Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of the alder we have a quilted maple veneer , joined down the middle — but it 's not your usual wafer-thin , cosmetic-reasons-only veneer , since it 's a good 2mm or 3mm thick and rather cleverly bent to follow the forearm chamfering on the front . |
| 2 | He was sufficiently confused by the English way of repressing emotion to characterise kind Hearts and Coronets as characteristic of Ealing movies in being emotionally quite frozen , ’ and so fastidiously determined to stay aloof from bland commercialism that he took no interest in the horror genre ( even though his later use of the Frankenstein story in his 1982 film Britannia Hospital suggests how much of a contribution he might have made in this area ) . |
| 3 | In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required . |
| 4 | It seeks to reduce the numbers of people to whom Education Advisers relate in the area staff , gives Coordinators and their area secretaries the responsibility of organising programmes within their own Regions and finally , achieves the sort of balance between Regions and Overseas Groups we have sought and so far failed to achieve . |
| 5 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 6 | One intended to go to Gateshead college full time for a year to do five GCSEs , but was unable to get a grant or income support because she did not qualify under the 22-hour rule and so reluctantly decided to attend part time instead . |
| 7 | A special place of honour would be found for books having some close connection with an important event in history and perhaps even helped to shape it . |
| 8 | He was arrested , charged with possession of cocaine and only just missed serving a jail sentence when the court ordered him to attend a drugs rehabilitation centre . |
| 9 | A heroine of popular culture in Britain and heralded as ‘ the White Queen of Okoyong ’ , she was shy of the publicity greeting her infrequent visits to her homeland and only reluctantly agreed to lecture to raise money and consciousness for pioneer missionary work . |
| 10 | Tealtaoich stood quite still , regarding the waiting Trees and seeing that they were listening and apparently politely prepared to hear anything he had to say . |
| 11 | If these richly-endowed giants of the developing world are barely equal to the task of liberalization , Africa is much less equipped for the challenge , and much less prepared to face it . |
| 12 | The engineers were also said to have become better dressed , improved in their conduct and manners and much less given to drink : " they are decidedly better men " . |
| 13 | But he had done none of these things Instead he had kept his temper , and not even threatened to raise his hand . |
| 14 | And if they are to develop critical abilities , and to see their work in a wider perspective , that too must be built into the curriculum and not just expected to happen . |
| 15 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 16 | The innocent purchaser must have bought ( and not merely agreed to buy ) the goods . |
| 17 | As a breeding bird the Mallard is widely distributed throughout the county and not always confined to wet habitats ; breeding has been established in several downland localities , for example Rewell Wood . |
| 18 | ‘ A good example of the sort of player who should be a great beneficiary of this scheme is James Lenton — a tremendously hard worker who has struggled financially and once even had to quit to resort to coaching , ’ Lewis added . |
| 19 | Parliament reconvened at York in late January 1333 , and once again declined to offer Edward any positive support for action in Scotland . |
| 20 | If men naturally enjoy mathematical stimuli more than social stimuli then I would have thought they were at least equally well equipped to deal with the socially isolating position of working at home — and possibly better equipped to deal with everyday geometrical shapes such as vegetables , kitchen sinks and washing machines . |
| 21 | The Central Committee plenum , which met on 19–20 September 1989 , approved the Platform with minor changes and more generally sought to define the party 's line in an area in which its decisions had been inadequate and for the most part purely reactive . |
| 22 | Again , about 100 years ago chimpanzees were fed on beer and sausages and more recently made to have tea parties to amuse the visitors . |
| 23 | However , Kayley had come round quickly and probably never stopped breathing . |
| 24 | I went down on my knees carefully and as carefully turned to face the other way , south . |
| 25 | After raising his score to twenty-nine and now uniquely entitled to wear the ribbons of both the DSO and the DFC , each with two silver rosettes denoting two bars , Braham 's luck ran out over Denmark on 25 June 1944 . |
| 26 | The early wind Serenade made a showpiece for the Halle 's excellent wind section and he obtained rich and often subtly detailed playing in the tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra . |
| 27 | They are classified into steady-state and collision margins and then further subdivided according to the nature of the crust on the interacting plates , the mode of plate interaction and the type of orogen or island arc formed . |
| 28 | Queensland aborigines believe they can sing a man to death , and indeed recently managed to sing the state 's premier — a white man , a New Zealand migrant who cared little for ‘ black fellows ’ — out of office . |
| 29 | Twice more he drew back his arm and twice more failed to strike . |
| 30 | Fortunately , my spirit was less of a coward than me and quite simply refused to roll over and play dead . |