Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social workers are often left to deal with those clients who are most difficult to engage in any treatment and most likely to relapse such as drug abusers and offenders . |
| 2 | When there has been a contravention of subsection ( 1 ) of section 89 or of any of subsections ( 1 ) to ( 6 ) of section 90 or of a provision to which subsection ( 3 ) of section 89 applies , the company and every officer of it who knowingly authorised or permitted the contravention are jointly and severally liable to compensate any person , to whom an offer should have been made under the subsection or provision , for any loss , damage costs or expenses . |
| 3 | Steel was stronger so boats could be built with thinner plates , making them lighter and so able to carry more cargo . |
| 4 | And only half have that most ubiquitous machine , the washing machine , according to a Child Poverty Group survey carried out with the Family Services Unit in 1981 . |
| 5 | The nations of the world have become less and less disposed to help each other . |
| 6 | Voluntary contributions to the ‘ poor boxes ’ in the parish churches proved less and less adequate to maintain those in need , and from time to time a tax , or rate , was levied on all the property in the parish ; the proceeds were then used by the churchwardens and by ‘ overseers of the poor ’ to support the old , the sick and orphans , to provide work for the able-bodied poor , and accommodation for the homeless . |
| 7 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |
| 8 | But as time went on , the new state , conscious of its strength and achievements , became less and less willing to accept this situation . |
| 9 | The discount houses will thus try to economize on the bills they offer to the Bank by , say , offering a higher rate of interest on money at call , and thus encouraging further such deposits from the banks . |
| 10 | Seal the bag with a wire ‘ twistit ’ to protect the female stigma which , in a day or two , will become sticky and thus ready to hold any pollen that touches . |
| 11 | Instead , data are provided directly and more timely to obviate this need . |
| 12 | And it more and more difficult to imagine any world other than the one portrayed on TV . |
| 13 | It becomes more and more difficult to master this immense complexity which the medium offers . |
| 14 | They will be maximally stressed and probably able to take little orally due to vomiting and/or impaired gastrointestinal absorption . |
| 15 | It would be wrong to conclude that either material is inferior and far wiser to use such information to your advantage when choosing drawing materials . |
| 16 | The smaller diameter tube tended to choke with shavings , but I found it cheap and well worthwhile to buy another large section suction tube . |
| 17 | This is usually referred to as the catastrophic version ; and today this has few , if any , adherents . |
| 18 | As almost 90% of papillas in FAP patients show visible enlargement or deformity suggestive of dysplasia we consider it ethical and clinically desirable to continue such histological assessment . |
| 19 | One thing just seemed to lead to another , and maybe 1 said more than I should have done . |
| 20 | And maybe able to cure more cancers . |
| 21 | If you 're working alone one way of dealing with it is for the class to look at each side in turn : they can all play the townspeople who want to join the survey team , and then all play those who do n't want the railway to come through the town . |
| 22 | But that was in an era of different attitudes when punches were swapped more freely and no one thought less of a player for standing his ground in a fracas . |
| 23 | Managers do not want to start factories , shops , or entertainments in the rural areas because there are few workers there and the old and very young have little money to spend . |
| 24 | This was just a back seat and very determined to stay that way . |
| 25 | Old enough , certainly , to brood upon things , and too young to make much sense of the sights and sounds he must have seen in this dismal little room . |
| 26 | The Congress itself was too unwieldy and too disparate to achieve any practical measure of success . |
| 27 | Suddenly in the thirties she announced that she was both too thin and too old to dance any more . |
| 28 | She stopped and bit her lip , too innocent and inexperienced to know how to override his scruples , and too embarrassed to admit that , bruised or not , she wanted his lovemaking . |
| 29 | He was too young and too distressed to make any sense , so I had no idea how much he had eaten . |
| 30 | There is evidence that the character of demand for labour is changing , and that new investment is essentially capital-intensive and therefore unable to absorb much labour . |