Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of this regrettable and wholly arbitrary restriction is that , for a senior executive , an unfair dismissal claim may provide only a very limited redress for the losses resulting from the unjust ending of employment . |
| 2 | She refused to flinch , or back away , even though she was uneasily and acutely aware that his broad and mostly naked chest was a few dangerous inches from her own . |
| 3 | Bullbaiting was a cruel exhibition wherein the tortured and eventually demented animal was chased through the streets by specially trained dogs and gleefully cheering citizens . |
| 4 | During the film the ‘ workers ’ demands for increased wages are refused and then follow riots , battles with militia , and eventually industrial peace is restored through the efforts of a young engineer who wins his employer 's confidence and the love of the employer 's daughter' . |
| 5 | Pessimistic in the sense that is says people are basically nasty , and if society is to be possible , then nastiness has to be controlled in some way or other , and since human nature is anti-social , social order comes about against the grain of human nature as a rule , has to be imposed on human nature . |
| 6 | Well erm the er th th th the first and most horrific incidence was I think in the May , no no no it was n't May , it was when we went down to s to Cats in London which was at the end of eighty nine beginning of ninety and I went to , I went to the the doctor in June of nineteen ninety and odd things were sort of going through nineteen ninety , but it was n't until nineteen ninety one and I was off ill and it all went |
| 7 | But now the quickest and most nourishing meal is the winner . |
| 8 | Er , in addition if you were to walk into the headquarters there today , in their trophy case the largest and most prestigious trophy is the Moller trophy . |
| 9 | The third and most worrying category is critical corruption that produces non-evident errors — a maths program that produces an incorrect numerical result , a data-base manager that cross-labels data records , for example . |
| 10 | The fourth and most convincing case is Purchase v Lichfield Brewery Co ( 1915 ) 1 KB 184 . |
| 11 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 12 | Scrutiny 's earliest and most protracted campaign was against the positivism of traditional literary scholarship . |
| 13 | But the main and most pleasant surprise was the sense of camaraderie among climbers in the Alps . |
| 14 | The first and most powerful emotion was pride in what this moment meant for so many millions , and especially for their leaders , who had succeeded in making this return after 22 years of isolation conditional on the genuine opening up of cricket to all South Africans . |
| 15 | Bowers et al argue that the simplest and most effective measure is the speed hump . |
| 16 | It also needs to be backed up by simple guidelines , and supported by detailed product information : there is no question that the best and most effective advertising is based squarely in a complete understanding of the product . |
| 17 | For example , he swam across the Firth of Clyde on four occasions , and across the Firth of Forth on one occasion — perhaps his greatest and most dangerous feat was to swim across part of the often stormy Pentland Firth at the top of Scotland from John O'Groats to the island of Stroma . |
| 18 | Complete and unbroken , the wild corpse kept its tiny crouch on her plate while Mrs Geary 's finest and most secret sauce was spooned round it . |
| 19 | The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both . |
| 20 | His finest and most original writing is usually to be found in his prose , rather than his poems . |
| 21 | As a result the south is economically and politically stronger and most large industry is established there . |
| 22 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
| 23 | There are three possibilities : one is to have a repeat morning service , the second is to build a bigger building and the third and most flexible option is to plant a new church or churches . |
| 24 | Sophisticated versions may be found in a number of workshop items , particularly Kerman and Quoom , but perhaps its finest and most definitive expression is encountered in the more primitive rugs of the Bakhtiari tribe . |
| 25 | The loudest and most determined joker was a son and nephew of the house , staying in some house party for the ball . |
| 26 | Probably the best known and most convenient method is the sensory measurement of odours by dynamic ( continuous ) dilution . |
| 27 | The best and most important song is ‘ No Means No ’ , a powerful comment against date rape . |
| 28 | The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily . |
| 29 | As husbands and wives , we recognise that our first and most important ministry is to our partner , closely followed by our children . |
| 30 | The first and most important change was the general introduction of cash limits . |