Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some of these locomotives took part in the railway ‘ race ’ from London to Aberdeen in 1895 , when there was keen competition between the west and east coast routes for Anglo-Scottish passenger traffic , and averaged well over 60 m.p.h. from Carlisle to Aberdeen on severe gradients .
2 Extending his psychic sense of presence , he felt how the battle inside Vasilariov was congealing , slowing and centring desperately about fifteen kilometres north of the hotel .
3 And as they learn more and more words and communicate ever more complex ideas , they are encouraged by their own success and other people 's approval .
4 The extra expense of making these sections is offset by their versatility : an uncovered DPT can be used for several different analytical purposes , and offers much more petrographic information .
5 He is putting more structure into his clothes and using rather more natural fibres than man-made miracle fabrics .
6 And made about as much noise .
7 One of the pellet samples included spines and the skull of a hedgehog , showing that this predator can manage to kill and eat even well protected prey animals .
8 So far we have been concerned with non-polar solutions of amorphous polymers , whose solubility is increased with rising temperature , because the additional thermal motion helps to decrease attractive forces between like molecules , and encourages energetically less favourable contacts .
9 However , hybridisation based fingerprinting requires a high reliability of data acquisition ( e.g. during image analysis ) and pose considerably more difficult problems for map ordering algorithms .
10 The interior is simple and has now hardly any painting or mosaic except on the floor .
11 Though this model has the same excellent Vibram sole as the S-SB3 L GTX , this does not confer the same walking characteristics as the boot is much more flexible and has much less lateral foot support .
12 They can go into the furtherance of a chosen goal , and here something of the difference between the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ and the male hunter can be glimpsed , for whereas a man may wrestle openly with every difficulty on the way , women can use more precision and grace , choosing moments with care , sensing the atmosphere , and employing only as much force as is necessary .
13 The honourable gentleman knows that the new modern apprenticeship scheme that the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on the thirtieth of November , is of course designed to encourage more young people to train up to N V Q level three and to encourage even more young people to train to even higher levels .
14 He could come out and jump well over seven metres on no training at all .
15 But as you say it may well be that erm we can look at it and say well really that factor compensates for that one ,
16 That was until Ronnie McFall came to Shamrock Park and in a short space of time we have won the League two years on the trot , runner-up last season and challenging strongly again this season .
17 The main increase in nationally mixed marriages was in fact among the western or Slavic nationalities of the USSR , and to some extent also between Slavs and Balts ; intermarriage between the other major nationalities of the USSR , and in particular between Slavs and Muslims , was much less common and provided much less convincing evidence of the formation of a single ‘ Soviet nation ’ .
18 Fats are a major source of energy in the diet , and provide twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates for the same amount in weight .
19 Paul thinks Babur and Mark make a cute couple on the sofa , their diaries open on their laps , Mark over six feet and Babur just over five feet .
20 Others , including NUPE , GMBATU and the TGWU , have moved towards more widespread membership education ( including an ambitious distance learning programme in the case of the TGWU ) , involving shop stewards as lay tutors , and developing more politically aware forms of education that are related to active campaigns around particular issues .
21 Such virtual reality systems are already in existence today and foreshadow far more powerful developments likely within a few years .
22 The Aquitanian chronicler Adémar of Chabannes says that Cnut sent Duke William the Great of Aquitaine yearly embassies with costly gifts , and received even more costly ones in return .
23 Inaccessible Gully received a handful of ascents , Dove Crag Gully on Grasmoor was ascended , the icefall forming the Right Hand Finish to Great Gully was probably the most fully formed and was hammered ; C Gully was much harder and received perhaps only three ascents .
24 Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’
25 Jack , Willy , Rex and I took ourselves off to the Lamb Inn for lunch and put away as much ale and steak and kidney pie as four young men could desire .
26 The report criticized both Ridley , for failing to hand the matter over to the courts , and Lord Young for failing to refer the takeover to the MMC , and put forward over 30 recommendations for the strengthening of financial regulations .
27 ‘ Do n't let your heart rule your head , Miss Morgan , ’ he said , ‘ Craig is a fine chap , a loyal friend but he has neglected the business and paid rather too much attention to the worldly pleasures instead , so be warned . ’
28 Ancistrus are wide spread in South American rivers and accept most readily available food with the emphasis on some vegetable intake .
29 Without proper information , women simply become suspicious — quite rightly — that they are being manipulated and interpret even perfectly unrelated symptoms as being due to their contraception .
30 He believed that ‘ a club should be like a big family , with all members of it sticking and pulling together under one head ’ .
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