Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution . |
| 2 | Slowly parts of Funchal are being given a facelift , partly with tourists in mind and partly just because many of the old buildings are in danger of crumbling away . |
| 3 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 4 | and erm he would take er legal action or at least that was the idea , we hardly ever got any erm any change out of the Le Legal Department and as often as not it was written off . |
| 5 | The field of art and design education represents a very broad spectrum of study and as far as it is possible to distinguish between ‘ art ’ and ‘ design ’ the former is generally used to denote painting and sculpture and the latter is concerned with the production of graphic material , three-dimensional or textile/fashion artefacts by hand or machine processing . |
| 6 | The thresholds for small companies are increased to not more than £2.8m for turnover and not more than £1.4m for the balance sheet total , although the number of employees remains the same at an average of 50 . |
| 7 | The thresholds for medium companies are increased to not more than £11.2m for turnover and not more than £5.6m for the balance sheet total ( the number of employees also remains the same at an average of 250 ) . |
| 8 | However , the issue is not quite as simple as that-many individual sites within premier cru villages can , and do , consistently produce wines as good as the best grands crus and infinitely better than the worst . |
| 9 | ‘ The turning point was the penalty immediately after half-time and then again when we went 12–3 ahead . |
| 10 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 11 | The workhouse management committee recommended that ‘ with regard to children still in the workhouse , the older girls should be employed , when not at school , in making/mend or other useful work and as soon as practicable should be sent out as domestic servants ’ . |
| 12 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 13 | The written word always has a special sanctity and more so if it is from a contemporary source , but it needs to be examined with the same ruthless and objective scrutiny as given to the archaeological evidence . |
| 14 | It is unfortunate that the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , while expressing authorising service in a manner prescribed by the law of the foreign country , contains no provision corresponding to that in the English Rules of the Supreme Court that nothing in the Rules authorises or requires the doing in a foreign country of anything contrary to the law of that country ; the issue is referred to merely in the official commentary of the Advisory Committee and then only as affecting the chances of the recognition and enforcement in the foreign country of a judgment obtained in the United States . |
| 15 | The investigation of the most serious , the most controversial complaints is supervised by the Police Complaints Authority , a body consisting of a chairman appointed by the Queen and not more than 12 members appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 16 | Sun will tout the Classic as two-to-three times faster than a top-of-the-line Intel Corp 50MHz 80486DX machine and even faster than the anticipated 66MHz Pentium . |
| 17 | He could be quite casual in his attitude to his wife 's anxiety and more often than not failed to let her know when he was delayed . |
| 18 | Plants will be excavated , no matter how well-rooted , the only possible exception being the Java fern and only then if it 's securely attached to wood or rocks . |
| 19 | The low turnover rates may be ascribed to continuing pancreatic cell malfunction after recovery from acute alcoholic pancreatitis and suggest that the decreased amylase secretion rates are partly a consequence of impaired amylase synthesis and not simply because of loss of pancreatic tissue . |
| 20 | I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better . |
| 21 | However , after impassioned protests from Bishop John Fisher , he agreed to the less contentious formula : ‘ especial protector and as far as the law of Christ allows even supreme head . ’ |
| 22 | It 's the highway and as fast as we can go . ’ |
| 23 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 24 | Put yo put your foot up y it 's about time for Home and Away now so you 've got ta get that on |
| 25 | Time is money in the City and few people are worth an hour unless it 's over lunch and only then if you 're involved in a takeover bid . |
| 26 | At present , such guidelines require that options may not be exercised until at least five years from their date of grant and then only if over a five year period following the date of grant the Company has achieved growth in earnings per share which exceeds the growth in the Retail Prices Index by at least ten percentage points . |
| 27 | Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense . |
| 28 | I wish you two lots over there would get your act together so that people who chair the meetings were of the right calibre for a chairman and not just because it was their turn . |
| 29 | The Health and Safety Agency ( established under Article 12 ) consists of a Chairman and not less than six nor more than nine other members . |
| 30 | Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets . |