Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they would become noisy if ignored or neglected and downright troublesome if the family itself became lazy or rude . |
| 2 | Japan was both militarily and economically vulnerable and the lack of outside support for her resistance to great power domination reinforced a sense of national isolation which originated in national myth , grew in the seclusion period and was strengthened by an awareness of the cultural divide between Japan and the West . |
| 3 | RIGHT-WING parties were yesterday celebrating what could turn out to be their biggest victory in a French election since 1815 — and secretly worrying that the size of their crushing win could soon pose problems of its own . |
| 4 | Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans . |
| 5 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 6 | It has actually raised and submerged its sulphurous head five times since its first appearance in 1925 , and when Lorne and I reached it in September of 1983 it was nearly 300 feet high and so active that the government had denied us landing permits . |
| 7 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 8 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 9 | Second , the notion of a contract carries the implication that medical care is a commodity to be bargained for in the market-place , and only available if the price is right , a notion specifically rejected in England . |
| 10 | Ian Wyllie found that , of 90 reed warbler nests that had cuckoo eggs in them , 86 ( 95 per cent ) were parasitised during egg-laying and only four after the clutch was complete . |
| 11 | Women referred by GPs were more neurotic and less psychotic than the comparison groups , and had more social problems . |
| 12 | As their experience built up , the Treasury became less and less convinced that the role that had been envisaged for the nationalised industries in overall demand management was a desirable one . |
| 13 | In some ways it is an improvement over yet older versions , sions , but I hope you realise that the information it encapsulates is much vaguer and less certain than the description I gave of what single cells can do . |
| 14 | It was small and less noisy than the farm tractor which he had sometimes watched from the edge of the primrose wood at home . |
| 15 | Tau Ceti is rather smaller , dimmer and less luminous than the Sun . |
| 16 | The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic . |
| 17 | Early on in the running of the clinic it had been found that treatment with house dust 200 alone was less effective and less long-lasting if the avoidance programme was not also undertaken , but it was not possible , from the nature of the study , to assess what proportion of the benefit was attributable to each measure . |
| 18 | Some dragons banter words with you , more devious and less answerable than the Sphynx herself ; they spin word games which you must not play , and then in the end they come out and fight like men , until you can plunge your spear into the soft white spot where their plated armour is thin . |
| 19 | It makes it less audacious and less entertaining than the Eye , of course , except for the literary and dramatic reviews . |
| 20 | Orange dwarfs are brighter than red dwarfs , but they are still fainter and less massive than the Sun . |
| 21 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 22 | ‘ It is thoroughly and unutterably embarrassing that a stalker , a ghillie or a farmworker should be paying the same tax as me . |
| 23 | ‘ This killing is totally unnecessary and unacceptably cruel and the time has come to end the killing . ’ |
| 24 | They cracked open a bottle of wine , and by the end of the night she was feeling very pleasantly mellow and totally convinced that the world was a supremely beautiful place . |
| 25 | Like their big relatives the Orcs , Goblins vary in size although they are typically smaller than Orcs and usually smaller than a man . |
| 26 | It can bring life to a whole planet and creak a world but his fellow soldier 's body has been carefully constructed and is in one piece , and still warm but the sun can not give it life as his body is now stiff . |
| 27 | It 's bigger , better and more varied than the original . |
| 28 | The Cycladic islands had produced a good late Geometric , and their orientalising is finer and more varied than the East Greek but still a minor flowering . |
| 29 | They concluded Wolvertons ' method was quicker and more efficient than the Ordnance Factories ' . |
| 30 | We know that the eukaryotic cell is much larger and more efficient than the procaryote , carrying more genetic material . |