Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relating a question to the text of a given hexagram is often a difficult and frustratingly obscure business ; that 's why you need someone like me . |
| 2 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 3 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 4 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 5 | The upshot of this was that the forgery allegation was abandoned and wholly new lines of defence were added by amendment to Mr. Steed 's counterclaim for rectification . |
| 6 | Social factors such as class ; place of residence ; ideological background ; membership of societies ; alliances between geologists for good or bad motives ; professionalism and amateurism ; patronage ; and religion , allied themselves to personality factors such as vanity ; obstinacy ; honesty ( or the lack of it ) ; innate curiosity and intellectual capacity , to create a complex and wholly consistent scenario for the advancement of the science . |
| 7 | The government 's precipitate withdrawal led to an alcohol-inspired and wholly unsuccessful attempt by the Police Commissioner and Controller of the Bougainville State of Emergency , Paul Tohian , to mobilize the police and Army against the government [ see p. 37320 ] . |
| 8 | But it was only to avoid any tedious and wholly inconsequential explanation . |
| 9 | ( Morse admitted his willingness to listen to a little more ‘ tedious and wholly inconsequential explanation ’ . ) |
| 10 | So I soon turned away , regretting only the loss of the shiny new tenpenny piece which I had inserted into the coin box to avoid any irritating boop-boop-boop cutting in to what I had stupidly hoped would be an uplifting and wholly encouraging conversation about my work and prospects . |
| 11 | We have resisted the temptation to link up with any beauty product firm simply because we want our panel of experts to give you nothing but honest , impartial and wholly unbiased advice . |
| 12 | The effect of this regrettable and wholly arbitrary restriction is that , for a senior executive , an unfair dismissal claim may provide only a very limited redress for the losses resulting from the unjust ending of employment . |
| 13 | He has taken on possibly the most difficult directorship in the world , with unparalleled masterpieces in the huge collections , an enormous , sumptuous but dilapidated and unmodernised palace as his building , and wholly inadequate funding from the State . |
| 14 | The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender , Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns . |
| 15 | The Italian example is evidence not only of the effective and widespread use in a western democracy -of the industrial co-operative model but also of the rigorously businesslike and wholly unromantic attitude of LEGA towards it . |
| 16 | The regiment traces its history back to the Siege of Carroburg in 1865 , when it mounted a valiant and wholly successful defence of the walls in the face of a huge army led by the Count of Middenland . |
| 17 | Scholarly ink , mixed with scholarly gall , was poured forth upon this fascinating and wholly insoluble mystery . |
| 18 | Such an utterly formal , undefinable and wholly unanalysable concept of ‘ ought ’ is necessary if law is to be regarded as normative and if the positivist proposition that law may have any content is to be sustained . |
| 19 | Jay smiled from her shadow , admitting a lazy , faint and wholly delicious curl of desire . |
| 20 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 21 | When we consider justice , we stand back as politicians and invite independent courts and wholly independent juries to consider hotly contested matters . |
| 22 | That is , they involve a second and wholly different relation , a semantic or intentional relation between themselves and whatever they represent . |
| 23 | ‘ In the comparatively rare case in which such a judicial discretion falls to be exercised , there will be two distinct and wholly different issues confronting the court . |
| 24 | ( Some male artists continue to think with images of women — Anselm Kiefer 's most recent installation , in London , called ‘ Women of the Revolution ’ , expressed his own painful reckonings of loss , and his nostalgic longing for rebirth , through the names of historical female figures , from Marie-Antoinette to Théroigne de Méricourt ; he symbolised them as beds , shrouded in lead sheets , and puddled with pools — reflections of the artist 's desires in the traditional manner and wholly insensitive appropriations of lives that have barely been rescued as stories . |
| 25 | That happy and wholly characteristic confusion of fact and supposition makes his criticism as readable , at times , as an eccentric novel by a country gentleman more at ease at a hunt-ball than in a classroom , at a levée than in a seminar . |
| 26 | Doing so requires great skill , and an integrated and wholly dedicated application of the techniques we know separately as physiotherapy , occupational therapy , educational psychology , speech therapy and teaching . |
| 27 | On 11 May 1559 Knox preached his great and wholly inflammatory sermon in St John 's Kirk in Perth , producing mob riot not only in the church itself but also in the Black and Grey Friars and the Carthusian monastery , all of which were sacked . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister 's wife , Clarissa , appears in the story as an aggravating factor : ‘ He [ the PM ] rang up Clarissa , who is becoming his unofficial and wholly bad press adviser , and asked her advice . ’ |
| 29 | Among these advantages are their ability to represent partial information in an elegant way ; the inherent potential for structure sharing ; the declarative description of information flow , and a mathematically clean and computationally tractable type system with inheritance ( Bouma et al , 1988 ) . |
| 30 | The appeal of unification grammars is that they are able to combine both linguistically theoretical and computationally tractable methods for processing language . |