Example sentences of "[vb base] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is to function as well as it possibly can , the body has several basic needs — nutrition , exercise , relaxation , sleep and so on — but , because of the hectic pace of twentieth century life , not enough attention is paid to ensuring that these needs are met . |
| 2 | Er , is right , the , the area of the mind that is open to , for example , sensory stimuli to your ears and eyes , touch and so on , things that you 're conscious of , is in your ego . |
| 3 | That will be as much as fun as er Sunday school I expect and probably just as well attended . |
| 4 | Alright yeah , I just want and even fucking arguing ! |
| 5 | Now that you see so it might be an idea If you have your table within the marquis , that does whatever you want it to do , that can talk to kids if they want and so forth , you see they they 're sort of juniors upwards . |
| 6 | For many people it is a matter of looking around for the car they want and then frantically trying to arrange the finance , whilst the ‘ offer ’ still holds . |
| 7 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 8 | Once ITV started , rules about advertisements were needed , concerning length , frequency , position in schedules , content and so on . |
| 9 | He 's good enough ; fit and fast enough , but financially is struggling to survive . |
| 10 | The work is for everyone — fit and not so fit — young and old . |
| 11 | I want you fit and well as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 12 | but it 's erm it does mean that you can , so to speak , design your teeth as a sort of decent engineering job and make them fit with one another and slide over one another and grind and so on . |
| 13 | Animals , infants , and deviant adults are said to see , hear , smell and so on , in those special circumstances , where we feel impelled to mark the similarity of their behaviour to that of human beings situated likewise whilst allowing for the inability to describe what they perceive . |
| 14 | Leaving aside the question of whether these descriptions may be generalized beyond the British context , a problem with the approach is that writers have tended to concentrate on the ‘ outward and visible signs ’ , the more manifest differences in collective bargaining structure , unionization , pay determination , conflict and so on , without providing a more general framework within which these phenomena may be seen . |
| 15 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 16 | The reader will soon detect a number of important things of interest that have been omitted ( room , examination , research and so on ) . |
| 17 | If not , the child may start to do something else ( scratch , look out of the window , fidget and so on ) . |
| 18 | Continue this exercise with items in a stationer 's , bakery , ironmonger 's , fish shop and so on . |
| 19 | For example recieve would have the same index as receive and so on . |
| 20 | You have to make your own decision about the type of condoms you want , thinking about factors such as the way they smell and taste ( if you want to use a condom in oral sex ) , how easy they are to put on and how they feel during sex , what they feel like , how much they cost and so on . |
| 21 | You 've got seven or more plants in the States elsewhere er you know on criteria such as erm quality and productivity , cost and so on . |
| 22 | So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down . |
| 23 | A few years ago , it was quite revolutionary to provide an aid , called Possum , for those who were quadriplegic ; it enabled the paralysed person , by blowing on a type of keyboard , to manipulate light switches , radio and television sets , telephone and so on . |
| 24 | In this literature , questions have been raised around a whole host of categories , relating to how far objects signify , symbolize , connote , denote , realize , constitute , reflect , embody and perhaps also objectify . |
| 25 | It is likely that intrinsic ( genetic ) and extrinsic ( environmental ) factors combined to produce the observed range of shell size , shape , colour , ornament and so forth . |
| 26 | The absence of musical form horrified Schoenberg , and a similar distaste helped to motivate the multifaceted serialism — in duration , pitch and so on — of Webern and , later , of Boulez . |
| 27 | Theoretical political economy is the study of a social economy based upon the production of commodities , i.e. the study of an unorganised social economy … as soon as we take an organised social economy , all the basic ‘ problems ’ of political economy disappear : problems of value , price , profit and so on . |
| 28 | Most of this level is involved in the physical functioning of our bodies — breathing , circulation , heartbeat and so on — and no more than a quarter is available for dealing with our conscious thought processes . |
| 29 | He took in the way the little boy 's hands stretched out over the crowd of distressed men as if to soothe them , and , for the first time in his life , he felt something that was not quite fear and not quite joy — an emptiness that longed to be filled . |
| 30 | This book should assist this process and help practitioners focus on what personal qualities and skills they bring and not just those areas in which help and information may be required . |