Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people .
2 It has been variously interpreted as a military storehouse , a putative legionary principia and most recently as a forum for an embryonic civitas , to match Carlisle and the civitas Carvetiorum in the west ( see p. 54 ) .
3 About the same time , and rather surprisingly for a Tory committed to the old East India Company and one who had lost the remittance contract to the newly founded Bank of England , Herne also joined the so-called tobacco contractors .
4 And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero .
5 Go right along the road , then left beyond Castell and right again up a lane called Feidr Dwr towards Treleidir Farm .
6 Thus we might expect the instrument not to be sufficiently sensitive for these conditions and so not for a growth room .
7 So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went !
8 I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors .
9 and so on through a honeyed and insincere figure ( II.iv.41ff . ) .
10 When two 2nd Order rivers join ( not a 1st and a 2nd ) the much larger river is 3rd Order , and so on in a hierarchy of sizes .
11 But where such mutuality is non-existent ; where through some personal need ( based in earlier life and relationships ) the woman finds her greatest satisfactions in motherhood rather than in marriage ; where male inadequacy sees neglect in anything but total attention ; or where circumstances exist in which addition to the family unduly diminishes the expression of sexual love between two partners : personal and sexual dissonance is likely to arise , which will lead to further marital rifts , which will themselves militate against sexual happiness … and so on in a vicious spiral .
12 Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ .
13 One of the salient features about this process is a phenomenon that might be described as endogenous economies of scale : more business is attracted to contracts with low bid-ask spreads ( i.e. high liquidity ) , and that attracts more market makers and more arbitrage and speculative activity on the exchange , and this increased competition drives down bid-ask spreads and so on in a virtuous circle .
14 And so far for a while , we did . ’
15 It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’
16 And you deal yourself with new recruits and so forth as a sort of P R man , you you deal with new recruits ?
17 And that can detect erm tumours , body defects and so forth in a , in a non-destructive way if I could put it that way .
18 Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC .
19 Perhaps partly as a result of this and perhaps partly as a result of the government 's view that regional aid should be more immediately directed towards assisting business skills and enterprise within smaller companies , a further major review of regional policy was published in 1988 ( DTI , 1988 ) .
20 My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way .
21 It was meant as a welcome , as a shout of pleasure that we , too , were finally don — and perhaps also as a salute to a great day on the hill shared by all of us .
22 Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises .
23 Similarly , he celebrates the great house at Allington , which is early Stuart and built next to the road , with the comment : ‘ To be near the village , so as in some way to afford comfort , protection , and patronage , and perhaps also with a view to the pleasantness of neighbourhood for its own inmates , seemed to be the object of a gentleman when building his house in the old days . ’
24 But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so .
25 Secondly , there is their general ability , inferred from the class and source ( i.e. institution ) of their degree , and perhaps also from A level grades .
26 Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) .
27 The worst episode of foul play was perpetrated by Southland lock Mark Tinnock , whose feet went up and down repeatedly in a tap-dancing motion on Lions ' flanker Richard Webster during a ruck .
28 I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone .
29 Running upstairs to the sitting-room window , he was in time to see her cross the road , staring up and down vaguely like a blind person .
30 Focusing on the novelty of Japanese inventory control can however divert attention from the fact that kanban is ‘ primarily a method of achieving process change and only secondarily as a method for controlling the flow of materials ’ ( Lee , Sang and Schwendinan 1982 p. 149 ) .
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