Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] and [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come right in and get those wet things off . |
| 2 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . |
| 4 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 5 | And because dense bones tend to sink , black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat . |
| 6 | Scrap the thing so far and begin another . |
| 7 | We felt that our arguments ‘ hold up ’ extremely well and deserved more recognition in the outcome since they answered at least two of the board 's main arguments against the reduction of differentials . |
| 8 | O K the Cold War , you 've got Russia and America building up their arms and so on and fighting all these kind of erm secret battles . |
| 9 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 10 | They know less about and watch less television than anyone else in the country . ’ |
| 11 | Quantum mechanics implies that the whole of space is filled with pairs of ‘ virtual ’ particles and antiparticles that are constantly materializing in pairs , separating , and then coming together again and annihilating each other . |
| 12 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 13 | I know a lot of us have done terms for a long term , but to be together closely and observe each other reacting and doing things it gives a better idea of how people think , being in this together . |
| 14 | She turned away impatiently and opened another case . |
| 15 | I wished I 'd of stayed a bit longer now and had another look around |
| 16 | One is Andrew goes away now and readjusts these figures , t to put the graduates , some of the graduates into the fee earning er column . |
| 17 | Dorothy had glared phlegmatically around and said that would teach the silly little wretch to wander off on his own ; it was Helen who had rushed to and fro and eventually found Edward , white with shock , cowering beside one of the tills . |
| 18 | You should gather seeds from the best plants only , if possible selecting and marking them early on and removing all but one or two of the first , fattest seed-heads to conserve as much energy as possible . |
| 19 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 20 | A simple propagator will help you raise seedlings more easily and achieve more success with cuttings . |
| 21 | He waved her to sit back more comfortably and took another of the gilt-and-velvet chairs , dragging it closer to hers . |
| 22 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 23 | You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume . |
| 24 | Boilers and hot water systems will operate more efficiently and use less fuel ( remember , 3mm scale results in 20 per cent more fuel usage ) . |
| 25 | Older people need to be in hospital longer , to consult general practitioners more often and take more drugs , and to have more home-based chiropody and nursing services and more personal social services than younger people ( Social Trends 1987 ) . |
| 26 | A choreographer 's wish to exploit a particularly gifted dancer usually leads that dancer to develop more fully and to have more to give when cast in ballets by more objective choreographers . |
| 27 | This is largely because farmers on better land can stock it more heavily and attract more HLCAs , generating more capital to finance grant-aided agricultural improvements . |
| 28 | This is the real time to take up those abandoned New Year resolutions — eat less , eat more healthily and take more exercise ! |
| 29 | So far , only a handful of candidates for the TBM 700 rating have been asked to thing about it more seriously and take some refresher training elsewhere before coming back . |
| 30 | Now let's jump straight in and catch this one on the wing . |