Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Shah resented this and subsequently noted that during Kennedys presidency there was " increased US intrigue against our country . " |
| 2 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 3 | I could not understand this and only knew that I was angry . |
| 4 | But you can believe this and still insist that love is our only hope . |
| 5 | In taking this position , the bishops were also following the lead of Pope John Paul II who , on his visit to Ireland in 1979 had argued : ‘ Divorce , for whatever reason it is introduced , inevitably becomes easier and easier to obtain and it gradually comes to be accepted as a normal part of life ’ ( 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 7 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 8 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 9 | Or should one take a middle road , trying to understand what goes wrong and then deciding whether it is easier to prevent or to cure ? |
| 10 | A staple gun is often quicker and safer to use than a hammer and nails . |
| 11 | The science may be old and well established as in mechanics , or novel as in biochemistry . |
| 12 | Their toys would fade or break , their pets would die , and they themselves would grow up and get old and surely follow if they did n't knuckle under and live their lives in dread and apprehension of the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | Indeed fluidity — of both form and texture is perhaps the chief characteristic of a type of music so free and richly varied that it defies definition . |
| 14 | Aged twenty-one and just commissioned when the Cigognes moved to Verdun , he had first leapt to fame the previous summer when , as a Corporal , he had despatched three German planes in a morning . |
| 15 | The Old English Pearmain , recorded in 1204 and so named because of its pear-like shape , was the main dessert apple until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | We have found this erroneous assumption held by some and therefore hope that our recommendations will go some way to dispel it . ’ |
| 17 | Her boyfriend was not interested and later denied that she had told him anything about it . |
| 18 | It will become more pliable and easier to cut and fit . |
| 19 | I am delighted to find you have been so successful in your Expedition : I heartily pray you may continue so to the end and safely return to Old England : I am much pleased too at hearing your health has not been affected in the slightest degree : pray be careful and never forget that upon your safety , hinges the welfare of numbers . ’ |
| 20 | The new FKW tool free modular system axe and hammer come with S-shaped shafts and should be lighter and better balanced than the original FKWs . |
| 21 | He continued to assert that he would not live beyond the age of forty and even implied that he would take steps to ensure this . |
| 22 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 23 | For one thing , Nijinsky started life so excitable and highly strung that O'Brien warned his owner he might not be trainable . |
| 24 | they are more comprehensive and open ended than assignments ; |
| 25 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 26 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 27 | While Rauschning emphasised reconciliation , understanding and harmony through balanced trade , Forster had been saying that reconciliation with the Poles was impossible and endlessly repeating that a return to the Reich was essential , but was prevented only by the intransigence of the vengeful Poles . |
| 28 | When Endill asked his mother about him she did not say much and never smiled as she normally did . |
| 29 | This relative generality of development is of great sociological importance , by contrast with the much more uneven and often specialized and exclusive development of forms of cultural production which depend on the use or transformation of non-human resources . |
| 30 | He is as impulsive and easily distracted as KLF leader Bill Drummond , and similarly shifts queer guises ( with scant regard for commercial consequences ) at an extraordinary rate . |