Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Rue the band are one of the tightest and most cohesive units I 've seen . |
| 2 | She knew there would be tea , coffee and most other things she would need for tonight . |
| 3 | However , at the time they were the best and most modern cutters we had sailed on and we were all very proud of the fact . |
| 4 | It will be appreciated that for most kinds of work and most working organisations it is not feasible to employ specialist ergonomists . |
| 5 | By comparison with Alexander I and most eighteenth-century tsars he had been remarkably inactive beyond his frontiers . |
| 6 | Fairs and feasts have survived the centuries in an amazing variety of ways , some of which I have already written about , but at West Witton in Wensleydale there survives one of the strangest and most interesting events I have come across . |
| 7 | Really , Muggeridge was one of the worst and most transparent liars he had ever encountered . |
| 8 | You can usually tell a good Fender before you plug it in , and I 've got to say that acoustically the SRV is one of the loudest and most solid-sounding Strats I 've come across ( and in that I include non-trem Strats , which usually sound better under these conditions ) . |
| 9 | For both left and right visual fields it takes longer to reject as " illegal " , in a lexical decision task , pseudo-homophones ( letter strings that do not constitute words but sound like real words , e.g. " bloo " , " rayne " ) than letter strings that look like real words but do not sound like real words . |
| 10 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 11 | In her preoccupation with other , larger and less accessible mysteries she had been too certain of the supreme value of her endeavours to attach great value to the consequent deprivations ; but now she remembered also how Tom Horrocks had lightly berated her celibate condition while they skated with Edwin on the frozen lake . |
| 12 | The most senior post is usually principal lecturer ( though some polytechnics have professors ) ; the other posts are senior lecturer , lecturer grade II and lecturer grade I. The ratio of more-senior to more junior posts allowed in a college depends on the proportions of advanced and less advanced courses it teaches . |
| 13 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |
| 14 | The tsar was prepared , on occasion , to reproach German nobles for allowing the condition of the Estonian and Latvian peasantry to deteriorate , and in educational and especially religious affairs he sanctioned attempts to bring the Baltic provinces into line with the rest of the empire . |
| 15 | In a recent account of these groups of mammalian predator Andrews & Evans ( 1983 ) concluded that the damage to the bone of their small mammal prey was so severe that except in rare and easily recognizable cases they could not be significant agents in the accumulation of small mammal remains . |
| 16 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |
| 17 | He 'd said something to this lady and under normal circumstances he would not a she would n't have said anything |
| 18 | I loved working with Dana , and yet as time went by and we produced more and more collaborative poems I began to long to get my own poetic and personal identities back . |
| 19 | More and more these days he found gardening therapeutic . |
| 20 | These morphological changes may be interpreted functionally in dietary terms as a change to a diet with hard fruit as the main constituent , and this may be related in turn to the drier and more seasonal environments they lived in , but as there was little change in their postcranial skeletons it is likely that they retained their ancestral arboreal locomotor pattern . |
| 21 | Would you like to see sound edifying , Bible based TV programmes , including directly evangelistic ones in the place of the morally and socially destructive ones we all deplore ? |
| 22 | He agreed that she was very good natured and nearly all Rotties he saw were calm and friendly . |
| 23 | Thinking in terms of interest defined as power , we think as he does , and as disinterested observers we understand his thoughts and actions perhaps better than he , the actor on the political scene , does himself . |
| 24 | After three hours and as many rides we slid , half numb , into the Harrachov Ski Centre . |
| 25 | And now dear children You see we 're back to the children again are n't we ? |
| 26 | and do n't and particularly these days they do n't go , seem to have all that much interest in doing so do they ? |
| 27 | Nothing was confirmed until recently , and even these gigs we 've just done in South America were only a testing ground to see how Brian would feel being the lead singer and mainman in general . |
| 28 | With five and even three elements I always had one element in the centre . |
| 29 | I greatly enjoy sitting down on a Thursday evening to compile a list of all the pleasant and even unpleasant things I have to do , and then luxuriate in my sense of achievement on the following Sunday evening when every item on the list is ticked off . |
| 30 | Well in hospital , I mean the number of cards and get well cards and well good wishes I received , and offers of help from people . |