Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became lazy and somewhat withdrawn . |
| 2 | It 's stuck well you eat that and then that 's it now for the day nothing more . |
| 3 | Since the formation of the system there have been eleven exchange rate realignments , the last one implemented in January 1987 ; ( b ) inducing a reduction of , and an increasing degree of convergence among members countries ' inflation rates ; ( c ) generating , as a result of ( a ) and ( b ) , a greater degree of real exchange rate predictability ; ( d ) encouraging lower and more convergent national money supply growth rates ; ( e ) reducing the variability of national inflation , money supply growth and interest rates . |
| 4 | We should adapt that and perhaps incorporate into it some of the schemes that have been tried and could be improved . |
| 5 | But when I needed a breath of air , or wished to explore Reine , and was out of the attic for an hour or so , leaving him alone there , he became depressed and even a little disagreeable . |
| 6 | Managing projects across countries , and linking different databases on different equipment , are challenging and interesting prospects for information managers , and will oblige us to acquire scarce and commercially valuable expertise , available later for consultancy . |
| 7 | so , so you are , you are encouraging that and presumably if anybody sets anything up they 're going to be able to keep it . |
| 8 | Here there was a delay , for Fiver — surrounded on all sides by the quiet summer evening — became helpless and almost paralysed with fear . |
| 9 | These contain two types of ‘ munition ’ , which eject as the aircraft flies low and fast over the runway . |
| 10 | She inevitably became pregnant and conveniently , Mrs Tawell died . |
| 11 | Avoidance involves allowing cell sap to concentrate , so reducing its freezing point ; in this way frost-hardened plants may remain ice-free and physiologically active for many days at temperatures well below 0°C . |
| 12 | Methods for controlling complexity have been developed 1,2,6,7 and successfully used . |
| 13 | From the 1880s the richer members of the Jewish community made extensive and largely successful efforts to provide for the influx of destitute refugees from the Russian pogroms . |
| 14 | It 's like my mum , she paid to get them developed right and about two weeks later she goes in that 's how much it costs for a week . |
| 15 | The algorithm has been implemented in two versions ( using least and most distant neighbours ) . |
| 16 | However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise . |
| 17 | Moreover , we know that people who are born with severe motor impairments develop normal and sometimes supra-normal intelligence . |
| 18 | The spring water temperatures remain low and fairly constant throughout the year , seldom falling to freezing point in winter or rising above 8–11° in summer . |
| 19 | We have stopped that and now they are making their own , most of them are making their own fashionable garments out of the loose material we sell and er , some ask the friends to make for them . |
| 20 | I would suggest to you that given that and also the wording in the justification under the old Policy E three , that in fact you could hardly get a tissue paper between this policy that is now before you and the previous policy . |
| 21 | They became friendly and eventually fell in love . |
| 22 | I found no difficulty at all in believing both these things , having been forced to extend my capacity for credibility to accommodate stranger and more terrible inconsistencies . |
| 23 | While it is perfectly valid for children to step back from what they have been doing in drama and write about it , the exciting alternative of writing ( or drawing , or carrying out scientific experiments ) within the context of the drama , as the characters they are playing , produces lively and highly motivated work . |
| 24 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you suggesting that Barney made up his mind to kill Angy and cold-bloodedly chose a method that would throw suspicion on someone else ? |
| 26 | As the right leg is lifted on the turn , it should remain high and close to the body . |
| 27 | We experimented with a new Editor who wrote and commissioned interesting and often controversial articles , but this approach was competitive with the British Sunday press and I discovered that " controversial " can be distasteful . |
| 28 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 29 | Billy Bingham 's search for new talent , particularly consistent goalscorers , is proving elusive and realistically they are unlikely to beat Peter Schmeichel too many times tonight . |
| 30 | Remember , Miss Carter wanted me to go pupil-teaching and then take a teacher 's course , well that 's one thing I could do ; it 's not too late , I 'm only twenty-two . |