Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 2 | The giant scheme has been criticised inside and outside China on scientific , economic , environmental , social and even defence grounds . |
| 3 | Rosenberg could sense the counter-accusations ringing across the Atlantic , the worst of them perhaps unspoken : Americans had idealist and somewhat puritan expectations of how Dr Aveling should have behaved , Americans are a simple people , literal-minded and dependent on secondary sources of information . |
| 4 | At the ICA cinemas Scorsese × 4 , a 75-minute programme of short , early and sometimes student films by America 's distinguished Martin Scorsese . |
| 5 | In a less flamboyant way , numberless provisions of state law , county councils , and local authorities , regulate and make possible the wealth , power , and by most people 's lights , the reasonable and necessary exclusivity , of clubs , societies , schools , and universities which foster fraternal and even class loyalties . |
| 6 | But in the much longer term it seems doubtful that diversification should be exclusively towards nuclear power , which carries its own commercial , political and possibly safety risks . |
| 7 | Water condition : Soft and slightly acid conditions . |
| 8 | Right , at the last Committee , it was suggested that the figures be presented to Committee on a town by town basis , I E not the wider travel to work areas , the reason being that the travel to work areas are , are quite large and sometimes mask differences in rates of unemployment between different settlements . |
| 9 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 11 | A commitment to East European art seems to be prominent ; so too African and broadly Third-World developments , with an implied attempt to transcend the barriers which isolate them from a self-defining ‘ First World ’ ; historical figures whose critical recuperation is overdue ; promising younger artists , whom the remainder of the British art world traditionally shun . |
| 12 | The embracing of , and subsequent attempts to police , sports and competition rock climbing , have created all kinds of ethical dilemmas and paradoxes for the BMC , resulting in an unworkable policy on these new and distinctly minority aberrations of real climbing . |
| 13 | TVs , bedlinen and even life jackets are available . |