Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could see they were English , though how this was , since they were mostly gleaming brown and both elegantly and scantily dressed , it would be hard to say . |
| 2 | As with due diligence , the warranties in an asset sale are likely to be far shorter and hence quicker and cheaper to negotiate than in a share sale . |
| 3 | a so and so , er maths is crap and so on and you know , that 's that 's going to make this into something that we would n't want |
| 4 | Such cases are few and far between and few have been proven . |
| 5 | Deepwater creatures are few and far between and so have difficulty finding mates . |
| 6 | Facilities for treatment may be few and far between and inaccessible , especially for overlanders and for those taking more adventurous trips . |
| 7 | Those qualified chartered accountants who fail to make the grade within their own firms and become available on the market will be few and far between and , because of the large firm culture , may be less suited to smaller firms or industry and commerce . |
| 8 | Proven strikers are few and far between and Ferguson can not afford to gamble on potential . |
| 9 | A Aequidens rivulatus got its common name back in the days when medium-sized fish were few and far between and by the standards then it was a Terror of an aquarium fish . |
| 10 | Motor roads in Sutherland are few and far between and so are the villages they serve . |
| 11 | But my periods were very few and far between and I also had excessive and embarrassing hair growth . |
| 12 | It 's meaningless and long ago and far away and — ’ He tapped his pipe out aggressively in a saucer . |
| 13 | But a younger and rapidly up and coming pianist-conductor was John Avison , who directed many programmes of light classical music , with choirs and organ . |
| 14 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 15 | Gerald Wildish , the unit general manager of the Victoria Hospital said after chatting to the teenager in her hospital bed today : ‘ She thought Blackpool would be probably somewhat livelier and possibly safer and cheaper than other resorts . |
| 16 | Y T alright , is a of constant alpha plus beta into erm X T plus lander X T Y is one that 's lander squared , X T minus two plus lander cubed , X T minus three and so on and so on into infinity . |
| 17 | It 's an opportunity for the company to become efficient at the same time , to have new life injected into it , to bring on and develop talented younger people who might otherwise become stifled and consequently up and go . |
| 18 | Soft and then harder and harder . |
| 19 | Now th he was saying that , it 's being argued here that , that very seldom is it that the punishment exceeded the crime , that they 're able to assess , look at the behaviour of the people in power before the movement er gathered pace and to , to , to assess how they er they were , how sort of humane and so on and , and by saying that depending on how you , you , you did before hand , you w you now your punishment , it will , will be a administered accordingly which is an interesting concept , I 'm not sure quite how accurate these assessments could 've been , I think really when things get going it 's er really very difficult to stop them . |
| 20 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 21 | Er so it 's all , all frightfully open-ended , and flexible and so on and |
| 22 | Although Belfast has a much smaller and less socially and ethnically heterogeneous population than Philadelphia , the community studies resembled Labov 's neighbourhood studies in that they were designed to give broad coverage of major geographical , status and ethnic divisions in the city . |
| 23 | ‘ He will be softer , cuddlier and more environmentally and socially aware . ’ |
| 24 | In some countries , such as Nigeria , Ghana and Kenya , developments have been very considerable but the process is necessarily slower and perhaps deeper and more lasting for that . |
| 25 | It is also top-down , in that the entities are identified first and then more and more detail filled in , as where the attributes of the entities are identified . |
| 26 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 27 | What we do at the end of the year we have n't quite worked out , but we are very much committed to sharing child care and professional space if you like , but we are very privileged in that academic work allows one the flexibility to work in the hours that you find convenient and so on and allows you the flexibility to make this kind of family arrangement . |
| 28 | not to leave our handbags er in the car , not to leave the windows open and so on and I think that really dodges the issue of why people commit criminal acts . |
| 29 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 30 | Right , well if we multiply both sides , we multiply both sides of B right , by this co-efficient lander alright , we get right , lander by T minus one , lander erm right then what we do is that we get beta into lander X T minus one plus lander squared , X T minus two lander cubed , X T minus three , and lander to four X T minus four and so on and so s so on until infinity right . |