Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the vague awareness of her assorted aches and bruises no longer had the power to keep her alert . |
| 2 | A number of other mammals and birds probably also disperse a very small proportion of the seeds , while two parrot species are the important seed predators among several mammals and birds that destroy seeds . |
| 3 | Usually the classes and groups most adversely affected by soil erosion are politically weak , disunited and spatially separated . |
| 4 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 5 | Why do train travellers and see-ers off always say the most meaningful things to each other just when the train is actually moving off , gathering speed and making them further and further apart ? |
| 6 | The distinction between felonies and misdemeanours no longer exists but there seems no reason why the rule , if it is a rule at all , should not apply wherever B 's taking is criminal . |
| 7 | Lensman Of The Moment PETER WALSH responded with a curt ‘ No Comment ’ to our reporter , but we hear that the wily scamster is considering holding an impromptu auction for fans and perverts alike so get your bids sorted out fast . |
| 8 | He showed some incredible coloured slides giving close-up detail of petal formation and patterns not often seen by the naked eye . |
| 9 | While pilot projects and research station experimental plots often attract encouraging reviews and progress reports , programmes and policies almost universally have run into serious difficulties . |
| 10 | However , as items that were merged on word-lists were commonly differentiated in conversational styles ( and speakers sometimes actually commented on that fact ) , it seems possible that some speakers may favour the flip-flop rule in casual style and the merger in word-lists . |
| 11 | But that sudden reminder of ‘ thoughts full of bitterness ’ and images too dearly loved ’ , as he expressed himself theatrically to Southey , subdued his high spirits only briefly . |
| 12 | The previous fifty years had provided so many alternative and revolutionary styles , that architects and clients alike often found themselves in a quandry as to which to go for . |
| 13 | The gastric contents were collected at 15 minute intervals for 45 minutes to determine stimulated gastric acid output , after which the nasogastric tube was removed and subjects once more emptied their bladders . |
| 14 | Despite lobbying to the point of laryngitis by a embryonic Preservation Society ( the narrow gauge Society proper was constituted in 1978 ) , they rapidly lifted rails with buildings and signals equally enthusiastically razed to the ground . |
| 15 | In the notion of sameness there are ambiguities and ambivalences only dimly noticed by few people at the time . |
| 16 | In 1988–9 , local authorities in England employed 64,000 academic staff in further education , and 26,000 in higher education ( in colleges and polytechnics now mostly removed to the PCFC sector ) . |
| 17 | Seizures of skins and animals once openly traded are becoming more frequent , and the government is being advised by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on improving its controls . |
| 18 | It is possible that although the politicians and administrators most closely involved know that the appearance of immense progressivity is a sham , they believe that this appearance will deceive others into thinking that such objectives are being achieved . |
| 19 | However , convictions for rape are hard to obtain and defendants very often plead not guilty when charged , so that the symbolic advantages of such a change might be achieved at the expense of even fewer convictions for the conduct concerned . |
| 20 | Lead is more easily reused than stone , and texts more easily effaced . ) |
| 21 | This will include various loops and sidings not normally used by passenger services . |
| 22 | Paths and tracks mostly well defined ; route-finding quite easy . |
| 23 | It begins with Banking and Finance , Advertising and the Promotion Industry and Marketing , and booksellers no longer have to apologise for ancient and/or American ESP special English titles . |
| 24 | The ghost of J. B. Watson , who cast ‘ consciousness ’ out of psychology because it was too difficult to handle , still walks and ethologists and psychologists alike often fail to see that such a borderline exists . |
| 25 | Cultural artefacts and occurrences often previously perceived on the margins of what constituted the culture — for example how a culture defined and treated insanity — were recognised as an aid in revealing a great deal about the cultural orders celebrated at a society 's centre ( e.g. the way court ceremony was enacted ) . |
| 26 | Araja took Italian opera to Russia in 1736 and Italians almost completely monopolized the imperial opera for nearly half a century while promising Russian musicians , such as Bortnyansky and Berezovsky , were sent to Italy to be trained — and had their operas produced there . |
| 27 | Evening and weekend lettings of the school hall and classrooms not only brings revenue but brings in visitors that would not normally visit the premises . |
| 28 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 29 | A good many members and officials not only said so , but acted in that manner . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Scottish athletes and officials yesterday angrily rejected as ‘ useless ’ an offer by the Scottish Commonwealth Games Council to extend the time limit to achieve the qualifying standards for New Zealand . |