Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients were almost exclusively European and predominantly French and Belgian . |
| 2 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 3 | Graphically the game is top-notch , the character sprites are large and nicely detailed while movement is fluid and looks very believable . |
| 4 | By the 15th century , a steady supply of Anatolian , and perhaps Caucasian and Turkoman rugs were imported by Venetian merchants . |
| 5 | Their problem , however , is trying to reconcile national curriculum demands with their desire to offer a second modern language , three sciences and perhaps Latin and Greek . |
| 6 | Cheiranthus allionii ( Siberian wallflower ) Like ordinary wallflowers , but smaller and only yellow or orange . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , thank you , an excellent meal and only three and ninepence . ’ |
| 8 | Smaller and less variable than Desert Lark , from which readily distinguished by dark bar at tip of shorter tail . |
| 9 | I sit in front of the television and impress my girl-friend by pointing out all the faults of the players ; it is much more comfortable and less dangerous than participation , and my girl-friend thinks I am wonderful . |
| 10 | Naturally this crisp geometrical profile becomes softened and less perceptible as scoria cones grow older and are subjected to the normal processes of erosion . |
| 11 | Call louder and less shrill than Buzzard . |
| 12 | Besides , even those who argue that the answer to women 's dependency/op-pression in the home is for them to take outside jobs ( as if the sort of jobs open to most women were in any way more congenial and less exploitative than housework , except in so far as they are paid ) and put their children into publicly funded day-care centres , must surely allow that some women ( as well as men , of course ) would choose freely to look after children , otherwise how are the centres to be staffed ? |
| 13 | They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken . |
| 14 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 15 | But the public character of science is more complicated and less benign than Popper 's theory hoped ( see Chapters 7 and 8 ) . |
| 16 | This mean reversion effect became stronger in both countries as delivery approached , and this is consistent with arbitrage becoming less costly and less risky as maturity declines . |
| 17 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |
| 18 | Prevention is always more sensible and less costly than cure . |
| 19 | The relative decline of US capital ( chapter 10 ) was reflected in large balance of payments deficits as US goods became less and less competitive and war expenditures in Vietnam climbed . |
| 20 | Franco had allowed anti-French nationalism to flourish in Spanish Morocco in the first half of the 1950s , naïvely and carelessly confident that pressure for independence would not be a problem in the Spanish protectorate . |
| 21 | Public-sector unions threatened a general strike in March 1991 and held protests and demonstrations against police repression and in favour of increased wages and better social and labour conditions . |
| 22 | ‘ How convenient and extremely predictable that excuse is ! ’ he drawled . |
| 23 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 24 | For the pudding , my own weakness is a small glass of something sweet and much lighter than port which I prefer to save and have on its own or with a mince pie . |
| 25 | There were injections , X-rays and much to-ing and fro-ing . |
| 26 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 27 | Miguel spoke on the crackling phone to the hospital surgeon , and soon patient and doctor were on their way , Rosie lying , with eyes tightly closed , on a stretcher . |
| 28 | Bicker led , and after him came Ratagan and Riven , Isay and Luib , then Tagan and Rimir and finally Darmid and Corrary leading the pack mules . |
| 29 | Even so , they are uncomfortable and unpleasantly damp and dark , and the need for artificial lighting and heating can produce fumes that make the situation inconvenient . |
| 30 | That would be totally wrong and totally undemocratic and heaven help us if we ended back in the situation where we had a lady in number ten Downing Street who waved the hand bag at all and sundry without any thought at all for the democratic situation |