Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not unusual for horses to do this and more often than not it is just a tiny nick and does n't cause any problem or any pain . |
| 2 | His penis and testicles are as fresh and as hard as a spring bulb . |
| 3 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 4 | You wo n't get your own room or anything but it 's free and probably better than nothing . ’ |
| 5 | This would result in his rhythms running more slowly when he was interested and more quickly when he was bored ( because he would go to bed earlier due to the lack of something interesting to do and so require less sleep ) . |
| 6 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 7 | These people are fortunately few and far between because they are extremely odd and have a way of upsetting applecarts . |
| 8 | Are sufficiently talented people as few and far between as functionalists suggest' ? |
| 9 | Third Class golfers must have been few and far between as my ticket example is only number 16 ! |
| 10 | However , they are in fact quite straightforward and often easier than those involved in a dedicated database package . |
| 11 | The men gossiped as much and as scurrilously as ourselves . |
| 12 | When the lights dimmed again she would slip out by the rear exit , and it would be dark outside and very late when she came back . |
| 13 | When the first bowl has filled , the water falls into the second and so on until it reaches the pool below . |
| 14 | Ideally you should end up with less than six and probably more than one or two remedies to consider in greater detail in the tables . |
| 15 | The question is , how did these people come to see themselves primarily as nervous and only secondarily as hungry , malnourished ? |
| 16 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 17 | Our aim is to get as many points as possible and as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 19 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 20 | Food is scarce and more often than not they go hungry . |
| 21 | Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) . |
| 22 | Differences between disciplines are not , of course , hard and fast even though , at times , they can become crucial . |
| 23 | Also , in Deanos support , He does work hard and effectively even when he s not scoring . |
| 24 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 25 | In Barbados ( and other places such as Jamaica and Antigua ) , the wickets are fast and so the bowlers have traditionally bowled fast , while the batsmen have looked to attack at every opportunity , to hit the ball as hard and as gleefully as possible . |
| 26 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 27 | We have to dig deep into records to find these and then only if they have committed a crime or some other act do they get their names recorded . |
| 28 | Nations and nationalism will be present in this history , but in subordinate and often rather than minor roles . |
| 29 | Most Bewick 's Swans are now recorded in wet grasslands or large areas of open water in the interior , although des Forges and Harber record none in the interior before 1940 and as recently as 1961 most were still seen at the coast . |
| 30 | A DC changes state from PROPOSED to AGREED only when the last interested user has accepted the DC using option 2.2.0 and only then if all interested users have accepted it . |