Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this season completed double here when led entering straight , qknd clear and comfortably bt Swift Silver 3l ( 1m 3f , Sft ) . |
| 2 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 3 | The giant scheme has been criticised inside and outside China on scientific , economic , environmental , social and even defence grounds . |
| 4 | Baker visited Saudi Arabia and Jordan on July 20-21 and both King Fahd and King Hussein announced their support for the US plan and for the Egyptian initiative . |
| 5 | Working in Habitat on Kings Road proved to be depressingly similar and again Ms Ledson was paid off , that time after three weeks . |
| 6 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | David Whittaker hit an unbeaten 48 as Ormskirk reached 127–5 and then Paul Griffiths took four wickets for 19 runs as St Helens replied with 113–9 . |
| 9 | At the ICA cinemas Scorsese × 4 , a 75-minute programme of short , early and sometimes student films by America 's distinguished Martin Scorsese . |
| 10 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 11 | Saltburn struggled last season but they restricted hosts Middlesbrough to a total of 163 for six and then Mark Walker , whose 90 included 13 fours , and Indian professional Mukund Palmar ( 65 ) , shared an unbroken partnership of 137 to snatch a nine-wicket away win . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy |
| 14 | The rapist , believed to be aged 20 to 22 years , was described as lean but muscular and about 5ft 8in tall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Our Daily Bread was released in 1934 and immediately Otis Ferguson contrasted ‘ Hollywood 's aversion to social content ’ to ‘ Mr Vidor 's preoccupation with it ’ . |
| 17 | Our cover was terrific and neither Scotland Yard bodyguard had a chance of spotting us . |
| 18 | In exchange for that and about £35 worth of New Zealand dollars , I got my validation from Canterbury AC 's CFI , Murray Fowler . |
| 19 | The steering was both ingenious and strong and again Mr. Player was called upon , on this occasion to provide the steering wheel . |
| 20 | While the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) decision R v Sanyo Electrical Manufacturing ( UK ) Ltd , is a case which is of interest in its own right , its real significance is that it is yet more evidence of an increasing awareness by the courts of the crucial role they have to play in securing a healthier and safer working environment by ensuring that infractions of health and safety , and related legislation , are properly penalised . |
| 21 | Presumably the well of fast bowlers will one day run dry and then West Indies will have to devise a new strategy ; after all , India did not fare too badly in the 1960s and '70s with a quartet of spinners . |
| 22 | Liberal Democrat Robert Maclennan formerly Labour and briefly SDP leader in 1987–88 , looks unassailable with more than 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , cold war traditions appeared to die hard and neither Douglas Hurd nor James Baker seem to have ‘ factored in ’ a Soviet component for their proposals . |
| 24 | I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist . |
| 25 | How could Ezpeleta , a soldier-administrator well on in his seventies and now Captain General in Barcelona , be expected to appeal to the unemployed dockers , artisans , and cotton operatives , called by the French commander l'immense canaille de Barcelone , against an overwhelmingly superior French garrison ? |
| 26 | Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier . |
| 27 | The reference to Newcomen engines disappearing underground is puzzling and perhaps Professor Hoskins misunderstood their function . |
| 28 | Water condition : Soft and slightly acid conditions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Hence the need to develop this centralised co-ordination and control in order best to utilise these valuable and potentially life saving resources of ours . ’ |