Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the effective management of development — and perhaps basic research as well — has many of the same goals as manufacturing : faster throughput time , reduction of inventory , better upstream-downstream communication , continuous improvement , subtle balances between discipline and creativity , quick problem solving , etc . |
| 2 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 3 | Next he brought her sweetened , milky and deliciously hot tea as well as two sausage rolls , two ham and mustard sandwiches , and three chocolate-coated doughnuts . |
| 4 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 5 | In the first place , we asked for a salary rise , a reduction in land rents and more fertile land because usually the owners round there would rent us plots which were n't good for anything . |
| 6 | In a context where design debate , narrowly conceived , seems to be meeting with little success in evaluating design 's social import , the questions raised — is design the means whereby we can shape future socio-technological systems to create a richer and more emancipated life or simply the often impotent agent of techno-economic systems ? — become a means to general design understanding . |
| 7 | You may prefer central heating , and more controllable ventilation than permanently open flue . |
| 8 | In due course in recovery the primary sufferer and the family member can be reunited in a happier and more fulfilling relationship than ever before . |
| 9 | This is a neat and internally consistent explanation and fully explains why it is that the military and industry have to get together . |
| 10 | But the national curriculum quite honestly , is quite wide and also expands over primary , secondary , and also higher education as well . |
| 11 | The crux of the debate , therefore , is not whether social service expenditure encourages consumption and hence economic growth but rather at what stage and under what economic conditions it uses up so much labour , capital and other resources that it ‘ crowds out ’ the manufacturing industries . |
| 12 | Life to him was simple : food , wine , sleep , love , and as little work as decently possible . |
| 13 | It conducts us through storms , tempests , seas , mountains and precipices with as little terror to the mind and as much ease as though through beautiful gardens and delightful meadows . |
| 14 | So I have to ask has anyone , and I underline anyone , who talks about economic policies , recessions , recoveries and jobs , yet begun to face up to the way everything depends on growth as before and even more growth than before . |
| 15 | After an hour or so we were offered a free drink from the buffet , a new and well intentioned gesture that soon will be seen as an albatross like being asked your height by an undertaker . |
| 16 | With the advent of rear and then front projection and more elaborate types of matte shot ( eg travelling matte ) , the glass shot and the action might conveniently be shot in different places at different times . |
| 17 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |
| 18 | The opening was from a book called Joyce , By Her Friends , and was a piece written by Verily Anderson which conjured up an imaginary car ride with Joyce : ‘ Turn left any minute now and then sharp right and straight under a low lying archway with a very steep mews . |
| 19 | Well it came so suddenly you see there 's erm as I said playing football , and then this accident and then he he was sort of taken away from us in no time you know . |
| 20 | Some hive worlds consist of shell upon shell of plasteel braced by great pillars , as if the planet has grown a metal skin and then another skin and yet another , each successive skin being home to billions of busy human maggots , fleas , lice . |
| 21 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 22 | Most placements of agency secretarial/office staff are for a period as short as two weeks or less , albeit subject to extension , but the assignments advertised for computer staff are of three months , or more often six months and sometimes one year or even two year duration , again subject to extension . |
| 23 | ‘ He taught me how to tie a package with very little twine and very little paper and still make it look nice , ’ Walton later recalled . |