Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " 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 | On 11 May 1559 Knox preached his great and wholly inflammatory sermon in St John 's Kirk in Perth , producing mob riot not only in the church itself but also in the Black and Grey Friars and the Carthusian monastery , all of which were sacked . |
| 5 | The famous and vastly influential Token for Children ( 1753 ) by John Janeway was even more explicit : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The extensive and widely approved report from Lord Justice Woolf said nothing about introducing an offence of prison mutiny . |
| 10 | You will have read what I think to be a very reasoned and properly enthusiastic tribute to Alan by Peter his predecessor in the Chair , in this number of N C V O News , which incidentally I think is er , er , er , a considerable step forward from the various er , experiments , and the like that we have er , conducted over the years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now it would command television crews , gangs of itinerant Press men and jolly serious ball by ball radio commentary . |
| 13 | He eventually managed to assemble about 170 of his foot , all that had survived , and some 450 horsemen , and led them southwards towards Coldstream , by what was long remembered as Johnny Cope 's road' , and thence next day to Berwick . |
| 14 | The occasion of Macleod 's fury was the process by which Lord Home had come to be chosen as Leader of the party and thereby Prime Minister in succession to Harold Macmillan . |
| 15 | Cleaning is faster , reducing down time and thereby increasing utilisation of machinery . |
| 16 | This resulted in high profits and thereby increased investment in industry . |
| 17 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 18 | Despite their consistent and eventually justified opposition to MacDonald , ILP disaffiliation from the Labour Party was regarded as an extreme measure to be adopted only if the Labour National Executive refused to make any concessions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A season which started with punctures , a turbo failure and eventually third place in Galway in February improved marginally with an accident and second position on the Circuit of Ireland at Easter . |
| 21 | Giant hogweed ( Heracleum mantegazzianum ) starts to grow , aiming for an enormous and intensely irritating presence by midsummer . |
| 22 | First people have to start hiding from themselves , because that is where the hardest and most persistent voice of criticism is coming from . |
| 23 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 24 | With sections touching on the Spanish Luftwaffe and Training for War , this book will be snapped up by all those interested in the largest and most colourful fleet of warbirds in the world . |
| 25 | Certainly the happiest and most confident period in Firdaus ' life is when she can pick and choose her customers and determine for herself the relationship she will have with them . |
| 26 | No ; Charlie was the cruellest and most lethal type of seducer . |
| 27 | It was built for a rich banker in the early sixteenth-century but is more renowned as the home of the Societa del Giardino , the oldest and most prestigious club in Milan which has used the palazzo since 1818 . |
| 28 | 'But I want you to know tonight , ’ said Martin Luther King in his final and most famous speech in Memphis in 1968 , ‘ that we , as a people will get to the promised land . ’ |
| 29 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 30 | Sergio Moroni , a Socialist deputy for Milan and a close associate of Craxi , committed suicide on Sept. 2 , the third and most prominent person under investigation in the Milan scandal to do so . |