Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian example is evidence not only of the effective and widespread use in a western democracy -of the industrial co-operative model but also of the rigorously businesslike and wholly unromantic attitude of LEGA towards it . |
| 2 | Jay smiled from her shadow , admitting a lazy , faint and wholly delicious curl of desire . |
| 3 | That happy and wholly characteristic confusion of fact and supposition makes his criticism as readable , at times , as an eccentric novel by a country gentleman more at ease at a hunt-ball than in a classroom , at a levée than in a seminar . |
| 4 | As Hilary steps down as Chairman after what has proved to be a difficult and latterly sad term of office , Betty welcomed June Bascombe , who after two years as Vice-Chairman , a vantage point from which she has glimpsed what might be involved , has bravely accepted nomination as chairman and has been elected . |
| 5 | They offer a convenient , secure and widely accepted form of payment at more than 7 million outlets in the UK and overseas , displaying the Access , MasterCard and Eurocard symbols . |
| 6 | Several films of the 1930s were to deal with the very real and widely condemned phenomenon of lynching and in 1935 MGM had finally allowed their imported genius Fritz Lang to make this story after several years of waiting . |
| 7 | When considering why the DLV underwent this very swift and conspicuously awkward change of heart , we are once again thrown back on the resources of the imagination . |
| 8 | Cleaning is faster , reducing down time and thereby increasing utilisation of machinery . |
| 9 | In terms of Marxist theory , a thesis ( feudalism ) had been fundamentally questioned by its antithesis ( capitalism ) , and eventually this mode of production would replace it with its own social and political system . |
| 10 | First people have to start hiding from themselves , because that is where the hardest and most persistent voice of criticism is coming from . |
| 11 | No ; Charlie was the cruellest and most lethal type of seducer . |
| 12 | APS can decide the most appropriate and most efficient method of payment , and provide immediate electronic advice of funds received for crediting to an account . |
| 13 | The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity . |
| 14 | They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences . |
| 15 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 16 | That is my first and most powerful memory of separation from my mother , and even though it lasted only a year , those feelings of rejection and insecurity have coloured my life . |
| 17 | This is in practice the most important and most powerful form of control , |
| 18 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 19 | Boswell finding Johnson ‘ in the kindest and most agreeable frame of mind ’ asked him ‘ explicitly whether it would be improper to publish his letters after his death . |
| 20 | UNICEF has the widest and most varied range of stationery lots of all purpose cards in all sorts of styles , plus handsome stationery sets with designs based on blankets woven by the Navajo Indians . |
| 21 | Mirrors , being the most readily available and most literal source of self-perception — a faculty which is always weak in anorexics — also play an important role in the symbology or symbolism of the disease . |
| 22 | Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ? |
| 23 | However , this will be done with a very broad sweep to permit the focus in later chapters to concentrate on what is the essential and most interesting feature of routine policing in Northern Ireland : namely , how societal divisions affect and constrain it . |
| 24 | Finally Brooks of Clapham included a varied and most interesting collection of aviation memorabilia in their sale on September 15 . |
| 25 | Touch is the earliest and most primitive form of communication and is an important form of non-verbal communication throughout life ; it can convey a myriad of positive and negative messages between people . |
| 26 | The most venerable and most formal mode of communication is the diplomatic channel . |
| 27 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 28 | L/Ap — shell length divided by aperture length ( Fig. 22 ) is the simplest , most convenient and most objective measure of shell shape in dog-whelks . |
| 29 | All that would be needed to perfect the system would be to eliminate the final and most tiresome source of error — the electors . |
| 30 | ‘ … the fundamental and most basic unit of resistance , and creative extension of control , on the shop floor . |