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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The well was dry and shortly thereafter the Marathon licences in Northern Ireland were relinquished . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An advertising writer , he 's energetic , articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit . |
| 18 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |
| 19 | It deserves a star for its interior alone and maybe even a second for the brilliant horseradish mousse . |
| 20 | Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large . |
| 21 | Van Cleef was wonderfully evil and perhaps not a little of Eastwood 's taciturn appeal lay in the compelling menace of his adversary . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | I recall someone complaining about those little cartoon drawings of you lot , I would just like to say that I think they are very comical and nowadays virtually every computer magazine has them ( except for crappy ones like Amstrad Action ! ) . |
| 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 | Quite delightful and quite probably a monster hit . |
| 28 | Obviously , there are limits to how long options can be kept open and fairly soon a commitment will have to be made . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |