Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there 's me and a mate up a ladder with chain saws and that nearly all day yesterday , good fun actually . |
| 2 | I suggest not , and that most long-term core portfolios should contain them , remembering that in the short-term extra volatility can arise from currency fluctuations . |
| 3 | The turning point , the moment when the era rightly began , came during those years between America 's Sixties triumph — Neil Armstrong 's first footsteps on the Sea of Tranquillity in 1969 — and that most doleful moment of the Seventies , when the last US Marines were evacuated from the roof of the embassy in Saigon in 1975 . |
| 4 | And take comfort from these two decorating truths , confirmed by much experience : that too perfect rooms are as boring as too perfect people , and that most successful decoration is the result of successful elimination . |
| 5 | Any computer shop will tell you about the various comms packages available for your machine , though bear in mind that some can be quite difficult to set up ( and that most American software can not handle the Prestel standards ) . |
| 6 | The miscellaneous poor supported the Paris Commune , but its activists were the more skilled workers and craftsmen ; and that most marginal section of the poor-the adolescents — were under-represented among them . |
| 7 | The matter is discussed in detail in Chapter 9 , where it is suggested that the quality of stock on the shelves can only be maintained through extensive stock revision , and that most public library authorities would at present benefit from allocating at least 40% of their bookfunds to stock revision . |
| 8 | And that you know , look at the traffic very seriously and see whether it was merited or not and that maybe greater use of the mobile . |
| 9 | This is mainly because erm there are so many diverse services that might help in the erm general support and education of a special child that integration is necessary and that really one person should be keeping an eye on things , as it were . |
| 10 | We just went out for days and that really last week . |
| 11 | Tories and Labour decry each other 's failures to voters who seem to believe , against all experience , that success is their birthright , and that only political stupidity deprives them of it . |
| 12 | There is the grudging recognition that , as it stands today , the House of Lords is an indefensible anachronism and that only limited legitimacy ( and therefore power ) can attach to a second chamber whose membership is largely based on heredity and which has an overwhelming and permanent majority for the Conservative Party . |
| 13 | However , both the Turin police headquarters and the anti-terrorist squad said they knew of no particular cause for alarm and that only normal security measures had been taken . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , significant explorations were made of the types of cooperative support that could be developed , between schools and teachers from different schools , and between a variety of other educational institutions such as colleges , polytechnics , universities and that peculiarly British innovation , the teachers ' centre . |
| 15 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 16 | ‘ It may be that the Institute ought to take a stricter line in future and that more disciplinary action will be taken , ’ said Investigation Committee secretary Gordon Porter . |
| 17 | Although data relating to the seasonal distribution of runoff are limited , there are indications that post-drought recharge rates of forest soils are reduced and that more rapid flood response is characteristic of all stages of the rotation cycle when compared with non-afforested catchments ( Binns 1986 ) . |
| 18 | When you compare Quattro Pro 4 to other DOS spreadsheets , you can quickly see that there 's life in the old operating system yet , and that more graphical environment is where things are heading . |
| 19 | Oh yes when I went to Stronsay Academy first we were very much kids for the country being all this country ones and often we 'd sometimes be and said some terribly wild and woolly awfully countrified phrase you know until pride sort of came to our rescue when we we got out of it as much as ever we could . |
| 20 | The unlinked anonymous serosurvey of people attending genitourinary medicine clinics provided further data on the age specific prevalence of HIV infection and acute sexually transmitted disease among homosexual men . |
| 21 | But Rose 's looks went back to an earlier time with big , wide eyes and strong yet delicate profile . |
| 22 | ( i ) the speeding up of routines which would otherwise be too slow and impractical to be used : this is particularly significant in the area of graphics where large figures can be produced at a good speed and some reasonably large-scale movement becomes possible ( ii ) the addition of extra facilities not generally available in BASIC : for example , different forms of character input instruction , including timing , displaying a pre-stored picture ‘ instantly ’ , and automatic device initialization ( see next section ) . |
| 23 | The waterways are incredibly peaceful with a wealth of wildlife and some incredibly beautiful scenery . |
| 24 | Low coastline and some slightly boggy moorland . |
| 25 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 26 | So , on Thursday evening their production got off to a good start with its sparse but effective scenery , sympathetic lighting and some remarkably good costuming . |
| 27 | Whitley , a willowy former City banker , peppered his talk with literary bon mots and some distinctly fast verse . |
| 28 | More cups of coffee , and some rather satisfying talk about the state of Britain . |
| 29 | Champions ' Challenge prior to the Panasonic European Open at Walton Heath saw some spectacular golf and some equally spectacular scoring — not least from Nick Faldo , who aced his 6-iron tee shot at the 9th . |
| 30 | It will presumably then decline , and some presently unconsidered part of the world — perhaps Africa , or Arabia — will rise to prominence ; but for the moment there is little doubt that the Pacific era is beginning , it will reach its full flower in perhaps two or three decades , and will then enjoy or suffer the supremacy known to other oceans and regions in the decades and centuries past . |