Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The anarchic and the political , the anger and the boredom , are all active in Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic , and most especially when the survival strategies of subordination — subterfuge , lying , evasion — are aesthetically transvalued into weapons of attack , but ever working obliquely through irony , ambiguity , mimicry , and impersonation .
2 Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it .
3 What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ?
4 The Bishop of London stayed abroad for a while , and then discreetly returned and was found to be in office again , and so effectively that no one troubled to make an issue of it .
5 She put it so nicely and so firmly that no one seemed to mind too much .
6 As his hand was crushed down onto the red-hot ring again , Connelly 's body jerked convulsively and so savagely that the man holding him up was almost knocked off balance , but he stood his ground while his companion pressed down on the limb .
7 This equality is guaranteed to hold for any values of m , g and so on if the constant terms on both sides of the equality are identically equal , and if the pair of coefficients attached to each variable are identically equal .
8 Yes I erm I would like to point out that we are looking er very closely at the sales and I 've just had a report on my desk from the head of finance which is the beginning of the discussions in the management team on er the sales erm and relation of loss of sales to profit and so on and the now we , the shop is in that position we 've had time t we have more time to assess how things are working out .
9 Er facilities er exist for parking and so on and the only thing is , er I 'm talking about catering in the sense of a Saturday whether it 's here or there .
10 See it 's very very attractive , the erm stonework and so on and the slate roofs .
11 It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking .
12 If this ties again , then team captains must select another pair of representatives , and so on until the tie is broken .
13 She might repeat the procedure at another specified bank in Parish and so on until the Credit was fully utilised .
14 Her gravy does n't usually move , ’ and so on until the meal was over .
15 ACT carried back is offset as far as possible against the most recent period first and then the next most recent period , and so on until the claim is exhausted or the six year time limit is reached .
16 For example , if the search is for the string chess , h is the 3rd bit of the 26 to be set , so follow the 3rd pointer of the 10 element array to reach the ‘ h ’ node on the level below , and so on until the entire string is found , at the 2nd ‘ s ’ node , where the word flag is set .
17 As acrylic dries quickly he can then wash over , apply more light lines , wash over again and so on until the required depth is achieved
18 This header data is transferred up as detail to the next level of the hierarchical structure and so on until the whole machine is recorded .
19 Having discussed questions of how the initial task was planned and organized and how people felt about it , the experience is utilised to improve task effectiveness and member satisfaction for the next exercise , and so on until the series of tasks is completed .
20 The values of γ ( 2 ) ; and δ ( 2 ) : are then inserted into the right-hand side of equations ( 3.50 ) and so on until the method converges ; that is , until the differences between γ ( k ) ; and δ ( k ) ; and between γ ( k ) ; and δ ( k-l ) ; from iteration k to k - 1 become negligible .
21 The weight percentage retained on the coarsest sieve is plotted at the appropriate grain diameter , the sum of weight percentages retained in the two coarsest sieves is plotted at the next finer mesh , the cumulative contents of the first three sieves at the next finer mesh and so on until the entire sediment has been accounted for at 100% .
22 The second preferences of any of the candidate 's surplus votes , plus those of the candidate at the bottom of the poll , are then redistributed , and so on until the necessary number of candidates reach the quota .
23 When they had described all that they could the film was started again and they watched the next five second section , and so on until an entire film had been described .
24 I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better .
25 Four plus minus two has the same answer as four minus two and so on because the plus and minus gives you a minus .
26 The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited .
27 But a thinking participant like Socrates ( with a following in the Assembly ) found this incident difficult to stomach , and so far as the passage contains a statement of constitutional principle , it ought not to be pressed .
28 The statement of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht text is in what would be a new Article 3B of the EEC Treaty , to the effect that ‘ in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence ’ the Community should take action only if and so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can , therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community .
29 If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow .
30 As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " …
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