Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 2 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 3 | With regard to children 's adjustment when there is a step-parent and a non-custodial visiting parent , the research evidence is less clear and obviously the age of the child can be a crucial factor which has not yet been properly researched . |
| 4 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 5 | Environmentalists claim that there is insufficient evidence to argue that dioxins are not harmful and therefore the precautionary principle should be enforced , and a ban be placed on all chlorine bleaching . |
| 6 | The state does become omnipotent and now the delusion of passive impotence — perhaps the central conflict in paranoia — becomes a reality . |
| 7 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 8 | Life may indeed have been nasty , brutal and short a few hundred thousand years ago , but there are those who claim that at least the shortness was a benefit in comparison with modern human existence . |
| 9 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 10 | Moving it from the training camp ground to the hospital ward was the most commercial and seemingly the most obvious — course to be taken . |
| 11 | At the show I was disappointed by the few craftsmen apparent and felt that the show was overly commercial and really the domain of the equipment seller , indeed the price for the floor space and stands etc. would almost guarantee this . |
| 12 | The most common colour is solid dark red and the breed originated from local red-and-white Breton cattle ( such as the Breton Red Pied and possibly the Froment du Léon ) crossed with Durham Shorthorns from 1840 . |
| 13 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 14 | Er so we are elusive and maybe the time will be , will come when we really must put it all down . |
| 15 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 16 | Land prices there are very high and so the land is used intensively . |
| 17 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 18 | But when he spoke it was not of her but of Peach , how to feed him , what sort of supplements he should have , that although he had had his routine immunizations , he must have a booster at a year old and also an injection against a new sort of feline virus . |
| 19 | Imported by Clara Hurley and Michael Grossman , when he was five years old and already a Dutch and Belgian champion , he gained his title taking a Best in Show along the way . |
| 20 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 21 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 22 | She was twenty-five years old and still a virgin , and as she looked at her image in the mirror great tears welled up and spilled over as she relived Ace 's words . |
| 23 | FATHER Christopher O'Neill 's baby daughter Jennifer is now four months old and still the priest , aided by the Catholic Church , remains in hiding . |
| 24 | The pelvic floor needs to be free for the voice to be free and then a voice has both highs and lows . |
| 25 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 26 | The lessons that the British and later the Americans drew from Dakar were twofold : first , the operational and political disadvantages of collaborative expeditions with Free France ; and second , the practical necessity of working with or at least through Vichy 's imperial administrators . |
| 27 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 28 | I use it throughout my work because , used skilfully and imaginatively , it can make any sort of communication more powerful , more exciting and frequently a lot more fun . |
| 29 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 30 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |