Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conciliation officers are often reluctant to express an opinion about the likelihood of success before the tribunal , but will make clear an opinion whether the case appears to them one which is strong or weak and so ought to settle . |
| 2 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 3 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
| 4 | ‘ There is all the difference in the world between withholding medical treatment that 's either painful or futile and deliberately withholding food . |
| 5 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 6 | It is essential for the efficiency of a modern financial system to analyse all the securities traded in it , since only then is it possible to determine whether securities are fairly priced or whether they are underpriced or overpriced and hence give rise to profitable trading possibilities . |
| 7 | In the 1990S it was the end of the road that started with living on credit like everyone else on the scale of everyone else , became slightly more extended than most and then wholly unmanageable . |
| 8 | To do some other tasks , you do this , this , this , this and this and so on . |
| 9 | The taxpayer , however , contended that , on a literal reading , its meaning was clear and unambiguous and accordingly there was no alternative but to give effect to the express statutory language . |
| 10 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 11 | However , in the solar pond the lower levels of water are more saline and heavier and therefore can not rise . |
| 12 | She felt calm and happy and not at all angry with Alice , who looked frowsty and hot , lying in the crumpled bed . |
| 13 | She was calm and sweet and later insisted on taking Phoebe out to dinner at some fancy little pseudo-Bohemian bistro . |
| 14 | The panelled dining room and lounge ( with TV ) are sun-lit in the morning ( in cooler weather the dining room glows with a log fire ) , and the four comfortable spacious bedrooms are light and airy and attractively furnished in period furniture and antiques . |
| 15 | Everything was light and airy and immensely inviting . |
| 16 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 17 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 18 | The standard is high and varied and well worth a visit if one is in the area . |
| 19 | It ran , high and level and almost straight , from the north , where its Precipitous crags dropped sheer from the edge , black against the pale , early morning light , to the south , where a jagged lump stood up , breaking its smooth run . |
| 20 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
| 21 | What she saw amounted almost to an urge to confess ; not to any offence , but to something that was old and troubling and somehow unresolved . |
| 22 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
| 23 | She herself felt old and stiff and unspeakably weary . |
| 24 | Analysis of the sequence of this gene reveals that it is most closely related to Oct-1 and Oct-2 and thus is the third member of the POU class II family isolated . |
| 25 | For example , in the first quarter of the 19th century , the county 's population ranged between 85,000 and 100,000 and as late as 1860 was still under 200,000 . |
| 26 | It is an activity of the brave and strong and not of the cowardly , for ‘ Cowardice and Ahimsā do not go together any more than water and fire . ’ |
| 27 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 28 | But it was so damp and cold and not nice was it ? |
| 29 | The cottage was damp and cold and eventually , the ladies drove over to Aberfeldy to complain . |
| 30 | ‘ Come on , Francis , what about if you were forty some and straight and never kissed a man before ? |