Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |
| 2 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 3 | The aquatic plesiosaur was first described in 1821 and soon afterwards an almost complete skeleton was unearthed from the rich fossil-bearing rocks of Lyme Regis in Dorset . |
| 4 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
| 5 | If conditions change only locally and temporarily then only individual differences will result , but , Darwin concludes , if conditions change overall and permanently then a new species will eventually be formed . |
| 6 | These are activities which we would be unable to perform without a detailed knowledge of their personal circumstances , and trying to persuade them auditing is even necessary or that anything has changed since Uncle Albert 's day , is nigh on impossible and certainly not an adequate reason for an additional fee . |
| 7 | The A one six eight between Dishforth and Thirsk still has the contraflow in place between the A one and the A nineteen and finally just a reminder that er contraflow on the A one at Catterick is causing southbound delays of between five and six miles . |
| 8 | He felt it was his duty to protect the girl if her claims against her father were right and just not a 1 5-year-old girl 's fantasies ’ . |
| 9 | Later came Mencken 's American Language , published in 1919 ; the quarterly American Speech was followed by Krapp 's English Language in America in 1925 and later still a linguistic atlas of the USA was produced . |
| 10 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 11 | In some cases local authorities have even set up their own associations to deal with this , although since many housing associations are organized on a regional and increasingly even a national basis , local input is likely to diminish over time . |
| 12 | In Type II the prevalence of clinical disease is comparatively low and often only a proportion of animals in the group are affected ; mortality in such animals is very high unless early treatment with an anthelmintic effective against both arrested and developing larval stages is instituted . |
| 13 | They could make their way over that and eventually up the cliff to the eleventh green of the golf-course , to the gate in the garden wall . |
| 14 | The well was dry and shortly thereafter the Marathon licences in Northern Ireland were relinquished . |
| 15 | Of these three , bad environment must of course be taken seriously , and it was not suggested that environmental factors did not play an important part in health deterioration , but ‘ environment is not the only factor so operative and possibly not the most important one ’ ( M'Gonigle and Kirby , 1936 , p. 148 ) . |
| 16 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 17 | You can not rely on them deputy speaker if the government is doing er in these orders er on auditors to be er the effective and certainly not the only er police force of financial institutions . |
| 18 | By about 1740 and probably earlier a definite distinction had emerged between the ‘ formal Cabinet ’ , a relatively large body which included a number of holders of great court and ceremonial offices , and the ‘ effective Cabinet ’ , a much smaller and more compact group of ministers . |
| 19 | Groin : The most famous target of all and consequently often the best defended . |
| 20 | He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved . |
| 21 | While a given social system probably has a finite set of religious requirements under given conditions , these can be satisfied in many and perhaps even an infinite variety of ways . |
| 22 | ‘ Here and here alone ’ , as E. J. Hobsbawm has put it , ‘ the bourgeois and even more the petit-bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness . ’ |
| 23 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 24 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 25 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 26 | Sun and salt water are equally drying and a combination of all three can prove harmful to your hair leaving it looking dull and frizzy and very much the worse-for-wear . |
| 27 | Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty . |
| 28 | I was thinking more of ‘ Tight Like This ’ , made in 1928 and probably still the best record ever made . |
| 29 | An advertising writer , he 's energetic , articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit . |
| 30 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |