Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's pouring down with rain , bitterly cold , extremely muddy and so far only half the PA 's turned up . |
| 2 | of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels , and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough . |
| 3 | However , I am expected to maintain the image of an angling guru , and all too frequently this uncomfortable mask slips ; generally leaving me red-faced with embarrassment , furiously attempting to devise some semi-acceptable excuse for rampant stupidity or lack of skill . |
| 4 | Laura and Ross were such an outstandingly good-looking couple , and obviously so very much in love . |
| 5 | Not that this would necessarily matter in itself , but the music they 're producing is dour , grey monotonous and generally about as much fun as a dose of the clap and a tenth as infectious . |
| 6 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |
| 7 | Erm but finally , I 'm a Liberal Democrat , I 'm proud to be one , I was in the Alliance before , an S D P member it turns out , I 'm a great admirer of the present leader , Paddy Ashdown , and I think he , and all of us , have done wonders since the dismal days in late eighty seven , when our opinion poll rating was Well single figures and not even necessarily that bigger single figure . |
| 8 | I ended up with a lot of material on the pressures , conflicts and obsessions side ; and not nearly as much about the pleasures , the fun and creativity of putting looks together , the sensual side to feeling good in what you are wearing , the pleasure of dressing up , or challenging people by dressing down . |
| 9 | And not nearly as much as we used to get back in the good old days , when alien abductions were all the rage . |
| 10 | Since then , looking back on it , there had been too many children 's holidays and not nearly as many lunches with girls in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ as a man deserved . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a lovely piano , and not so very much out of tune . |
| 12 | Obviously it 'll not be done for the launch but he 's made a smart job of it it looks really smart done it in yellow , erm and really later on this week I 'm just tidying up , I 've got to go and see F I B just to make sure everything 's in place with them in the mounted section and really this time a week tomorrow it 'll be launched . |
| 13 | Yet when they started out few people in Britain had ever heard of them and even now not much is known about their ideas on marketing and how they put them into effect . |
| 14 | ( It reported in 1965 ; nothing was acted upon for about six years and even then very little was implemented . ) |
| 15 | It is so easy to forget to pay those regular bills such as the rates and mortgage , and even more so those once a year commitments like club subscriptions and insurance premiums . |
| 16 | The torygraph is full of tits — namely the people who write — especially the football correspondents and even more so those that do n't give Leeds a good write up ( see Leeds vs Arse ) . |
| 17 | It took only minutes under the hot jets to wash the last dreamy remnants of sleep away , and then once again all the previous night 's fears came rushing back . |
| 18 | And how often how much work could you get on a farm then ? |
| 19 | And how far how many have you got along there roughly ? |
| 20 | This kind of art 's often referred to as minimal art , which helps , you know , like most stables there 's a quite way of referring to stuff , and indeed very often this kind of art relates to very simple forms , which just one colour , or perhaps no colour if it 's a piece of wood for instance , or a large canvass covered with just one colour , a monochrome canvas — you referred to monochromes earlier . |
| 21 | But my only specialism is mediaeval manuscripts , and quite honestly not many of this lot are going to be particularly ecstatic about them , are they ? |
| 22 | ‘ The weather has been dreadful , 5in of rain in June and almost as much this month . |
| 23 | We often meet people who are in in their forties and fifties on er early retirement and little bit difficult to get over the message they do n't they do n't see it as retirement and yet surprisingly very few of the people who got redundancy at forty and forty five and fifty seem to be bothered about taking up other work at all that . |