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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The turning point was the penalty immediately after half-time and then again when we went 12–3 ahead . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | It 's the highway and as fast as we can go . ’ |
| 18 | Put yo put your foot up y it 's about time for Home and Away now so you 've got ta get that on |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've taken a bit of stick and rightly so because we 've had a bad week and had two disappointing performances . |
| 23 | This new phenomenon was n't quickly recognized in the literature and as recently as 1980 , White and Woods 's edited text ( 1980 ) , The Geographical Impact of Migration , included three lengthy index entries on rural depopulation , rural-rural migration and rural-urban migration , but nothing on rural repopulation or counterurbanization , although there were four index entries for return migration . |
| 24 | For instance , the risk of a heart attack is greatly increased by smoking and more so if combined with use of the contraceptive pill . |
| 25 | Perhaps smacking should be regarded as a last resort and even then as something of a failure in communication between parent and child . |
| 26 | Repeatedly we had cursed ourselves and our schools for allowing us to think we 'd grasped maths , physics and so on when now we could n't remember any of the important or useful things . |
| 27 | Even though today 's colours , perms and styling products are kinder than ever before , hair is still subjected to a daily assault course and more often than not , needs a little more loving care than it actually gets . |
| 28 | And we used to arrange football teams , cricket teams , during the before you went into school , playtime and very often when you came out of school . |
| 29 | We have learnt a lot from the Nicaraguan experience and as far as the woman question " is concerned , we hope to go a bit further . |
| 30 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |