Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best and most subtle way to prevent such attacks is to ensure that the British people know that they have a Government who are taking the steps necessary to keep firm control of immigration and particularly to prevent people from abusing our immigration rules by entering this country under the bogus concept of being political refugees ? |
| 2 | Wallace argued against those naturalists who postulated temporary ‘ land-bridges ’ across even the deepest and most extensive oceans to explain these cases . |
| 3 | It was a very good environment , working on the best and most creative advertising work that was being done in the mid ‘ 70's . |
| 4 | I have bo proof , but I believe that the heartening increase in our total reflects , at least in part , a growing awareness in this centre of mounted successful commerce that the modest , hectic and rather untidy operation mounted each May in the portico of our Church , by ordinary members , represents a dimension which even those Edmund Burke described as ‘ sophisters , economists and calculators ’ had to take into account . |
| 5 | The more international brasserie dishes on the elegant and rather over-long menu reflect this straightforward approach : nothing flashy or too sauced and a strong injection of Britishness . |
| 6 | Huge size and predominantly white plumage make this an unmistakable owl ; female appreciably larger than male , and with much more numerous blackish or brownish bars on upperparts . |
| 7 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 8 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 9 | Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment . |
| 10 | New York makes for a glaring contrast , its sky-scraping towers and constantly changing moods stamping this whirlpool of a metropolis with an excitement and energy the world has rarely seen ; Washington DC acts as a statement of political dominance , retaining a cool air of refined detachment in its stately buildings and gracious avenues . |
| 11 | The balance of Lady Antonia 's very long and extremely well-researched book reflects this exactly ; she devotes 75 pages to the period of Mary 's personal rule from 1561–5 , compared to 137 for the years 1565–8 and 81 for 1586–7 . |
| 12 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 13 | The Royal Agricultural Society of England later made great , continuous , and finally successful efforts to remedy this undoubted narrowness in the syllabus . |
| 14 | ‘ The myelin sheathing , ’ they write , ‘ is too underdeveloped in the prenatal , natal and early postnatal brain to store such memories . ’ |
| 15 | However , although the availability of new and more contemporary data generates much activity , interest , and publishable analyses , it might not cast much more light on the resource allocation problem for the reasons outlined above . |
| 16 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
| 17 | Brighter and more extensive clouds send more of the sun 's heat away from the earth 's surface , adding to the albedo effect . |
| 18 | Why , compared with the first Brandt report , has this second , updated and more realistic document received such scant public notice ? |
| 19 | Is it not a fact that more and more generous benefits covering many different needs are available to people in London and elsewhere ? |
| 20 | What happened between early and later Greek society to generate these developments must have been something other than the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy alone since literacy was present in both periods . |
| 21 | When elections were held in Maine to elect the state 's senators in 1978 , Hayes E Gahagan stood for office on a strong right-wing , no nonsense ticket : abortion , women 's rights and similarly liberal measures found little sympathy in his campaign . |
| 22 | Increasing the age at breeding leads to selection for reduced senescence , and both evolutionary theories specify that survival and fertility later in the lifespan will in consequence increase over the generations to come . |
| 23 | The fact that men are likely to die earlier , and far more women experience many years of widowed life , is well known . |
| 24 | Liverpool 's future is in Souness 's hands now , so it was an appropriate occasion for his re-fashioned and now emerging team to mark another stage of their evolution against the club where Dalglish is building a new dynasty . |
| 25 | NOTTINGHAM CASTLE , now a museum and art gallery , was once home to the evil Sheriff and even Little John spent some time in service here . |
| 26 | Tubs , urns , hanging baskets and even old butler sinks all make ideal containers for flowers and foliage . |
| 27 | The pattern seems to be , and fast changing circumstances dictate this more than anything , not to dwell on problems . |
| 28 | And then other firms did that and er they was the same people nearly , got their own lines and it was worse that was , so they got onto the same lines and er the competition became then financial |
| 29 | Mm you split it down the middle again so that will go off that way and then that branch go that way see ? |
| 30 | Each customer decides how much to maintain in the current account and then Balanced Banking sweeps any surplus into a high interest savings account . |