Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was wrong , Rufus 's clothes were wrong or funny or somehow unsuitable , he smoked too much , he was too fond of wine and his whole lifestyle left much to be desired . |
| 2 | ‘ There is all the difference in the world between withholding medical treatment that 's either painful or futile and deliberately withholding food . |
| 3 | But what I , we are not prepared to do , is allow the schools that we represent to suffer , just to maintain small schools in this county , which are no longer economical or viable or educationally beneficial to the children that attend them . |
| 4 | So what do we do about those pieces of music which are effectively our own property-which are so adolescent or tuneless or rebarbative or just mediocre that we ca n't justify wasting anyone else 's time with them — but which are important to us ? |
| 5 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 6 | Probably obsessive , which can be interesting or dangerous or indescribably boring ; sometimes all three . |
| 7 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 8 | The Emperor , however , envisaged a city which was not only light and clean but also full of air . |
| 9 | What she saw amounted almost to an urge to confess ; not to any offence , but to something that was old and troubling and somehow unresolved . |
| 10 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
| 11 | She herself felt old and stiff and unspeakably weary . |
| 12 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 13 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 14 | Smith is 28 now and made his Warwickshire debut ten years ago , raw and wild but evidently gifted . |
| 15 | The ferry , en route from Oslo in Norway to Frederikshavn in Denmark , was sailing under a Bahamian flag of convenience , and survivors contended that the death toll was aggravated by the crew 's unfamiliarity with safety procedures , the large majority being Filipino and Portuguese and also new to the ship . |
| 16 | As more and more survive and are kept alive beyond the utmost limit of working life , the economic or social function of the individual provides less and less of a motive or framework for his survival ; and when we ask Why ? we find ourselves thrown back upon purpose in a sense which is neither economic nor social nor even secular . |
| 17 | I expected slippers but he was more spruce than that and clearly businesslike in the way he ran this family hotel . |
| 18 | Strict conventionalism must claim a " gap " in the law , which calls for the exercise of extralegal judicial discretion to make new law , whenever a statute is vague or ambiguous or otherwise troublesome and there is no further convention settling how it must be read . |
| 19 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 20 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |
| 21 | She did not look alarmed or bewildered or even scared . |
| 22 | Yet even the economic tensions that existed in the villages around Danzig failed to produce results that showed any real or clear-cut and intrinsically national difference in their impact on one group as opposed to another , and failed to polarise Germans and Poles in any clear-cut political or national sense . |
| 23 | Her three rotor towers were taller and wider but very similar in construction and weight to those of the Buckau , thanks to the use of a new light aluminium alloy for their mantles . |
| 24 | The Hungarian people are warm and friendly and very open to the Gospel . |
| 25 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 26 | She shrugs off her dressing-gown and slips into the little single bed beside me , warm and naked and already wet . |
| 27 | His cheek was warm and smooth and very desirable , and she gave in , unable to push him away when having him close was so much more delightful . |
| 28 | But the mere fact that he 'd left his own bed to come and check on her made her feel warm and cherished and oddly weepy . |
| 29 | At the hospital with its crowd of out-patients and wards full of in-patients he was so busy , so plagued and hassled and rushed off his feet , and the women so submissive and ignorant or merely sullen , that he forgot about principles . |
| 30 | They were honest and straightforward and jolly good stuff . |