Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the coverage of the war was blatantly manipulated by political and military authorities . |
| 2 | There are no recent counts of breeding pairs round either of the western harbours , but counts of young there indicate little change since 1947 and suggest a total population of rather under 100 pairs . |
| 3 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 4 | Clinton dismissed the allegations as " an old story that was widely reported in 1978 and has been regularly recycled by the Republicans " . |
| 5 | A five-member constituency could have about 330,000 voters , widely dispersed in rural and semi-rural areas , and in cities not all living in close and homogeneous proximity . |
| 6 | But these rooms were much altered between 1865 and 1868 in a neo-Rococo style that was intended to blend with the 18C Rococo designs of Pacassi for the proposed coronation of Emperor Franz Josef I. In the end the emperor refused the crown of Bohemia deeming it too dangerous to accept it and upset the Hungarians . |
| 7 | The right-wing ideologue Frederich Hayek wrote : ‘ Obligations can only exist towards known and identifiable individuals . |
| 8 | The Woodward team not only distinguished between small and large batches , as described in paragraph 5 above , but also between large batches produced by single machines or batteries of machines and large batches produced on assembly lines . |
| 9 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
| 10 | Peake arrived at the Victoria Ground highly recommended by Little and Pool boss Alan Murray said : ‘ Now we know why . |
| 11 | competition , public opinion and … law and regulation , all supplemented by moral and ethical aspects . |
| 12 | One of the contradictions is that although at some levels we have an immense range of choices , at other levels we are very much constrained by economic and social facts and pressures . |
| 13 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 14 | Some important iconographic sources have been published by Neal Zaslaw , especially relating to 1674 and 1747 . |
| 15 | The world famous cathedrals of the Île de France , all built between 1150 and 1300 ( though parts were added to or altered later ) , are similar to one another . |
| 16 | This model was only made in 1913 and 1914 . |
| 17 | The more you observe the bird and the animal life you begin to realize that they 're not so dump after all and if anything they begin to look and behave more like human beings every day . |
| 18 | Sapphires owed their attraction to their blue colour , recalling that of the long-treasured lapis lazuli , and were eagerly appropriated by Hellenistic and Roman jewellers . |
| 19 | And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking . |
| 20 | But the originality of the Scheme lies in the fact that the reader is not merely presented with relevant and essential observations about language teaching methodology . |
| 21 | Although the road was originally intended to be a private toll-financed venture , the feasibility study suggested that tolls could only contribute between 30 and 40 per cent of the revenue required . |
| 22 | Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs . |
| 23 | The main causes of the decline are perhaps connected with contemporary and major changes in agricultural practice , but climatic factors have also contributed , with a series of cool damp summers , particularly in the 1950s , contributing to a high chick mortality on the coastal plain , for example . |
| 24 | Methil was only developing between 1875 and 1900 but still shipped 400,000 tons in 1888 and was up to 1.7m by 1900 . |
| 25 | I 've only got like two and three quarters |
| 26 | Despite this obvious fact , people prefer paper money as they are interested mainly in its purchasing power and the convenience of handling it — in the latter respect paper money is much preferred to heavier and bulkier coins . |
| 27 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 28 | As a foundation material it is only used by nomadic and some village weavers . |
| 29 | It is a technique much used by national and multinational companies — a shorthand which the general public quickly comes to identify with a particular organization . |
| 30 | Supplies of red stones were already available in the form of garnets , and it is known that these were much used by Hellenistic and Roman jewellers . |