Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petra , it was pointed out , was rather nervy and scared by nature so Chris announced that a ‘ bold and confident dog would be the best mate and most likely to produce a lit-ter ’ . |
| 2 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 3 | Now bear in mind that you may be up anything up to three months in a condition where you 're completely and totally unable to move a muscle for yourself . |
| 4 | They also had a wonderful father who was never angry , and always ready to play a game . |
| 5 | Very sincere and always willing to help a human , dobies are nonetheless inept at most tasks . |
| 6 | For a deep , steep curve it is probably easier and more accurate to take a pattern of half the arch , and spread this to fit the curtain fabric width , as follows : |
| 7 | As has been shown , analysis of NCTs main 1979 survey results demonstrates that in general poorer people , less well educated people , those in lower social classes , old people and women rather than men are less well informed about credit , and more likely to use a type of credit out of habit or convenience rather than as a matter of rational choice . |
| 8 | In particular , mothers were socioeconomically disadvantaged , younger , and more likely to smoke and their infants were of lower birth weight and more likely to share a bed with another person . |
| 9 | They were more likely to find an area if a grid of squares was provided , and more likely to find a perimeter if there was no grid but distances round the edges of the figure were labelled ; the use of the terms " perimeter " and " area " , especially the latter , reduced success . |
| 10 | Alison was surprised and slightly pleased to hear a trace of feeling breaking through . |
| 11 | Under the regulations of March 1956 the new army was to be made up of ‘ citizens in uniform ’ , committed to defend democracy , preserving full civil rights and even able to join a trades union . |
| 12 | But I had Hobart in yesterday and there willing to do a maintenance contract on everything , if you want . |
| 13 | If an entirely innocent character , Terentia perhaps , embarked on an angry critique of patriarchy , it would be very difficult to remain within the tragic form , and ultimately impossible to interest a producer in the script . |
| 14 | It 's socially and financially satisfying to make a movie , that 's for sure . |
| 15 | Too late for the truth and too late to invent a lie . |
| 16 | But the decision was made only hours before the share sale closed , and too late to cause a domino effect among other right-leaning unions . |
| 17 | Mr Handford was disappointed with the recording as the sounds did not meet his expectations , but by then it was too dark and too late to make a change of location . |
| 18 | And too preoccupied to hold a conversation . |
| 19 | Later on , when he was five and too heavy to play a dart satisfactorily , he became ‘ The Living Gladstone Bag ’ . |
| 20 | It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production . |