Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in . |
| 2 | The single was too short , too light and too throwaway . |
| 3 | Close scrutiny of this second kind of heavily cratered terrain reveals that the subsaturation level of cratering is not the result of the partial obliteration of a once saturated surface , but the partial reworking of an old and largely crater free surface . |
| 4 | On other appliances , terms were less generous and usually subject , like those of other retailers , to government credit restrictions . |
| 5 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 6 | The giant scheme has been criticised inside and outside China on scientific , economic , environmental , social and even defence grounds . |
| 7 | Remember , Bowyer 's and Southgate 's boots were wet and so leather would swell a little . |
| 8 | There are 5 arm spines obscured by thick skin ; when denuded they appear glossy and quite rugose with large secondary points along the shaft of the spine . |
| 9 | However , for many items it is both perfectly adequate and extremely cost effective . |
| 10 | The general justification for having a system of punishment must therefore be forward-looking and primarily reductivist : based on the claim that punishment does something to reduce the incidence of crime , and thereby prevents the diminution of some other people 's positive freedom . |
| 11 | In order to make their claim that his decentred totality is still expressive and therefore essentialist , they have to ignore the arguments about temporality in the critique of the Hegelian essential section as ‘ the co-existence of presence ’ , and thus fail to do justice to the way in which Althusser constructs , as Foucault puts it , ‘ a counter-memory — a transformation of history into a totally different form of time ’ . |
| 12 | Excellent , individual and about time . |
| 13 | Furthermore , nutritional treatment tended to be recommended for the more symptomatic and already growth impaired children . |
| 14 | Rosenberg could sense the counter-accusations ringing across the Atlantic , the worst of them perhaps unspoken : Americans had idealist and somewhat puritan expectations of how Dr Aveling should have behaved , Americans are a simple people , literal-minded and dependent on secondary sources of information . |
| 15 | To begin with I found the playing a little mannered , although I soon became involved in the thoughtful and musicianly approach of these artists . |
| 16 | Being a Special is unpaid and therefore commitment to the job is all important . |
| 17 | Erm so who do we put into the suggestion of perhaps you will look at that with a very serious and maybe sort of er or by to take seventy three million . |
| 18 | At the ICA cinemas Scorsese × 4 , a 75-minute programme of short , early and sometimes student films by America 's distinguished Martin Scorsese . |
| 19 | The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country . |
| 20 | A voidable title is less than perfect and yet section 23 allows a seller with a voidable title to confer a perfect title upon an innocent purchaser . |
| 21 | In a less flamboyant way , numberless provisions of state law , county councils , and local authorities , regulate and make possible the wealth , power , and by most people 's lights , the reasonable and necessary exclusivity , of clubs , societies , schools , and universities which foster fraternal and even class loyalties . |
| 22 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 23 | Standard weepers are produced by budding and sometimes grafting , rambler types into stems a foot ( 30cm ) or more higher than bush types in order to enhance the weeping effect . |
| 24 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 25 | Unlike the arts , the shortage of NHS funds causes suffering and even death . |
| 26 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 27 | If you then get a complete change in regime , as happened in nineteen forty-five , if you get re-education , if you get a completely new economic and indeed world , international situation , then of course the Germans become different people . |
| 28 | MI5 never replied , GCHQ expressed polite and emphatically arm 's length interest , and the CIA offered help , exhibits and the information that the only other museum of spying they know of is in Havana . |
| 29 | And Muscat , produced in either a dry , sweet and sour style , pungent and uniquely grapey , or the unctuously sweet , late-picked versions . |
| 30 | Firstly the training tends to be too narrow and secondly profit is the primary goal . |