Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 2 | Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable . |
| 3 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 4 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 5 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
| 6 | The Americans love their sport and are just as fervent and passionate , but they have made their stadiums comfortable and safe and also an outing for the family . |
| 7 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 8 | And black and black and then the denim shirt . |
| 9 | The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him . |
| 10 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |
| 11 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |
| 12 | Jan Hus preached here between 1402 and 1413 and later the Bethlehem Chapel became one of the centres of the Reformation . |
| 13 | Dave is very much his own man — young and impulsive and finally the arbiter of his own convictions . |
| 14 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 15 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |
| 16 | Assays ( shown here and in Fig. 3 ) were done at effector to target cell ratios of 50:1 and 8:1 but only the results of the former are shown : lysis at the lower ratio was invariably much lower . |
| 17 | The chorus sound is sweet and clean and even the analogue distortion and overdrive , while sounding very much on the processed side , are very responsive to programming . |