Example sentences of "of [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 12,000 American troops in Panama remained on the highest state of alert and largely confined to their bases . |
| 2 | It will be remembered for contemporary art 's declining audience , with many exhibitions attracting very little interest , and for the closure of noted and less established galleries . |
| 3 | Making sense of persistent and therefore worrying disobedience can be made as simple as ABC . |
| 4 | The most senior post is usually principal lecturer ( though some polytechnics have professors ) ; the other posts are senior lecturer , lecturer grade II and lecturer grade I. The ratio of more-senior to more junior posts allowed in a college depends on the proportions of advanced and less advanced courses it teaches . |
| 5 | This seems very improbable , though it would have been consistent with his character to reject an organized challenge to the social order but to appreciate and even think of emulating and thereby vanquishing a personal one . |
| 6 | For , as we shall see , the topic we are about to review has many different strands , having been the subject of extensive and increasingly systematic enquiry from several different points of view that have taken it well beyond the realm of intuitive speculation from which it began . |
| 7 | Baldwin would go to the Ministry of Labour and there meet both the unions and the owners . |
| 8 | For France , it was a time of economic and even incipient military crisis . |
| 9 | The " Peace Ballot " had shown considerable support for the use of economic and even military sanctions against an aggressor and this popular attitude was reflected in the policy adopted by the Trades Union Congress and the dominant block of union officials within the Labour Party . |
| 10 | The growing international importance of economic and particularly commercial forces now influenced diplomacy in a number of ways . |
| 11 | So I mean do think that perhaps you still got a lot , a bit of unnecessary and indeed and we er will not . |
| 12 | Players with scores of 79 and better qualified automatically to join exempt players Craig Kilgour , Dareen McGee and Adrian Green in the championship proper which gets under way at Heworth Golf Club on June 27 ( four scores of 80 also qualified ) . |
| 13 | Wally received a Benefit at the end of 1953–54 and almost 4,000 admirers turned out to see the Palace beat a London XI by six goals to five ! |
| 14 | The weights of the top and bottom halves are computed by obtaining pixel counts of each and then , for example , |
| 15 | It is a moving end to a moving story for the son of a Tyneside lorry driver who first began wearing his mother 's clothes at the age of eight and soon after began the inner turmoil which has caused him so much anguish . |
| 16 | Round and round they went , making figures of eight and sometimes stopping to salute their leader , the one legged soldier , Sam . |
| 17 | Most churches have six bells , some have a full octave of eight and about 90 churches , mostly cathedrals , have 12 . |
| 18 | A situation can be envisaged where a child commits an offence at the age of eight and then offends no more , but is kept subject to a supervision requirement for a number of years for his ‘ care or protection ’ . |
| 19 | when they used to put er the muck on the fields they used to put so many loads of eight and so many heaps of the well , when they pulled it out of the room they 'd pulls out the crome . |
| 20 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 21 | The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) . |
| 22 | His close rival , the Maharaja of Rewa , reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest . |
| 23 | Each species of coral has its own pattern of budding and so erects its own characteristic monument . |
| 24 | Effect of a satiating meal on the concentrations of procolipase propeptide in the serum and urine of normal and morbidly obese subjects |
| 25 | In addition , husbands tend to see their participation in domestic work very much as helping their wife rather than the assumption of definite and perhaps permanent responsibility for some domestic duties . |
| 26 | All patients with a degree of acute and potentially , reversible renal failure ( ARF and AonCRF ) had a carbamylated haemoglobin concentration below 190 g VH/g Hb ( sensitivity 100% , positive predictive value 62% for this cut-off ) . |
| 27 | Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) quotes from work with cancer patients , patients who have had a myocardial infarct , and patients who have rheumatoid arthritis ; all examples where long-term contact with health care staff is more likely than in instances of acute and more transient illness . |
| 28 | It encourages the purchase of strong and well known products and brands , and emphasises those products and services which confer status and make life as secure and predictable as possible . |
| 29 | The Unidroit convention ( for which the initiative was taken by Mussolini , thus making it older than Unesco , which at times performs a similar task ) , concerns itself with the legal aspects of stolen and illegally exported works of art . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the influence of the Societies can be clearly traced in the reform movement of 1808–9 and again , as a remote cause , in the reforms of the 1830's . |