Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The well was dry and shortly thereafter the Marathon licences in Northern Ireland were relinquished . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Groin : The most famous target of all and consequently often the best defended . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was thinking more of ‘ Tight Like This ’ , made in 1928 and probably still the best record ever made . |
| 16 | An advertising writer , he 's energetic , articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit . |
| 17 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |
| 18 | The larger the battery capacity , the faster and more deeply the charge/discharge can occur . |
| 19 | These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work . |
| 20 | Valuable information as to the different types of method available and more particularly the best present practice recommended for certain specified trades and industries is available from various reports , in particular the Odour Reports and subsequent research reports published by the working party and ADAS mentioned earlier . |
| 21 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |
| 22 | Doggedly , they fly higher and higher up the flanks of the mountains towards piles of immense granite boulders that lie close to the summits . |
| 23 | I said she had been trained properly , I was telling them just basically about Claire in general and just about the good of erm , things like things you like to talk about , and erm , so I just , I said , they cried poverty , I said , but you know , one minute she 's driving her old banger , and the next minute she 's got a K reg and outside the , |
| 24 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
| 25 | Likewise , example ( 24 ) suggests that the event was unforeseen and therefore all the more outrageous : ( 24 ) To lose his bargain through the obstinacy of a fool , to have his patronage overlooked by a subordinate , choked him with rage . |
| 26 | We then tried to rent a garage ( long and thin and hence more the shape of a church ! ) but this fell through too . |
| 27 | From the 1850s and more particularly the 1870s onwards military considerations — new weapons , the importance of rapid and effective mobilisation in case of war , the balance of military and to a lesser extent naval power in general — were more prominent and pervasive than in the past . |
| 28 | Stalinist And once again the mad axemen from Wapping and elsewhere will be sharpening their stilettos ( knives not heels ) in the hope of finally despatching the manager they see as a soccer Satanist . |
| 29 | Last night , a spokesman for the Lord Chancellor 's Department said : ‘ The secure area of the court was refurbished in 1989 and as always the Home Office was consulted throughout the proceedings . |
| 30 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |