Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We completed the first four Munros with relative ease , since there is little rising or dropping between peaks , and cruised along a gloriously flat section of the ridge having fantasies about lunch . |
| 2 | The agents of the Phoenix King could appear at any time and drag away the most reputable people . |
| 3 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 4 | We played and sang together , and read aloud a little of the Faerie Queene . |
| 5 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 6 | erm To take just one point out of it , much influenced by Freud , he emphasizes the enormous importance to transcend the morality of repression and self-control which leads to cruelty and obsession , and fear in the name of virtue , and to cultivate instead a much more open-minded self-knowledge . |
| 7 | So often they have to pay the price of innovations , and those who watch their activities and pick out the most promising , usually devise the most profitably and sustainable systems . |
| 8 | Marx 's theory of the major historical transitions from one type of society to another discovers their prime cause in changes in the ‘ mode of production of material life ’ , which result from the development of the forces of production and bring about a more or less rapid transformation of the ‘ entire immense superstructure ’ in a period of social revolution . |
| 9 | It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole . |
| 10 | Food served at the Beach Terrace Bar and Restaurant is excellent and made all the more enjoyable by our visitors at breakfast . |
| 11 | A very fine light green velvet — almost eau-de-Nil — was seen on a child 's coffin in the vaults at St Paul 's , Shadwell , and made all the more attractive with its gilt furniture . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't understand , ’ she said , sinking back into her chair and gathering up the hastily discarded slice of bread . |
| 13 | This changes , subtly , the colours and tones down the most garish of shades . |
| 14 | Uncle Richard resembles Edward 's Uncle Harry and has not a little of Dad Uzzell in his make-up , too . |
| 15 | So you did , and used up a little more time . |
| 16 | These memories can pop up at any time and transform even the most mundane occasion into something special . |
| 17 | Ponds of the southern and central tundra warm quickly once their ice has melted , and build up a moderately rich flora and fauna . |
| 18 | Ollie scooped out the money and found just a little short of l 5 |
| 19 | It 's designed to protect and soothe even the most sensitive male skins and prices start at £2.45 . |
| 20 | And while others are softening the mood for the Nineties , Versace has stuck resolutely to his guns , and looks all the more refreshing for it . |
| 21 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 22 | Dr Neil sat her down in a chair opposite to his , and drew out the permanently set-up board on which she had frequently seen him working out problems . |
| 23 | About ½ inch ( 1.5cm ) or a fraction more below the selected bud , make a cut about ⅛ inch ( 0.3cm ) deep and sloping downwards a little as shown in Figure 17 . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the Conservative Party itself helped set the tone for library disposals and helped not a little towards the rise of semi-literacy and , when controversy did arise , its political acceptability . |
| 25 | Reading through these lengthy reports and sifting out the very scattered references , sometimes token references , to the voluntary sector is hard work . |
| 26 | But according to Paul Holmes , Date could not return Minton 's affection and seemed always a little embarrassed to be the object of such attention . |
| 27 | This is the enthusiasts chance to wheel out their vintage and veteran motorbikes … and show off a little . |
| 28 | A man stood between these with the barrow behind him , and came down the almost precipitous slopes with the momentum of a quarter of a ton of stone lifting him off his feet for yards at a time , the exertions of keeping the load under control leaving him breathless and throbbing . |
| 29 | He was sweating and looking just a little desperate as he bent over yet again . |
| 30 | The proposed legislation also failed to commit the authorities to a definite programme of school-building and put forward an extremely unambitious curriculum . |