Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has changed and not changed : hatred is after all most annoying and cognisance is a very quaint affair ’ ( 14 ) . |
| 2 | During the whole study period the same strict policy was adopted : patients underwent endoscopy at admission as soon as they were haemodynamically stable and emergency sclerotherapy was initiated ass a primary therapy in case of active or recent variceal bleeding using either polidocanol or more recently cyanoacrylate . |
| 3 | The group seems to have been given only the most broad and general of aims . |
| 4 | The quadrennial elections in London were , by some degree , afforded the most political and media attention . |
| 5 | In particular , most metalinguistic and comprehension tasks are examples of what Margaret Donaldson ( 1978 ) refers to as ‘ disembedded tasks ’ , and as such are likely to prove difficult for young children . |
| 6 | Example 107 gives a melody from a solo piece in the free twelve-note manner , rather florid and virtuoso in style : Note the rhythmic irregularity and lack of classical rhythmic shapes . |
| 7 | When Canon Wheeler had finished with her , Julia had wanted to go away somewhere private and weep . |
| 8 | And besides , ’ he added in a mocking drawl , ‘ you seemed remarkably grateful and content in my arms last night ! ’ |
| 9 | Mostly dry and cold elsewhere . |
| 10 | And like a big body on small legs , i in a away they 're sort of rather wobbling and crumbling . |
| 11 | Berried holly was rather scarce and dear this year and their bunch was not very large . |
| 12 | He had the prior stiffly erect and somewhat pale in the face by this time , though the manner of the questioning was altogether reverent and grave , even deprecating . |
| 13 | In the Acts of Thomas , there is the following quotation : ‘ Twin brother of Christ , apostle of the Most High and fellow initiate into the hidden word of Christ , who dost receive his secret sayings … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ With every part of me , ’ he said , and his voice was rough and a little unsteady and Robyn , in that moment , knew that what he said was true . |
| 15 | As such they do n't deserve punishment , rather understanding and sympathy . |
| 16 | Clients were almost exclusively European and predominantly French and Belgian . |
| 17 | to say that erm erm they are saying that erm she 's most funny and things like that and she 's got great depth . |
| 18 | Gedda is at his most genial and liquid , while Sénéchal is artfully characterful with some of the spicier songs . |
| 19 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 20 | Surprisingly it can happen in retail chains when the strategy has gone badly wrong and trouble occurs on all fronts at the same time . |
| 21 | They date and marry stars , dress in designer clothes , and are phenomenally rich and cosmopolitan . |
| 22 | Annie was so solid and content , she was like a shiny red apple . |
| 23 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 24 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 25 | For later generations , however , the chances of getting work on leaving school were much lower and access to higher education and housing has also changed . |
| 26 | On the basis of US experience , Edwards ( 1979 ) identified a progression of employer strategies from ‘ simple ’ ( direct ) control in small firms , whereby arbitrary power to issue instructions and discipline employees is accorded to foremen and supervisors , 8 through ‘ technical ’ control in which machines set the pace of work , especially in mass-production industries , to a ‘ bureaucratic ’ stage where work becomes highly stratified and employers develop a system of impersonal rules to control workers . |
| 27 | Declaring it a dangerous precedent , they sought letters patent assuring them that it would not be so used and letters of indemnity for not following the king overseas on campaign . |
| 28 | CONTRARY to reports in certain sections of the media , the Royal Bank 's customer care policy is still very much alive and jumping . |
| 29 | There seem to be our two groups er , in one of our provinces and they say that the rich and poor but the rich er er are not so rich and others . |
| 30 | She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind . |