Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were men from Hanover , exiles who formed the King 's German Legion that had fought so hard and well in Spain . |
| 2 | Justin Silvertown , UK economist at Daiwa said : ‘ The 1% rate cut is highly welcome and broadly in line with expectations . |
| 3 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 4 | GIST teachers were slightly less traditional and more in favour of equality of the sexes than other teachers . |
| 5 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |
| 6 | The site must be central , easily accessible and close to parking facilities . |
| 7 | When this logic was applied to the lower ranks of the armed forces it also carried the gloss that these men were less capable of intellectual control , being more animal and closer to nature . |
| 8 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 9 | He thought that this was ‘ kinder , more humane and more in keeping with informed medical opinion . ’ |
| 10 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 11 | This is not to be dogmatic about answers , but to encourage pupils to reflect on them , developing increasing knowledge and understanding of how religion is expressed , and learning how to make evaluation which is both personal and yet in touch with public enquiry . |
| 12 | All could agree on the need to secure appropriate action from parliament and government , but how far this required agitation of mass support at different times and how much deference should be paid to the judgement and tactics of parliamentary abolitionists were points of tension both early and late within antislavery . |
| 13 | Induction thus provides a powerful means of co-ordinating the behaviour of adjacent groups of cells both early and late in development . |
| 14 | Hair becomes instantly shiny and easier to style WITHOUT greasiness ! |
| 15 | Then he said , ‘ I knew an eagle once who was also ill and close to death . |
| 16 | Though this is probably fanciful and certainly without basis in contemporary record , Jaenberht 's alienation from Offa may have been very real , because of the suppression of Kentish independence after 784–5 and now the partition of his province . |
| 17 | Landing in the Beastie Boys ' swimming pool , I was amazed to find I was both naked and still in employment . |
| 18 | He is very poor , badly deformed and desperately in need of help . |
| 19 | In most southern counties wives earned increasingly poorly and casually from day work in agriculture , especially where arable farming was the dominant or developing form . |
| 20 | In northern parts 1623–24 was equally bad and all over England 1630 was long remembered as a year of dearth . |
| 21 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 22 | The son of the Harijan village President , Sarat was then 18 and still at school , alternating between thoughts of a government job and staying in the village to work on his father 's land . |
| 23 | The principles here are clear , fully Catholic and yet in terms of pre-conciliar Roman theory revolutionary ( not so revolutionary in practice : some sacramental sharing had always continued in parts of the East where ecclesiastical reality had never quite caught up with the theory of ultramontanism ) . |
| 24 | Hundreds — mostly men , mostly young and mostly in militia uniform — mill around in small groups , in silence , moving from grave to grave . |
| 25 | Arguably , many of the Majority recommendations were the more politically and financially feasible and more in tune with popular feeling at all levels . |
| 26 | Fear of rejection by one or both parents experienced in early life will make this person seem outwardly aloof and totally in control , fiercely independent , never showing weakness to the outside world and rejecting others before they are themselves rejected . |
| 27 | Moreover , this ravaging of that part of the publicly owned stock which is most desirable and most in demand is not being made up by new building . |
| 28 | Miss Whitfield , 65 , can currently be seen in BBC2 's Absolutely Fabulous and also in Terry and June being shown on UK Gold . |
| 29 | Most polar fish live in waters at temperature that are very stable and close to 0°C . |
| 30 | The number of patients intolerant of the diet is disappointingly high and together with inability to sustain a prolonged remission , elemental diet treatment does have its disadvantages . |