Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er apparently there 's a story about Napoleon and not tonight Josephine stuff . |
| 2 | The engineers were also said to have become better dressed , improved in their conduct and manners and much less given to drink : " they are decidedly better men " . |
| 3 | Like Galileo , he was committed to the Copernican system as a cosmology and not merely as a mathematical hypothesis . |
| 4 | If one of the necessary chores of an archaeologist is to reconstruct subsistence and technology , it is one of his chief privileges to explore the values of the civilizations coming within his purview and not least the symbols which have served to define status and acknowledge outstanding achievement . |
| 5 | For instance if you translate ‘ neighbourly behaviour ’ into ‘ altruism ’ or ‘ community ’ you are immediately into all the problems discussed from Tönnies and Durkheim onwards ( i.e. how and why solidarity is built upon kinship , common place , occupation , religion and so on ) . |
| 6 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 7 | Well what this springs up is the issue , one of the issues we started with which is democracy in the tyranny of the majority is what Mill recognizes is is that a maj well he claims to be concerned that the majority will make a decision which is against the interests of everyone , but he 's equally concerned about the issue that the majority might make a decision which is against the interests just of a picked-on minority , people with unpopular views , people who hold er members of a different religion and so on . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 10 | Other influences can include , in some areas , religion and quite often age and sex : local parties are reluctant to adopt women candidates ( the folklore being that women voters dislike voting for them ) and anyone aged under 30 or over 50 years . |
| 11 | Self-image and so on . |
| 12 | Many of the problems associated with the uncontrolled access to farmland are long-standing and have been enshrined in the Country Code , the list of ‘ do 's and don'ts ’ concerning open gates , litter , dogs which worry livestock , fire risks and so on . |
| 13 | It is amazing that in this age of guitar exotica , courtesy of PRS , Valley Arts and so on , most players can not help but become romantic and misty-eyed about an old Strat — even one that was made in Japan only a month or so ago . |
| 14 | Stalin 's protégé , Andrei Zhdanov , who controlled the arts and still more closely the artists and architects of the Soviet Union , had said that architecture alone ‘ is able to reflect the grandeur of the period in an objective way . |
| 15 | Although Sontag ( 1979 ) may have been guilty of exaggeration in her claim that Benjamin 's most important influence came from surrealism , it is certain that he was enthusiastic about surrealism both as a movement in the arts and as often explicit politics . |
| 16 | BAINBRIDGE is a handsome little village on the Hawes-Leyburn road with a broad village green , complete with village stocks , where miscreants of olden days , instead of being fined or having their licences endorsed , were pelted with rotten garbage and sometimes even worse . |
| 17 | They were often structurally unsound and costly to maintain , hard to staff because of their physical isolation and far too big . |
| 18 | Normally a control group and an experimental group are constituted deliberately by matching subjects on relevant characteristics and then randomly allocating one of each matched pair to the control or the experimental group respectively . |
| 19 | In effect , country has picked up all the old paraphernalia of the pop world : slick videos , stage shows , merchandising , fanzines and so on . |
| 20 | ‘ They did a wedding dance , folk songs and so on . |
| 21 | The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility . |
| 22 | The Nobel prize for religion ( God forbid it should ever be invented ) will not go to a theologian , or like the peace prize be passed round to whoever fits the political needs of the moment ( with all due respect to Bishop Tutu and not much to Mr Begin ) . |
| 23 | Wounded , and with his aircraft riddled with cannon and machine gun fire which stripped all the fabric from one side of the fuselage and almost completely severed the rudder control , Bradbury managed to reach the airfield and force-land . |
| 24 | Can now , can we actually move on a bit because , that has been very valuable what you said , but in fairness to Mr Maxwell it also has to be said does n't it that up until he stole these assets er this process of throwing organisations , peoples monies into a spin dryer and pulling them out of different sort of sequences was something he regularly did and we 've had witnesses to say how well he did manage the funds and how they grew , whether when they should sell stock and when they should n't sell stock and so on . |
| 25 | This leads me to believe the fellow concerned knew little about foxes and even less about rabbiting . |
| 26 | Give him the card and then any how . |
| 27 | A band called Eric And The Good Good Feeling and a stint with EMI led up to the original UFI deal and now finally maybe Frankë 's time has come . |
| 28 | Beyond her , there were more ranks of bared heads , this time facing the Collector ; their eyes , too , scanned him greedily , looking for fissures and further away still , two or three faces of sick or wounded men watched from the open windows of the hospital . |
| 29 | The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The one I ca n't wait for is the European Cup on April 16–20 , ’ says the talented teenager , quipping : ‘ The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe ! ’ |