Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of this was that the forgery allegation was abandoned and wholly new lines of defence were added by amendment to Mr. Steed 's counterclaim for rectification . |
| 2 | One of the most fundamental of those was the importance of clearly-stated and widely publicized rules of conduct for both staff and prisoners ( Howard 1792 : 148 , 152 , 154 , 166–9 ) . |
| 3 | Slowly , common turns of speech , and thereby common turns of thought , are adopted , and the member drifts into conservatism without having made a conscious political choice . |
| 4 | Mm , that 's right , I mean the fact that agriculture tends to be perfectly com right , why there tends to be a lot of independent small producers is because there are no economies of scale , you know , apart from beyond , you know , a certain size of farm , you know , stud studies in the U K show that once you get , get beyond about two thousand hectares there are , there are significant dis-economies of scale , and although there are economies of scale up to that point , and that 's only in the case of very specialist types of production , by and large once you 've got a farm in excess of five hundred hectares , erm , you start to run into dis-economy , and mostly managerial dis-economies of scale . |
| 5 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 6 | Outside the castle gates visitors will find one of the finest and most complete circuits of town walls anywhere in Europe — over three quarters of a mile in length with 22 towers and three original gateways . |
| 7 | Most said they did not find the actual tasks they performed for the dementia sufferer difficult , but two-thirds found one or more of the symptoms of dementia difficult to cope with , and most described feelings of strain . |
| 8 | The result is one of the largest , most detailed , and most accessible studies of land ownership anywhere in the USA . |
| 9 | Gabriel , although normally one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth , had suddenly become aggressive . |
| 10 | We are looking at the training arrangements and are anxious to ensure that our future forces receive the best and most relevant forms of training in the most efficient and cost-effective way . |
| 11 | Reanalysis of childhood mortality data first published in 1988 raises new concerns about the health and circumstances of one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society : lone mothers with dependent children who are largely reliant on social security benefits . |
| 12 | This is especially the case when the unoccupied group is identified as largely consisting of single parent families dependent on state benefits , one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society . |
| 13 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 14 | Thus Foxton retained its importance as a place of special interest to canal people , and reinforced its reputation by becoming the site for one of the oddest , most technologically ingenious and most spectacular pieces of engineering in the whole canal system . |
| 15 | One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today |
| 16 | The clearest and most sophisticated expositions of secularisation that I know can be found in Martin ( 1978 ) and Dobbelaere ( 1981 ) . |
| 17 | That 's the way many people describe their sciatica — one of the commonest and most debilitating forms of neuralgia . |
| 18 | Reduced to clear in the bargain basement , with absolutely no rush to buy , are the world 's two oldest investments and most trusted stores of wealth : silver and gold . |
| 19 | His perennial concern was to reconcile the general principle of democracy with the idea of government and social leadership being safely in the hands of an elite of the best and most enlightened members of society . |
| 20 | Maybe next year , we 'll wonder why we ever liked it , but today it 's one of the queerest and most exciting things in pop . |
| 21 | The appeal of religions is not based on evidence , for there is very little , nor on reason , for the reasons offered for faith are unconvincing , but on illusions — ‘ fulfilments of the oldest , strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind ’ . |
| 22 | Both are essentially private activities decided upon by persons within the household or in small groups and involve the deepest and most fundamental concerns in life . |
| 23 | People want imitation Bernard Dunstans and little feathery bits of painting which look like a painterly painting and are n't too upsetting or dramatic . |
| 24 | New French findings hint that the tetrapods probably hopped like kangaroos , as their tracks show left and right hind footprints in parallel , rather than alternating , some reaching up to two-metre intervals . |
| 25 | In recent years increases in grant have not been sufficient to compensate for inflationary costs , particularly books and journals , and so additional sources of income have had to be found , in the form of sponsorships , grants , bequests , and donations . |
| 26 | It is as if the emotional umbilicus is never cut , and so magical transfers of feeling remain possible . |
| 27 | Fewer people than in large organisations , and so lesser problems of coordination . |
| 28 | The search space was organised around a global uniform data-base , the blackboard , and so different configurations of knowledge bases could easily be tested . |
| 29 | Regrettably it seems that with age , and perhaps successive generations in captivity , the red diminishes , but it is still a very striking fish . |
| 30 | There is considerable variation in the extent to which cyanogenic properties are expressed and there is some seasonal and perhaps other causes of variation in expression . |