Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is obviously important that the targets are relevant ( e.g. based upon international comparisons ) , that reasonable detail on the outcomes is available , and most importantly that clearly defined action is taken to improve poor performance . |
| 2 | But sometimes you can look at the Third World , animal slaughter , pollution and so on and just feel the depressing resignation that ‘ young ’ people are supposed to kick against the establishment . |
| 3 | Erm I 'll just sort of er talk briefly about sort of main trends and , and sort of output and orders and so on and then go through in terms of some of the implications that results as regards to employment and domestic crisis . |
| 4 | I mean a lot of times you know I think just phone up and say , Is mister so and so there and then guard themselves T N T delivery . |
| 5 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 6 | In Aquitaine and in India alike the Englishman was , and is , a foreigner , with a home elsewhere : in our other colonies men , with their families , settle and only now and then return ’ . |
| 7 | It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale . |
| 8 | Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place , but reluctantly and more gradually than now seems desirable . |
| 9 | He could be quite casual in his attitude to his wife 's anxiety and more often than not failed to let her know when he was delayed . |
| 10 | That will be as much as fun as er Sunday school I expect and probably just as well attended . |
| 11 | Stephen tied it up but the string broke and he had to drive the car into Hilderbridge very slowly and carefully so as not to overheat the engine . |
| 12 | This exercise must be done slowly and carefully so as not to let the barbell drop from your fingertips . |
| 13 | You could see they were English , though how this was , since they were mostly gleaming brown and both elegantly and scantily dressed , it would be hard to say . |
| 14 | Deepwater creatures are few and far between and so have difficulty finding mates . |
| 15 | Moving slowly and cautiously so as not to rip any of the rubber components of their diving suits , they passed in file into a compartment not more than four feet in height but almost twenty feet in length , extending from the nose cone , under the flight deck and then several feet beyond . |
| 16 | Molly and Judith frequently went visiting other girls in the community after dinner and as often as not did not come home for tea ; and , since Malka had married and left Cork , Judith spent even more Sundays out of the house . |
| 17 | The earlier deluge had eventually given way to more normal rain , and now finally that too had passed . |
| 18 | They attack the status quo by pointing out that the reasons given for denying rights to children are bad reasons , and then explicitly or implicitly deny them duties for no reason at all . |
| 19 | His interests are in the practical worlds of economics , human behaviour and technology , and he is at his most impressive in unravelling them , and least so when dutifully ticking off a list of earlier urban theorists . |
| 20 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 21 | Equally , the pupil 's value to the organisation can also be implied in this hidden way and either overtly or covertly alter the teachers ' actions . |
| 22 | The usual way in which this duty is breached is for the employee to mention to customers that he is leaving and either directly or indirectly suggest to them that he is available to meet their needs once he has left . |
| 23 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |