Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 2 | But her pouch has a muscle around its mouth which contracts like a draw-string and shuts so tightly when she goes into the water that her young are in no danger of drowning . |
| 3 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 4 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 5 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 6 | Your article on the problems of foreign-owned stockbrokers in Tokyo ( ‘ Gaijin , gaijin , gone ’ , December 22nd ) has caused considerable offence within Barclays and has quite unfairly and incorrectly singled out for attack one of our middle managers , Michael Tomalin . |
| 7 | The counsellor should try to achieve a more equitable balance by enabling the weaker individual to present feelings and needs as coherently and forcefully as possible , perhaps by clarifying and expanding on what is said . |
| 8 | You 're never very far from urban centres but the walk sidesteps and swerves as cleverly as the best Welsh fly-halves to follow a largely rural route . |
| 9 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 10 | Ramazzini described the symptoms of poisoning from the lead which was regularly used by house painters , plumbers , glaziers and potters as well as by the extremely short-lived wretches actually employed in lead works : " First their hands become palsied , then they become paralytic , spenetic , lethargic , cachectic and toothless , so that one rarely sees a potter whose face is not cadaverous and the colour of lead . " |
| 11 | The Lords does much good work , contains many wise men and women , and acts more disinterestedly than the Commons . |
| 12 | For cutting hedges by hand Sandvik 's well-balanced Professional Hedge Shear ( about £32 ) has a long reach and cuts very easily and cleanly . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 14 | As Miller puts it : ‘ Education is a source of economic growth if it is anti-traditional to the extent that it liberates and stimulates as well as informs the individual and teaches him how and why to make demands upon himself . ’ |
| 15 | By his own account , Mr Tyson is thrifty and states quite proudly that neither he or his wife Rosie are a burden on any form of social or government support . |
| 16 | The British Government is not prepared to provide a subsidy from the taxpayer and requires probably uniquely that all costs be recovered from the industry , while most Europeans have large parts of their costs met by government … |
| 17 | The study explores the priority Heads of Government have attached to publicity , and their attitudes to official secrecy and leaks as well as to the political accountability of news media . |
| 18 | Rye is very tolerant of poor , acid soils , is extremely frost-hardy and ripens much earlier than other cereals . |
| 19 | Adjustment can now come about automatically via the exchange rate , although the success of this mechanism depends upon the elasticity of demand for imports and exports as far as the current account is concerned , and on the stability of capital flows for an overall balance of payments . |
| 20 | It stays longer where you need it to stay — in the stomach — and moves more swiftly where you need it to move more swiftly , through the intestine and bowel . |
| 21 | I have nothing against thorns and prickles so long as you can admire them from a safe distance . |
| 22 | The ingratitude comes out into the open and sets as hard as marble . |
| 23 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 24 | This is undoubtedly a specialization which developed from the condition where there are many separate branchial openings as seen , for instance , in lampreys , anaspids , cephalaspids , galeaspids and thelodonts as well as in cephalochordates ( one likely sister group of craniates ) . |
| 25 | In soft cliffs erosion is very active at first and becomes progressively slower until it halts , unless the debris from the cliff is moved away so that it does not interfere with wave action at the foot of the cliff . |
| 26 | Such a subjective process is controversial by its very nature and becomes more so when changes are introduced each year that may have important consequences for the grants payable to individual local authorities . |
| 27 | The hare crouches low on the ground and remains absolutely still until the predator is nearly upon it . |
| 28 | MND kills three people a day in the UK and strikes more often than better known diseases such as multiple sclerosis . |
| 29 | It begins just north of the Mexican border and continues as far as Vancouver , sometimes winding inland , occasionally merging with the multi-laned 101 , but always providing fascinating variety . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman has listened to the debate and knows perfectly well that a vast variety of views exist within the Northern Ireland parties . |