Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I look , I half expect to see the air above the building turbulent and violent with the compressed energy of the pain and anger held there . |
| 2 | They may think that their jobs will be less secure , that they might lose the independence that they previously enjoyed , that their relationships with others will change for the worse and they might lose status , they may think the change unnecessary and they may simply fear change in itself . |
| 3 | It is ironic to see the terms of this division being renegotiated as newer technology , such as computer typesetting , makes the technical division unnecessary or redundant . |
| 4 | Much of this paper was filled with lists of the precise car allowances paid to individual officers , details of minor repairs to council property and similar routine matters ( Maud 1967 , Vol. 1:34 and 32 ) . |
| 5 | Paddy Ashdown would certainly agree with Peter Mandelson that the ‘ nudging and winking ’ during the final week of the campaign about a Lib-Lab arrangment made Labour look weak and muddled and John Major principled . |
| 6 | By now my interlocutors , who are apt to be young and sensitive souls , much perturbed by the effect that German-led interest rates have already had on their standard of living , tend to be looking a bit peaky and green about the gills . |
| 7 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 8 | Pat skin dry and moisturise with a body lotion . |
| 9 | Blot skin dry and apply plenty of moisturiser . |
| 10 | The fur made my skin dry and I began to feel better . |
| 11 | Her hands slid up to his shoulders , his skin dry and hot to her touch . |
| 12 | Choosing healthier versions of food such as lower-fat sausages or chips is another way of making meals a bit healthier and how you cook food makes a difference too — grilling or baking instead of roasting or frying , for instance . |
| 13 | It is a little bit weak and it lacks a bit of punch . |
| 14 | The Revenue seem to have an option to apply Cases III , IV and V or Case VI but the author is aware of cases where the Revenue have permitted the preceding year basis to apply under Cases III , IV and V although the Revenue could have assessed under Case VI . |
| 15 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 16 | Clearly it can not be the case that and that if 4 is non-zero , and so condition ( iii ) above can not hold in both environments . |
| 17 | It made racism respectable and clinical by institutionalising it . |
| 18 | A minute later the red Jaguar slides up with my briefcase intact and the girl smiling prettily . |
| 19 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a path , ’ Carrie 's daughter said , ‘ A bit slippy and slimy , but we could go down if you like ’ . |
| 21 | His ears might have been a bit wonky but his nose was working just fine . |
| 22 | Yeah Carrie went and as she , as she left he patted her on the bum which is , you know , a bit friendly and I said to Jess well look , put it this way , cos she 's really , she flirts a lot |
| 23 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 24 | say she 's a bit depressed and say |
| 25 | ‘ I had hoped to make it this week , but it is still a bit sore and , with the British Open in mind , I felt another few days rest would be a safer precaution . ’ |
| 26 | He can be a bit lazy but ability-wise he is in a class of his own . |
| 27 | Now his club 's tighthead , he has gone out of this way to improve his scrummaging technique with specialist advice from among others , his boss , Sandy Carmichael , the 50-times capped Scottish and Lions tighthead Iain Milne ( ‘ immensely helpful ’ ) and Jim Telfer ( ‘ he is just the kind of coach I need because I can be a bit lazy and the fact that he just keeps at you all the time was very good for me ’ ) . |
| 28 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 29 | It 's a bit , anyway it 's a bit dear but ooh it was lovely . |
| 30 | She is still a bit shy but she 's tremendous with me . |