Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It seems natural to assume that Mecdi means that Fahreddin Acemi died in 870 , and some relatively early evidence for this date is found in two of the manuscripts of the Anonymous Chronicle ( Uruc ) . |
| 32 | The bottom rectangular picture shows a spray design , made from thalictrum leaves , forget-me-nots and grasses , with ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ red roses , hydrangeas and some very small astrantia flowers . |
| 33 | The vineyards produce table grapes and some very good wine . |
| 34 | The success of last year 's Q.T. days was shown by improved attendance figures , a livelier and more positive attitude , by those attending , and some very good feed-back . |
| 35 | What I 'm , what I 'm trying to do is , is just er highlight er paths where they are , and , and , and drawing people 's attention to er to , to rights of way in the county , er obviously a lot of people probably would n't be , maybe people that 've just moved into the area , that sort of thing , people like myself who were n't too familiar with Oxfordshire before , er those sort of people probably would n't be aware without a book like this that there were a lot of paths on their doorstep , and some very pleasant countryside as well . |
| 36 | The plain truth is that after one year , an abundance of vitriol , a little mud slinging and some very bad publicity , we 're right back where we started . |
| 37 | Most of our navigation was pure pilotage and dead reckoning over unfamiliar , sometimes hostile territory and some very bad weather . |
| 38 | The adventures usually contain puzzles that have to be solved , cryptic advice , plays on words , red herrings , and some really useful information that is only revealed when you 've asked the computer the right question , correctly phrased . |
| 39 | Let it be some dreamy boy of about seventeen with his hair cut in ‘ curtains ’ and some really nice gear , then she could show off to Sam and the others ! |
| 40 | So , in that spirit , you can put together a library from whatever source you choose — just trolling round the many Bulletin Board Systems using a fast modem can net you gigabytes of files , and some really good stuff too . |
| 41 | On the other hand , recovery of eigenvectors , though possible , is very difficult and often inaccurate , and some quite different routine ( e.g. ( 2.6.4 ) , when the eigenvalues have been found by QR ) is recommended. , |
| 42 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 43 | ‘ I suspect what Sarah Chester Fabrics needs is a very large kick up the management 's backside , and some fairly hefty streamlining of its present systems , before anyone will even contemplate healthy investment , Miss Chester . ’ |
| 44 | A more sober approach to decoration might be more in keeping with the guitar , given that the basic quality of materials is so high : a Brazilian mahogany neck , an ebony fingerboard , a Sitka spruce top with some lovely hazelling on the treble side , and some truly spectacular wood for the back and sides . |
| 45 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 46 | The fans are equipped with baseball bats and knives ; the club 's symbol , a pelican has a bomb attached to its foot , and this presumably rival supporter has had his eye gouged out . |
| 47 | He thought of the pattern of his visit so far ; the revelation of Rose McGarry 's death ; the discovery of the swan ; Jos 's warning ( had it been Jos 's strong arm holding him back in the dream ? ) ; and this most recent sign , which at the very least told him that someone had entered his room , his own sanctuary . |
| 48 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 49 | Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort . |
| 50 | Or — and this more horrible idea had been very obscurely with him for some time — how had he dared to entertain it ? — perhaps Marcus — Marcus had spoken of evil yearnings , of a crime , perhaps committed already , perhaps in a dream — No , that was unthinkable , impossible . |
| 51 | The Renaissance State consisted , at bottom , of an ever-expanding bureaucracy which , although at first a working bureaucracy , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a parasitic bureaucracy ; and this ever expanding bureaucracy was sustained on an equally expanding margin of ‘ waste ’ : ‘ waste ’ which lay between the taxes imposed on the subjects and the revenue collected by the Crown . |
| 52 | Indeed le Baker observed that ‘ few nobles died ’ , and this comparatively low mortality is almost certainly to be explained in terms of their better standard of living . |
| 53 | Because she had to provide for the Barons and for her other gentleman who was still with her she was obliged to go out daily to market and this quite ordinary transaction restored some of her spirits . |
| 54 | And this really exciting life he 's had , and you made it sound very boring . |
| 55 | They see their lives as becoming progressively more empty and meaningless , and this essentially pessimistic outlook on their lives is reflected in all that they do , or perhaps more accurately , in all that they fail to do . |
| 56 | And this very executive power is again checked and kept within bounds by the two houses , through the privilege they have of enquiring into , impeaching , and punishing the conduct ( not indeed of the King , which would destroy his constitutional independence ; but , which is more beneficial to the public ) , of his evil and pernicious counsellors . |
| 57 | And this very social visibility to the popular in Paris was registered in the city 's characteristic aesthetic modernism . |
| 58 | ‘ On behalf of the association I would like to say how much we appreciate all their hard work and this very positive support . |
| 59 | There was such a paradox between the baroque personality of Mr Williams and this extremely Carthusian background against which he lived . ’ |
| 60 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |