Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of this book , however , the wealth and variety of different designs on Greek and Roman coins give the greatest opportunities and indeed difficulties of interpretation . |
| 2 | Metaphors , descriptive words and even nouns can lead to vagueness and ambiguity for the reader . |
| 3 | Education has always been a low government spending priority , with the oligarchy preferring to send their children to private schools and then universities abroad . |
| 4 | ( Cauchy , in 1815 , had defined multiplication of permutations , whilst Gauss , in 1801 , had combined pairs of binary quadratic forms and also integers " mod p " . ) |
| 5 | Ufton went in for England 's third try in 49 minutes and then flanker Robert Leach touched down from a five-metre scrummage , Stimpson converting . |
| 6 | They drove on silently for a few minutes and then Mrs Lomax suddenly spoke . |
| 7 | For some species of spider will blatantly mimic the ‘ come-hither ’ sound signals and even sex pheromones of female moths , luring lusting males to a dinner party they had not expected . |
| 8 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
| 9 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 10 | This perspective is unduly restrictive of the role of law in its socially instrumental aspects and unduly kind to those who have power over the legislative and judicial functions of states in that to define law in terms of the pursuit of order seems unwarrantably to exclude the use of law to foment disorder when this seems desirable to the politically strong . |
| 11 | Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years . |
| 12 | By contrast , those patients with severe comorbid conditions had a consistently high mortality during the 2 years after discharge : 60% were alive after 12 months and only 30% after 24 months . |
| 13 | Sexual offences and particularly rape may fall into this category . |
| 14 | Censorship reflects the social concerns and even fears of society and government at the time . |
| 15 | In 1991 , 62% of management buyouts recorded in continental Europe consisted of divestments from domestic or foreign companies and only 33% from private or family companies . |
| 16 | Rachel and David joined in the quest for the green cases that housed the shiny brown conkers and soon pockets and paper bags were bulging as the collection grew , while the sound of spontaneous laughter hung in the still air . |
| 17 | As soon as he began to march south , German mercenaries and then men from the non-Norman states came to offer their services . |
| 18 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 19 | There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item . |
| 20 | Piece by piece , a picture emerged of wrong-doing in high places and eventually congress and law enforcement agencies were obliged to take action . |
| 21 | Mosaic floors , stencilled walls , ornamental cast-iron balustrades and even examples of original carpets have been photographed . |
| 22 | You 're looking for high fliers and even car firms can go bust the second year . |
| 23 | Indeed , many top athletes and even body-builders subsist on a vegetarian diet . |
| 24 | The wastes include lindane , DDT , out-of-date drugs , carcinogenic chemicals , old cigars and even pornography ( a different kind of pollution ) . |
| 25 | It has offered bonuses in British Telecom , British Gas , British Airways and lately water privatisation Concessionary Discounts , available from January 1990 for £2.50 from Seymour Pierce Butterfield , 10 Old Jewry , London , EC2R 8EA . |
| 26 | Later on , however , the names of those who had graduated in the social sciences and especially sociology were greeted with hissing disparagement and barely concealed denigration . |
| 27 | They exchanged a few banalities and then Patrick asked : ‘ You 're quite sure you did not have golf clubs in your car when you went to Romania ? ’ |
| 28 | In these circumstances almost every eighteenth-century army was likely to contain a large element of ne'er-do-wells , social misfits and even criminals . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , a depreciation of the dollar tends to reduce eurobond issuance , especially for dollar issues , suggesting that depreciation leads to expectations of further falls and hence losses for non-dollar based investors . |
| 30 | Close study of local plans will invariably produce some results and often sites , although small , have scope for replacing one dwelling with several . |