Example sentences of "and [adj] [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paler , less streaked and shorter-legged than slightly larger Richard 's Pipit . |
| 2 | The violas , as we know , being on their C string will impart a dark and strongly characterized tone-colour to the cellos who will be playing in a very sweet and expressive though rather sombre part of their compass . |
| 3 | As time went on and Basil began showing me all of these things , it gradually came over me that it would be nice for the American people to see that English art was much more variegated and lively than just these big portraits . |
| 4 | Equally striking and individual although aesthetically remote from the Lichtenstein , Falling Figure of 1947 by Stanley William Hayter who remains one of the most under-rated figures in the realm of modern art although recognised as the father of printmaking and creator of Atelier 17 in Paris and then in New York . |
| 5 | Poor love , he was so fair-skinned he could n't tolerate much sun and Majorca was sunnier and hotter than ever this season , according to him . |
| 6 | THE Ulster Grasscourt championships will be bigger and better than ever this year . |
| 7 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 8 | The voice was slightly husky , slightly slurred , and more than slightly disturbing . |
| 9 | This survey is elegantly produced and more than just another picture book . |
| 10 | But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers . |
| 11 | Kanaan Abu Khadra was a case in point , a journalist in mandate Palestine — by all accounts a good one in a crusading and courageous if rather partisan sort of way — who founded and edited a newspaper called Al Shaab . |
| 12 | It is the fear of being abandoned — of being left helpless and alone while still alive — of burdening relatives beyond endurance — of awful pain that comes when no help is at hand . |
| 13 | Evaluation may be somewhat subjective and less than mathematically accurate , but it must be attempted if the desired cycle of planning , implementation appraisal and replanning is to achieve its object of providing even better and more relevant training within the library . ’ |
| 14 | The bullying got worse and worse until eventually one day the leader of the gang came to him and apologised for being so mean ! |
| 15 | Of the six employed women among the present forty , two were assessed as satisfied with housework , two as dissatisfied and two as very dissatisfied . |
| 16 | No matter that the poll tax bills will still arrive , bigger and nastier than ever next year and probably the year afterwards . |
| 17 | We will treat active and passive as truth-conditionally equivalent and used on the whole to refer to the same state of affairs ’ ( Weiner and Labov 1983 : 32 ) . |
| 18 | While most admit that it is difficult to draw hard and fast distinctions between constitutional types , others have actively rejected the constitutional-legal classification of states into federal and unitary as ultimately futile . |