Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ This killing is totally unnecessary and unacceptably cruel and the time has come to end the killing . ’ |
| 3 | Wagner 's appeal is becoming stronger and more general and the association of his name with Schopenhauer 's indicates a new degree of commendation . |
| 4 | After the Second World War , the showing of dogs became more and more popular and the acquisition of a new breed to exploit , or make one 's name with , was the order of the day . |
| 5 | The cost of enteric outbreaks is often underestimated , and both this and the need to extend the scope of monitoring to include patients in community-based smaller homes or nursing homes with contracted beds was discussed by Murdoch ( 1990 ) . |
| 6 | That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty . |
| 7 | Derelict cars parked in back alleys with their windscreens bashed in — you can climb in through the front and then over to the back , it 's dry and quite clean and the fuzz never think to look . |