Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 2 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 3 | [ 'Kinship defenders ' ] also feel that insufficient work is carried out by social workers on the rehabilitation of separated families , while at least some of the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school seem more aware of situations where rehabilitation is attempted inappropriately , and perhaps foisted on an unwilling parent , and feel that social workers should be discouraged from holding out unrealistic hopes of restoring the child . |
| 4 | If you are female , more than two stones overweight , and just embarking on a weight-loss programme — as opposed to switching from another slimming diet on which you have already lost some of your surplus weight . |
| 5 | The latter are more specialised , and usually based on a single large manufacturer . |
| 6 | But try and always end on a positive note . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , much of this vast publicly available information resource is bibliographically ill-organised , is of very variable quality , and is frequently difficult to access or acquire The problems of accessing and acquiring such information have been greatly aggravated by the need for enterprises more and more to compete on a global basis ( compare , for example , the ‘ 1992 ’ initiative ; suddenly , we have to know all about Greece ! ) . |
| 8 | She left early for her morning swim at Buckingham Palace and later went on a 35-minute errand . |
| 9 | An elderly person in weakening health may be able to exert more power in the family and even to prevail on a disengaged family member to play a more active part in discussion and in regular visiting ( Bogo , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Levels for patients tested and then re-examined on a subsequent occasion remained the same . |
| 11 | He and Joseph Hucks were to spend ‘ three or four days ’ in Oxford , and then to embark on a lengthy exploration of North Wales , the destination at that period of many travellers searching for the picturesque beauty praised by writers such as William Gilpin . |
| 12 | Medium-term loans are to a large extent funded by short-term deposits which have to be repaid and then re-borrowed on a continuous basis . |
| 13 | He welcomed moves towards ending the traditional pre-Budget Treasury ‘ purdah ’ , which he said had been ‘ a guarantee that tax reforms will be ill-considered , ill-prepared , and then dumped on an unsuspecting world in ways that have to be heavily revised at great cost afterwards ’ . |
| 14 | In light winds this can still be done by lowering yourself to sit on the board and then pulling on a straight front arm to pull yourself up . |
| 15 | Try it with lemon juice and then drop on a little olive oil — about ½ tablespoon per slice . |
| 16 | He suggests that assignment of specific sense properties in the definitions and then matching on a property-by-property basis may offer the greater degree of constraint necessary . |
| 17 | The output of the monochromator was detected by a photomultiplier , amplified and then plotted on a wavelength-synchronized x-y recorder . |
| 18 | Jessamy walked through the wilder part of the garden and then sat on a fallen tree-trunk , rapidly sketching the shadow-filled path that led round to the pond , the twisted shapes of the tree boughs , and the dark clumps of rushes . |
| 19 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 20 | The way twisted between these ramparts , each one higher than the last , and then emerged on an open space several acres in extent . |
| 21 | In this way Brown ( 1979 ) devised five formative phases in the evolution of Britain which are necessarily unequal in length and almost plotted on a logarithmic time scale . |
| 22 | Ashmount Hotel Detached and beautifully situated on a quiet road off the promenade . |