Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently if some process , such as cracking or ‘ erosion ’ by mantle plumes , punctures the continental lithosphere as far as the crust the relatively dense mantle layer of the lithosphere could become detached and sink ( Fig. 4.8 ) . |
| 2 | to acknowledge how ‘ well run ’ the wilderness has been ( and presumably would be under the same regime in future ) and how adept their bailiffs and stalkers have been at pursuing ‘ a careful policy of highly selective culling , a scientific approach to hind and calf management . ’ |
| 3 | Richard seemed to me to have changed so much , become humourless and uncertain-tempered , a family man who grumbled because his socks were not mended and his shirts not ironed properly , so that I was slightly nervous of him and also resentful : I felt that I had become , in his eyes , so much a wife , that he would see my new involvement as a nice occupation for me , like embroidery or dressmaking . |
| 4 | He assembled , organized , and analysed a mass of authorities , both Scottish and English . |
| 5 | To some extent Labour , despite its defeat , has ceased to be a Welsh , Scottish and North of England regional party . |
| 6 | Given their less-favoured area status , Scottish and north of Scotland agriculture can hardly be said to have contributed to the problems of CAP overproduction and the related MacSharry implications . |
| 7 | Selkirk , stationing himself on the fo'castle , hailed the ship in Scottish and French . |
| 8 | Two staff — Colin McKenzie , also of Stakis Highland Lodges , and Vincent di Nozzi of the Dunblane Hydro — received 20-year service awards of a gold watch plus a gold , emerald and diamond pin . |
| 9 | This autumn there is an envelope clutch with handstrap in rich colours of ruby , emerald and sapphire . |
| 10 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 11 | Southwards , the gentle hills of Hoy crowd the horizon ; northwards lies Loch of Stenness , bobbed white with graceful mute swans , shores edged emerald and gold with seaweed . |
| 12 | Richard Hirst , personnel manager for marine and yacht , and receptionist/telephonist Jean Heron , were named fittest people on site after employees were screened by the local health authority . |
| 13 | Through its Export Division , Courtaulds Coatings ( New Zealand ) covers most of the Pacific islands of Polynesia , Melanesia and Micronesia , where a large proportion of its sales are for marine and yacht paints |
| 14 | Replace separate marine and yacht , protective and industrial coatings businesses with one integrated operation . |
| 15 | The plan now is to rationalise production on sites such as Felling , in the UK ( making marine and yacht coatings for the whole of Europe ) , Gonfreville , in France ( packaging coatings ) , Angered , in Sweden ( protective coatings ) and others . |
| 16 | Also appointed commercial director , Coatings Europe , and head of Marine and Yacht worldwide . |
| 17 | , chief executive , Coatings Central Europe , with responsibility for the European marine and yacht markets . |
| 18 | COURTAULDS is buying a Spanish marine and yacht coatings business in a move to strengthen its hand in southern Europe . |
| 19 | , chief executive of Courtaulds Marine and Yacht Coatings ( Europe ) , said the deal reflected Courtaulds ' desire ‘ to complete its European network of operations and have a direct involvement in this important European market . ’ |
| 20 | Introduced by Cromadex , the classes are open to Protective Coatings and Marine and Yacht employees who work in the same building . |
| 21 | Time- asymmetry thus implies that while the terrain was undergoing upheaval new types of animal arose through a feedback process , because they needed the land for further food , and because the waxing and waning ice-ages together with ( or as a result of ) the early breakup and reformation of the continents often had major and fatal consequences for marine and land faunas . |
| 22 | He was certainly not the man for the various blue-blood , hard-man , gangsterish marine and commando outfits that he used every social connection to wangle his way into . |
| 23 | The interpretation of the sequence of events involved in the aggradation is one in which the geomorphologist has usually insufficient specialised knowledge , as the phases of marine and river aggradation are represented by different types of alluvium with differing fossil contents . |
| 24 | Yet the base levels derived from them are not very different from the base levels derived from the study of marine and river terraces . |
| 25 | Although Hamilton Oil 's exploration rig Sonat Arcade Frontier departed from the area off Bardsey shortly after Christmas , it has left in its wake a substantial lobby of conservationists , environmental activists and supporters which views the prospect of large scale industrial development as posing a serious threat , particularly to protected species such as the bottle-nose dolphin and other marine and bird life . |
| 26 | Income trust is considered the safest , growth is a bit more risky and opportunity the chanciest . |
| 27 | It was decided not to try to smuggle Hess out on the courier run , although the idea of making him do a parachute drop at his age seemed risky and wrong-headed to the Englishman , if not malicious . |
| 28 | Costs proved horrendous and design implications frightening ; plans for Piccadilly Circus foundered in the 1960s with continuing uncertainty about estimates of anticipated traffic flows , The major cities engaged in a series of land use transportation studies , but pragmatism prevailed , with interest shown in opportunities offered by new transport technology such as new fixed-track systems . |
| 29 | References to Bergson , Ribot , and Durkheim plunged Eliot once more into his earlier concerns , offering him academic confirmation of his own stress on the poet 's combining civilized and primitive . |
| 30 | She put the receiver down quickly as if to stop me from asking anything else about her illness , and it reminded me sharply of my Aunt Viv , bright , spirited and horse mad to the end . |