Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard is high and varied and well worth a visit if one is in the area . |
| 2 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 3 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 4 | This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher 's style certainly contributed to the Cabinet divisions between 1979 and 1981 and again after 1987 . |
| 6 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 7 | Professor Alan Everitt 's analysis of these registers , in Ways and Means in Local History ( 1971 ) , shows that forty-five different trades and crafts were recorded between 1562 and 1601 and that this figure rose to eighty-three between 1654 and 1705 and then to 114 between 1716 and 1776 . |
| 8 | There is much less flexing both fore and aft and laterally in the Seayak than in other plastic sea kayaks . |
| 9 | It has been claimed the computer failure on October 26 and 27 and again on Wednesday led to the deaths of some patients . |
| 10 | The General and Municipal union 's white collar section ( MATSA ) has started an experimental recruitment campaign aimed not just at " non-standard " workers who are part-time and temporary but also at the self-employed . |
| 11 | But it is certainly er a body which is er recognised as responsible and indeed in er tax law and in various other ways er its promulgations and the standards that it sets are are generally regarded as acceptable but these matters of course are kept under review . |
| 12 | But these priorities have been predominantly short-term and fluctuating and often in open contradiction with the formal longer-term objectives of the railways . |
| 13 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 14 | Through informal contacts in 1971 and 1972 and formally in 1972 agreement was reached in principle to amalgamate . |
| 15 | They looked what they were : creatures , Spirits of Trees , that had emerged from the ancient Wolfwood from a long , long sleep and who were alive and alert and completely without pity towards their enemies … |
| 16 | He was tall and skinny and obviously in his early twenties , and was most noticeable for his permed and bleached hair , an unusual stylistic departure for a caddie . |
| 17 | Well one of the problems you see , i if you are perceived as one of the best , you tend to be in the top three or four or so on , you know , the , the people know who you are , but when you are perceived as being the , you know , that sort of effort you sort of find it , find it pretty difficult . |
| 18 | The second half of the century was a period of intolerance , of deepening division not only between Catholic and Protestant — though a Catholic emperor , Maximilian II , could still favour Lutherans and as late as 1583 a Catholic Archbishop of Cologne could contemplate marriage to a nun — but between Lutheran and Calvinist and even within the various religious camps . |
| 19 | UK television advertising is also regarded as more sophisticated and predictable than elsewhere in Europe , making it an appealing source of revenue . |
| 20 | The alliteration of ‘ sweet birds sang ’ is soft and harmonious and strangely at odds with the harshness of the picture painted so far . |
| 21 | The Bean family was large and noisy and much under the thumb of father Bean , Nutty 's ‘ Uncle Knacker ’ , a fierce fat man with silver hair and a red face . |
| 22 | When , after perhaps quarter of an hour , the ice was opaque and solid as ever around the sides of the refrigerator , she became impatient and tried to chip at it , first with her fingers and then , finding them painful as well as useless , with the point of a kitchen knife . |
| 23 | The two men , aged 31 and 24 and both from Liverpool , were charged late on Saturday . |
| 24 | We had a flood of cases : buildings of all types and sizes , of all styles and ages , but with one thing in common — they were disused and decaying and evidently in need of a new owner or a new use , as their present owners were being decidedly neglectful . |
| 25 | That " something " happened three hours later , when Martin , cold and tired but still with his Nikon FM2 and 300 mm lens around his neck , suddenly saw that the ship was about to explode . |
| 26 | Most human religions , from tribal to world religions , have treated woman 's body , in its gender-specific sexual functions , as impure or polluted and thus to be distanced from sacred spaces and rites dominated by males . |
| 27 | At only £49.95 it 's available in grey , black or white and well worth a second look . |
| 28 | Under Labour , between 1964 and 1970 and again between 1974 and 1979 , a total of 295 pits were shut down ; since 1979 , there have been just under 140 closures . |
| 29 | Some 60 letters written by Sir William Hillary to the Institution between 1824 and 1845 and now in the RNLI 's archives have recently been treated for preservation and placed in a presentation box — the cost being met from money raised by the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society . |
| 30 | Pop and I had never had much to do with a soldiers ' club-except for that brief time in Maymyo , which was more of a hospital than a club , but now we had to feed and house soldiers on leave , poor men who were tired and bored and away from their families . |