Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the sequence was interrupted by a crash , an oath and an answering oath , under cover of which Amiss began to climb silently and wearily up the next staircase . |
| 2 | ‘ Come , it is not not here one moment and suddenly here the next . |
| 3 | In July 1980 a dispute at the Lenin shipyards in the Baltic port of Gdansk led to the formation of an inter-strike committee and shortly afterwards to the establishment of Solidarity , the first ( and so far the last ) genuinely self-governing trade union that has ever existed in a communist-ruled country . |
| 4 | After rising and saying his prayers , the poet should retire to his study and … engage in the study of the ancillary sciences : lexicography , metrics and so forth The second quarter of the day should be devoted to poetic composition … |
| 5 | However , it is worth noting that Sigma ( 4.7 ) , between Delta and Epsilon and in the same field with Epsilon , is one of the nearer stars , only 19 light-years away and only about a third as luminous as the Sun . |
| 6 | Norwich is the better bet because Ipswich is being redeveloped and only about a third of the space at the moment is being used for the , for shopping . |
| 7 | Just over a tenth ( 11–12 per cent ) of each used fixed-term contract workers and just over a fifth ( 22 per cent ) of each used agency workers . |
| 8 | Over 50 per cent of the little ringed plovers in the UK nest on gravel pits , as do a third of great crested grebes and just under a third of the tufted duck population . |
| 9 | There you were , come to save our pathetic little radio station , and just about the first thing you did was scoop that concert in Harare , and at the height of the cultural boycott , because you 'd emphasised our independent nature . |
| 10 | This seems to be the view of Weston , whose conclusion after an exhaustive analysis is that ‘ the threat of a strategic first strike , a tactical first strike , a second countervalue strike , and possibly also a second counterforce strike as well as most tactical second strikes ’ would fit the logic of illegality ( Weston , 1983 , p. 587 ) . |
| 11 | Also , when unc is reached , this gives the last row of R and hence also the last column , so that the eighth elements in unc can be written down , and so on . |
| 12 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 13 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 14 | Two ties may be enough for a 3ft ( 0.9m ) stem , a 4 or 5ft ( 1.2 or 1.5m ) stem will require three , and maybe even a fourth if you also need to pull in a bent stem so that it can be held straight to grow out of its misshapen state gradually . |
| 15 | And then perhaps the next u erm lot that came , perhaps you 'd get six to a unit , so you had twelve baskets , That 's the way they used to work them . |
| 16 | And then then the next and then then in geography she says right what 's your mark all sweetly . |
| 17 | Because he did a programme actually on the B B C called the ‘ Vermarkt Hour ’ , which was beamed at German troops , and then possibly the third phase was the possibly the psychological warfare . |
| 18 | The calyx ( or joined calyces ) then continue into a stalk or pedunculus of nerve fibres which ends deep in the brain by a complicated root system composed of a recurrent alpha-lobe , a beta-lobe and sometimes even a third gamma-lobe . |
| 19 | HE first , and almost certainly the last , free election in a separate East German state was a decidedly odd affair . |
| 20 | The useful form of mica is called Muscovite ( because it originally came from Russia ) and in this mica the strength of the bonds on the weak cleavage plane is nominally and very roughly a sixth of the strength of the bonds elsewhere in the crystal . |
| 21 | McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence . |
| 22 | The two speakers were the man who heads the EC Office in Edinburgh ( who spoke and did not really touch the first and certainly not the second of his two advertised subjects on the programme ) and the other one of the law partners — who was informed and effective , so it was interesting , followed by wine and superb little sandwiches and canapes . |
| 23 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 24 | I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible . |