Example sentences of "and [adj] [is] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but based upon the surveys that we conducted in er nineteen eighty nine which is the basis of the traffic forecasts , er on and that is just twelve hour two way flows , we have a total flow on the A sixty one north er entering Harrogate of sixteen thousand three hundred vehicles . |
| 2 | I should visit Alida , who is now also alone , and Dorothea , for she has her friend whose name I can not remember , and that is yet another person for me to talk to , make friends with . |
| 3 | As can be imagined , in a place with such grand fishing traditions , people who go there regularly often become associated with particular lochs ; and that is very much part of the charm of fishing at Scourie . |
| 4 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 5 | And that 's just material technology advancing . |
| 6 | and that 's only blue tack . |
| 7 | And that 's only one way to navigate . |
| 8 | Er , that 's whipped cream and that 's like whippy cream that has n't been whipped but that 's , that erm |
| 9 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 10 | Mm and that 's about right place where it is , I wonder if it 's that . |
| 11 | And that 's fairly thin ice on which to skate one 's credibility ! |
| 12 | But Wilde also fashioned his transgressive aesthetic into a celebration of anarchic deviance , and this is yet another factor which makes it difficult to identify the sensibility involved . |
| 13 | These forms of production will increasingly apply to the manufacture of computers — and this is yet another area in which Japanese firms could turn out to have an edge on the rest of the world . |
| 14 | Sometimes it is just one food , or perhaps three or four , and this is yet another example of individuality . |
| 15 | A rising level of real national income in the long-run is called economic growth and this is yet another policy objective of governments . |
| 16 | Yet , for some , physical work at night seems more demanding than during the daytime and this is clearly another disadvantage for the night-worker . |
| 17 | And this is just one room ! ’ |
| 18 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 19 | SuperCalc 5.5 represents an important move towards a graphical user interface and this is very good news for every SuperCalc user who likes using a mouse — or who is prepared to try out a mouse for the extra shortcuts that make SuperCalc 5.5 easier to use than its predecessors . |
| 20 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 21 | Exactly , you know , and this is so weird hearing yourself talk and |
| 22 | He had never intended the group to become pop stars — and Rotten 's increasingly self-important behaviour was a worry . |
| 23 | The academically discredited distinction between traditional and modern is now common currency , while the notions of inward-oriented and outward-oriented describe those who look for guidance and sustenance to the resources of their own groups as opposed to those who look outside , usually to the West . |