Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally the commonest medium-sized brown owl ; predominantly nocturnal and most often detected in daytime hunched up in its tree roost , being mobbed by smaller birds , when can be distinguished from Barn Owl by dark brown face and underparts and from Long-eared and Short-eared Owls ( p. 179 ) by black eyes and lack of ear-tufts . |
| 2 | This was important , because it showed that it was not a protein , and so clearly differed from lysozyme . |
| 3 | No indemnity will be given for loss of cash , bank currency and so on listed in Clause 11(c) — a substantial limitation of liability . |
| 4 | Of course , in addition to the bony structures in the limb — which are first laid down as cartilage and only later replaced by bone — there are muscles and tendons whose pattern is more complex . |
| 5 | The impetus of the scientific imperative was followed by technical mistakes , followed by a disastrous failure , followed by official reassurances — and only eventually concluded by official backtracking in the face of outside scepticism . |
| 6 | Similarly , although the works clubs which are in charge of workplace negotiations in Sweden are sub-organisations of the branches of the national unions and less loosely linked to union organisation than the equivalent shop steward system in Britain ( at least before the expansion of single-employer bargaining ) , nevertheless they act independently of the branch and national union headquarters . |
| 7 | This goes against the general trend of the rest of the survey ( which suggests that these groups are less well informed and less accurately informed about credit ) . |
| 8 | Although I now believe he over-estimated the importance of the part played by observation , his constant emphasis upon the personal , the sensuous and the experiential ( a world illuminated by the child 's sensitivity and never dictated by the teacher ) gave rise to work of much greater intensity , and much more varied in imagery , than the ultimately stereotyped products of Basic Design . |
| 9 | Also , it had become much more formal and much more structured in organization . |
| 10 | George Moore 's depiction of Jesus as having survived the Crucifixion followed on from a contention maintained not only by some of the oldest heresies , but also by the Koran , and thus widely accepted throughout Islam and the Islamic world . |
| 11 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 12 | Indeed , it might be ventured that whenever there is the possibility we prefer to use this basis of organisation , probably because it is intrinsically more accessible and more firmly established as part of our mental " set " . |
| 13 | As women mature , their outward appearance becomes more and more strongly related to character . |
| 14 | Returning to our work Sid and I became more and more closely connected with Radio Station 1OAB and during the Annual General Meeting of the association that year I was appointed Programme Director . |
| 15 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 16 | These tugs built by John Lewis & Sons Ltd. in Aberdeen and more commonly known as water tractors were the first of their kind in Scotland . |
| 17 | The guild halls are equally fine and probably more varied in design . |
| 18 | It was about four feet wide and as carefully coated with sand and pebbles as the step . |
| 19 | Most of the rivers of eastern and southern England possess buried channels , graded to a much lower base level and now completely filled with alluvium . |
| 20 | Often virtually the only direct evidence available to them is a corpus of written utterances , of somewhat fortuitous make-up , and now probably fixed for eternity . |
| 21 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 22 | This book was originally written in English and then later translated into Arabic ( with considerable additions ) by the author himself . |
| 23 | It had been hand-delivered to Kensington Palace and then carefully placed on top of all Diana 's other mail . |
| 24 | All the tissue samples had been fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for 24 hours at room temperature and then routinely processed to paraffin wax . |
| 25 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 26 | We were on about Saturdays , having Saturdays to oursen finally you know , instead of having to go here there and everywhere not bothered about afternoon , I meant night times and that |
| 27 | His plan was certainly crazy and almost definitely doomed to failure but it was his only option . |
| 28 | Acceptability therefore is important and almost entirely expressed in user comments gained from questioning . |
| 29 | The US scientist Ronald Bracewell seems to have been the first to have suggested that sending or listening for radio signals is a haphazard business and almost certainly doomed to failure , because the task of covering the millions of ‘ likely ’ stars is well-nigh impossible . |
| 30 | Unlike basic chords and barre chords — usually cumbersome , and full of note duplication — the jazz chord can be small and yet densely packed with information . |