Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Although much talk went on it was n't until 1876 and then again in April 1892 , that meetings were called to consider " A bridge across the Medway " .
2 Instead it would be an expression of preferences , indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite the name of the first-preferred candidate , the figure 2 opposite the name of the second-preferred and so on .
3 It can however be said that the principle of justice , embodied in Martin B. 's judgment in Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and perhaps also in Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 , and expressed in the dicta of Lord Atkin and Sir Owen Dixon , still calls for attention ; and the central question in the present case is whether your Lordships ' House , deriving their inspiration from the example of those two great judges , should rekindle that fading flame and reformulate the law in accordance with that principle .
4 from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for
5 All this and much else of a similar kind was orthodoxy to the Peripatetics .
6 The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign .
7 The whole of the synthetic dyeing industry arose from this and subsequently completely replaced natural dyes .
8 ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members .
9 To do some other tasks , you do this , this , this , this and this and so on .
10 Cos that 's how you measure jobs when you in erm When you 're sort of managing projects or something or so many man hours to build this and then so many man hours to do this and then so many man hours to do that .
11 Cos that 's how you measure jobs when you in erm When you 're sort of managing projects or something or so many man hours to build this and then so many man hours to do this and then so many man hours to do that .
12 For weeks it would go on like this and then suddenly one day you would notice him just lying in the sun instead of studying his map , or reading a novel instead of his German grammar .
13 They continued on along the line of booths , each with its owner sitting on the counter among his stained , dirty jars like some vast black spider , past the long , carpet-covered benches in front of them with the rows of men drinking coffee and smoking and talking , past the assorted smells of rose and jasmine , amber and banana , past the odd little restaurants with their grand brass jugs of hot water , their servants hurrying with coffee in glasses to some merchant about to strike a deal , past all this and then suddenly through the arch of the Bab es Zuweyla with its two soaring and fantastic minarets and out once more into the Tentmakers ' Bazaar with its donkey-saddles of red brocade and its camel-trappings adorned with cowries and little bits of looking-glass , its gaily-striped awnings and brilliant tent linings .
14 The garage dismissed this and unfortunately so did we , 3000 miles and much oil later , fortunately near a town on the Route du Hoggar , the engine seized up .
15 This and more already happens on satellite and cable channels , which are under the more lenient gaze of the Cable Authority .
16 It 's not unusual for horses to do this and more often than not it is just a tiny nick and does n't cause any problem or any pain .
17 The strange thing is that not all amateur operators seem to understand this and only about half the country 's licensed amateurs are members of the RSGB .
18 Larger libraries were also more likely to want trainee supernumerary posts , perhaps because small libraries did not expect to be able to achieve this and therefore rarely mentioned it .
19 Perhaps partly as a result of this and perhaps partly as a result of the government 's view that regional aid should be more immediately directed towards assisting business skills and enterprise within smaller companies , a further major review of regional policy was published in 1988 ( DTI , 1988 ) .
20 While both groups of thinkers tend to admit the lack of preventive policies and the need for more resources here , the kinship school is more acutely conscious of this and perhaps more optimistic about what preventive services might achieve in terms of better parenting .
21 It is more mystical and far more intense and possesses passionate fervour :
22 In terms of Sioux values , the acquisitive individual of Western society would at best be regarded as peculiar and more probably would be condemned as grasping , self-seeking and antisocial .
23 If the design appears clear and even throughout , and the foundation strands form a neat grid , then the knotting is almost certainly regular .
24 These provide a clear and very carefully controlled approach to English handwriting .
25 And increasingly dependent and probably quite erm accustomed to the way their life is running in the home .
26 Thus , the policing of a community by means of a consensus is always easier and therefore more desirable than a policy of coercion , which relies simply on greater strength .
27 There are several usable magic items here ( and some the adventurers wo n't be able to use ) , but their form is always unorthodox and sometimes rather unpleasant .
28 As society changed further , and especially as the political independence of the courts within which the poets worked was weakened and finally lost , the social relations changed again , and the literary organization became at once more specialized and more socially disconnected .
29 Erm we 've heard from Mr Williamson that it fills a strategic gap and guidance and that pressures on the countryside are exerted daily and curiously enough it was n't a policy of restraint or restriction .
30 The average Briton who is not attempting to shed weight is consuming between 2,000 and 3,000 calories daily and only around 15 to 20 grams of fibre .
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