Example sentences of "[det] and [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not unusual for horses to do this and more often than not it is just a tiny nick and does n't cause any problem or any pain . |
| 2 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 3 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 4 | These people are fortunately few and far between because they are extremely odd and have a way of upsetting applecarts . |
| 5 | Are sufficiently talented people as few and far between as functionalists suggest' ? |
| 6 | Third Class golfers must have been few and far between as my ticket example is only number 16 ! |
| 7 | The men gossiped as much and as scurrilously as ourselves . |
| 8 | A user may point out that an attribute is missing from an entity , or that a relationship between entities is one-to-many and not one-to-one as implied by the entity-relationship diagram . |
| 9 | We have to dig deep into records to find these and then only if they have committed a crime or some other act do they get their names recorded . |
| 10 | The professor shall lecture , or hold classes , in two at least of the three university terms and shall give at least thirty-six lectures or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms , of which not less than sixteen must be lectures . |
| 11 | The professor shall lecture , or hold classes , in two at least of the three university terms and shall give at least twenty-eight lectures or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms . |
| 12 | Tolkien could be learned and practical at once , a style common enough in Old English but ( he probably reflected ) less and less so as the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance wore on , seeing to it that ‘ education ’ meant increasingly ‘ education in Latin ’ and the creation of a distinctive literary caste . |
| 13 | Once these conditions were altered , children clearly contrasted the meanings of more and less even when their lexical knowledge was still imperfect . |
| 14 | A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met . |
| 15 | I am doing that more and more now when I am stretched and I think I am improving in that area . ’ |
| 16 | As has been pointed out , the motivations of ‘ political man ’ are not the same and not necessarily as rational as those of ‘ economic man ’ . |