Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uplifts of 1–2 km can apparently be produced if the crust experiences very little or no extension and the lithosphere is stretched by a large amount ( Box 4.2 ) . |
| 2 | The place for a quiet picnic on a Bank Holiday is now in the centre of the City of London — few people , little or no traffic and an ample supply of peace and quiet . |
| 3 | It is therefore necessary to depart quite sharply from conventional postwar wisdom about the pre-war years — a wisdom that rests on the twin myths of firm punishment in the courts , going hand-in-hand with little or no crime and an untroubled youth — and to state a rather different version of events . |
| 4 | Inevitably the first two months of 1951–52 promised little or no improvement and the directors decided that Dawes and his colleague would have to go . |
| 5 | To survive , remain active and breed in areas where there is little or no rain and no open water at all , a creature must have both a watertight skin and a watertight egg . |
| 6 | They are , however , quite clear that the State and the apparatus of the State , especially law , are some of the tools of the dominant class , and are therefore primes examples of false consciousness . |
| 7 | It should be clear that the correctness and the effect of some expressions can not only be judged within the sentence , but must be judged in connection with other sentences in the discourse as well . |
| 8 | He quoted many authorities , both in the USA and GB who made it clear that the viewing and the funeral ceremonies are extremely important in bringing the bereaved to a state of acceptance and eventual recovery . |
| 9 | The authorities took no immediate action to implement the arrest warrants , and Attorney General Carlos Gustavo Arrieta stated on May 22 that the Constitution and the law could not be used as " instruments to promote retaliations which neither society nor its institutions needed " . |
| 10 | Er , Council are also agreeing to the road and a District Council are in agreement with the road , albeit that they have asked for the road to follow more closely to the erm but I believe it is acceptable that the road and the line of the road in general principle is . |
| 11 | If we take a view about fairness , then the funding of capital schemes is fairer if the charge and the cost of the those schemes is spread over the life of the the asset . |
| 12 | Paulstock was n't architecturally distinguished but the church and the stone-faced cottages looked their best in the thin winter sunshine , like a faded watercolour by a gifted maiden aunt . |
| 13 | That is wrong because the Bill and the Local Government Bill were published before that . |
| 14 | As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe . |
| 15 | Before recording any detailed information on the lesson , it is important to ensure that the classroom atmosphere is such that the material and the teaching it supports are getting reasonable attention from the class . |
| 16 | It was a delight more magical than the panto and the circus had held when I was little . |
| 17 | The book , said Beatrice , was used like opium or cocaine by poets and painters as a ‘ defence from modern life , this very modern life of noise and advertisement which they profess to find more real than the glory and the grandeur of earlier civilizations … |
| 18 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 19 | So it is by no means impossible that the kraken and the other legendary sea monsters that are said to be able to rise from the deep and wrap ships in their tentacles , really exist . |
| 20 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 21 | After the official ceremony the party moved down to the Town Hall , and incidentally how appropriate that the Railway and the Railway Society that have always been so intimately involved with the town should hold its celebration at Bishop 's Castle 's ancient Town Hall with the mayor , district council chairman in attendance . |
| 22 | The English have ten sixty six and the Armada and the Swiss have William Tell , well what are the landmarks of Kuwaiti history ? |
| 23 | A bigger pad over the top , there 's the sling and towards your casualty and place it on the body down the straight and the elbow and the point at the same side , tuck this hand under and tuck all this underneath the arm and bring the rest of it round the back , tie it up as close to the fingers as you can and try to remember how to do a reef knot , at least always make sure it 's firm , is that alright for you ? |
| 24 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 25 | It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time . |
| 26 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 27 | ‘ She was as straight as a die and a pillar of the community . |
| 28 | In the same area , tribes such as the Zuni and the Hopi built the first apartment houses in the USA . |
| 29 | We would be grateful if the disk and the pages could be returned to the Library . |
| 30 | The method is to select at least two comparison stars , one brighter than the variable and the other fainter . |