Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 2 | The , the longer and more and less precise answer would be presumably , human psychology has evolved in such a way , as to allow us to make those kind of judgments that would normally be reliable . |
| 3 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 4 | The main and more or less stable plate that dominates the area is known , hardly surprisingly , as the Pacific Plate ; surrounding it are a number of equally large , or smaller plates such as the Australian , the Nazca , the North American and the Cocos Plate . |
| 5 | The first is a simple , unscaled and more or less subjective feeling of whether it is expensive or cheap . |
| 6 | Here not only do the sediments preserve a continuous and more or less uniform record over the disputed boundary , but the faunas ( most notably the monograptids ) went on happily evolving , oblivious of the great things that were going on elsewhere . |
| 7 | When people wished to resist this ranking they went to some lengths to do so in a symbolic and more or less public way . |
| 8 | Henceforth , of course , there would be a need to promote Vietnam to the position of an established , legitimate and more or less popular state deserving of US assistance . |
| 9 | I shall suggest however that the philosophical framework which allowed the fathers to have a Christology which could be in some way inclusive of women has disappeared ; and moreover that even patristic Christology does not solve the problem . |
| 10 | discounting : it is argued that we attribute our first impressions to the person ( e.g. to a person 's traits or abilities ) , and later or more recent information to the situation ( e.g. the task , environment , influence of other people ) . |
| 11 | And now that specifically Italian form , the madrigal , was born . |
| 12 | Like a small Snipe with a much shorter bill , two narrow instead of one broad pale streaks on crown , and slower and less erratic flight , dropping down much sooner into cover . |
| 13 | No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game . |
| 14 | If we assign positions to particular instances of discourse we find firstly that there are many intermediate cases , and secondly that absolutely nonreciprocal discourse is unlikely . |