of food which was not apparently destined for their stomachs ; this made them feel weak and peevish . |
| 15 | Because no Sunday School teacher is there to see that everyone gets a prize , that no one cheats or that no one is left lonely and out in the cold , there will be casualties . |
| 16 | Fergus , lying sleepless and alone in the Prison of Hostages , could still feel the pain and the bewilderment , and the terrible knowledge that he , who loved Ireland beyond measure , had been a part of her doom . |
| 17 | The most interesting thing for me was walking alone and quietly in the forest and listening to the birds singing , watching them make their nest and feed their chicks . |
| 18 | ‘ Pamela is small-boned and straight in the body with narrow hips , ’ said Jane . |
| 19 | This appears to your Directors to be unreasonable and not in the interests of the Company . |
| 20 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 21 | Surrealism 's often alarming tentacles reached far and deep in the history of modern painting , but nowhere was its influence more multiculturated than in the art of Wifredo Lam . |
| 22 | The mineralisation is of SEDEX type ( Large , 1983 ) with stratabound sulphates , silicates and sulphides occurring in small , third order basins within the Middle Dalradian and especially in the Ben Eagach Schist Formation ( Coats and others , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Then she saw that the verandah doors were open and inside in the shade on two wicker-chairs , talking earnestly to one another , were Rosette and Andrée . |
| 24 | Strong angularity is recognised at the base of the Cretaceous and northwards in the Hewett Sub-basin progressively thicker Palaeozoic and Triassic section is developed below this unconformity . |
| 25 | Nationalisation plans were tentative and not in the forefront of his measures to keep full employment . |
| 26 | But in spite of not having enough money , Sussex is still active and perhaps in the forefront of the scientific research . |
| 27 | The eighty-one plates still extant and now in the possession of the museum of Raleigh in North Carolina , were acquired during the eighteenth century by the French amateur engraver Claude-Henri Watelet who in turn sold them to Pierre-François Basan . |