Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangers were rarely seen on that private and closely guarded property . |
| 2 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 3 | For me , it is enough to have seen the extraordinary gold web of your hair , and to have touched that whitest and most delicate cheek with my lips . ’ |
| 4 | to get in , three fifty each and then we paid another six pound , ten P and for that we had popcorn , Minstrels , one large Coke , a lot bigger than that and two small ones , and of course everything 's got like all this on |
| 5 | The pound is up at one dollar , fifty eight and up at two marks , forty eight . |
| 6 | Forty seven , forty eight , forty nine , fifty , fifty one , fifty two , fifty three , fifty four , fifty five , fifty six , fifty seven , fifty eight and when did you get married again ? |
| 7 | Perhaps all that it is safe to say in this context is that very commonly around the world one finds an unfossiliferous quartzite conformably below fossiliferous Lower Cambrian and unconformably above a great variety of Precambrian rocks . |
| 8 | Those mariners set about whaling , settling , plundering ; they established a presence in Hawaii ; they shared with Britain the spoils of the Chinese treaty ports ; they took Samoa ; they befriended Korea ; they seized and settled Midway , Wake , Guam and ( a spoil of an Imperial war ) the Philippines — thus creating a series of stepping-stones , a lifeline of tropical islands that led all the way to that greatest and most elusive prize , the Middle Kingdom , China . |
| 9 | I know have to give my conclusions to the resolution of that conflicting and often very , very massive evidence as to how the plaintiff 's care routine will change , when it will change and from where the carers will come . |
| 10 | After 5 October 1968 a poorly organised and deeply divided movement attempted to apply some of the methods used in the Deep South . |
| 11 | No master pleaded for his future : it seemed that he had traded in his scholarship for that foreign and rather dangerous element-self-expression . |
| 12 | More immediately , while realism dictated that Mary would go to England when she married , Henry was told very bluntly that she must not go sooner : such a demand would be ‘ a right high and right great inconvenience to the realm of Scotland ’ , and parliament trusted to the English king 's ‘ high wisdom ’ , and assumed that he would not insist . |
| 13 | Of course , Brian himself was a boss , if one counted being Head of Humanities in a poorly funded and now much-threatened Adult Education Institute as being a boss . |
| 14 | Particularly in the universities , and even more particularly in those universities which have a strong residential and sometimes collegial tradition , the experience of higher education is regarded as a unity , a totality , an organic whole ( or in more modern terms a package ) which it is neither desirable nor possible to dissect . |
| 15 | It is anti-static stain-resistant and very hardwearing . |
| 16 | The concept of balance implies that a trade-off is always possible ; that different and sometimes mutually exclusive objectives can be accommodated simply by spatial separation . |
| 17 | The petals of the flowers had dropped , and spilled brown and carelessly over the floor . |
| 18 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 19 | And we saw the religious people , the religious men , who erm are the only people that are allowed to smoke drugs , you know , illegal drugs er things like marijuana , they 're actually allowed to because the people view them as half alive and half dead and that was interesting to see . |
| 20 | You , my dear , you 're half in love with your husband , then there 's Martha who 's half a child and half a girl , Richard who ca n't give up being half in the Navy , Willis who 's half an artist and half a longshoreman , a cat who 's half alive and half dead . |
| 21 | Cos they 're always on about credit allowances and this that and therefore |
| 22 | It 's not cheap , especially considering the straightforwardness of the design , and there 's some strong and equally nostalgic competition about . |
| 23 | More generally one can say that for attitudinism ethical statements invite the hearer ( or perhaps the speaker when in discourse with himself ) to express his agreement or disagreement in attitude , or perhaps join in a shared attempt to arrive at some stable and better based attitude , towards what is in question , and that this is quite a different matter from any discussion concerning the psychological state , of approving or disapproving , on either the speaker 's or hearer 's part . |
| 24 | It turns out that the system depends on some subtle and hitherto unnoticed peculiarities of the logic , in combination with general features of graphical representations . |
| 25 | This economic and fairly sparse architecture fulfilled the need for simplicity mentioned above . |
| 26 | Beador knew the ground well for he led the way unhesitatingly through a maze of rides , some broad and straight , some narrow and zigzag . |
| 27 | Nothing for the archives and nothing that could be sold off , this bric-a-brac had obviously been stored against the possibility of some surviving and previously untraced relative appearing to claim it . |
| 28 | Our recommended list for this relatively-open and well filtered style of tank , with plenty of water movement , is given , plus some recommendations for other styles of community tank . |
| 29 | In this pleasant and mostly satisfying environment , the personal stage of role acquisition occurs . |
| 30 | It makes the business of learning English simpler and more fun for students and teachers . |