Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was a contentious issue , since the British , French and the Dutch had every intention of returning to their former territories , not comprehending the extent to which the Japanese had forced the pace of change . |
| 32 | If the Tigers can clear other Muslim communities to the south , they will have established a safe corridor between the Serbian and the Bosnian capitals . |
| 33 | They speak a Polabian dialect of the Pomeranian group of Slav languages , closely related to Wendish ( Sorbian ) , Serbian and the vanished Slovincian dialect , all of which are/were related to Polish . |
| 34 | But the new factor is that both the Serbian and the Croatian leadership have said that they are willing in principle to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force . |
| 35 | The troubled relations between the Serbian and the majority ethnic Albanian populations in the autonomous province of Kosovo suffered a further setback in late March , after an incident on March 22 in which some 400 students and schoolchildren were rushed to hospital with symptoms thought to be consistent with poisoning . |
| 36 | The past year has been the most peculiar and the most testing in my life . |
| 37 | he was n't playing peculiar and the teacher say said something about , he was reading it out and the kids said oh what 's his name then and she said he 's names Geoff and they were all going ooh Geoff and she said , he says I think she does it on purpose |
| 38 | In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence . |
| 39 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 40 | The sky was clear and a full moon shone , lighting the landscape . |
| 41 | At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’ |
| 42 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 43 | The clouds clear and the moonlight sparkles on the snow . |
| 44 | He protests that the French-backed Intergovernmental Conference ( IGC ) to promote Delors II and III is premature when the consequences of Stage I — including next July 's abolition of French and Italian exchange controls — are far from clear and the preparatory work not done . |
| 45 | He protests that the French-backed Intergovernmental Conference ( IGC ) to promote Delors II and III is premature when the consequences of Stage I — including next July 's abolition of French and Italian exchange controls — are far from clear and the preparatory work not done . |
| 46 | One disadvantage of the change might be that the more precise moral distinctions currently incorporated within the law would become submerged within the sentencing discretion , where the signposts are less clear and the arguments less structured . |
| 47 | The air was bright and clear and the sea was almost completely flat . |
| 48 | It is more orthodox in arrangement and pedestrian in style but the subject is well covered , the explanations clear and the illustrations well drawn and captioned . |
| 49 | Still , both the oil level and temperature gauges are clear and the two main control stalks that work the wipers and lights are easy and pleasant to use . |
| 50 | Often at dawn the sky would be perfectly clear and the air had the crispness that heralds the first night frost . |
| 51 | Pulling it over to frighten it , he failed to jump clear and the pony fell on him , smashing his thigh . |
| 52 | Having made sure that the rear cross-spars are correctly located , the bridle is clear and the stand-off sockets in their right places , push the spar ends well into the leading edge vinyls . |
| 53 | The sky remained clear and the first starts of the evening were already apparent in the inky space above our heads . |
| 54 | The organisation of the contents is clear and the maps do their job , except for the one on page 96 . |
| 55 | If a rationale is used it should be before the command so that the command itself is clear and the last thing in the child 's mind . |
| 56 | The rules are quite clear and the Watford lad did n't make a meal of the challenge , ’ said Cox . |
| 57 | I came out of it and saw the window clear and the sun shining and the heavy clouds rolled back to leave a blue , washed sky . |
| 58 | The book 's structure is not always clear and the lack of index makes it difficult to pin-point where a section on , for example , challenging behaviour or services for black and ethnic minority people was located . |
| 59 | The night was clear and the sky full of stars as she walked from the comer shop in Cotton Lane along River Street , then turned left into Bacon Street . |
| 60 | Follow the old Craven Way on a frosty October morning when skies are clear and the whole of Dentdale opens below you tinged with autumn and you can keep your Grand Canyon and your Taj Mahal . |