Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 2 | ‘ By the fifth decade of the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution had completely dislocated the traditional structure of English society , bringing riches to a few and misery to the many . |
| 3 | These are the Comyns and the Bruces who can both reckon amongst their members males of the royal blood , for each claim the throne by descent from David , Earl of Huntingdon , great-uncle of Alexander III and grandson of a former king . |
| 4 | Like most wrasse , it is known to change sex ( from female to male ) , but it is unlikely that any can function as male and female at the same time . |
| 5 | Perhaps because it is a fine example of the Flaubertian grotesque : it can not help being serious and comic at the same time . |
| 6 | Those that received pre-exposure and conditioning in the same context acquired the CR slowly ( i.e. showed latent inhibition ) ; those that experienced a change of context from exposure to conditioning learned as readily as the control subjects . |
| 7 | how can a thigh bone erm be strong and light at the same time ? , not in the bloody |
| 8 | how can the thigh bone yeah be strong and light at the same time cos it 's hollow |
| 9 | The scornful response to the latter and silence about the former soon gives the game away . |
| 10 | So were the compositions demanded for grants and privileges , particularly by James IV and V. In the same period , royal rents were increased as the crown converted its grants of land to feuferme , hereditary tenure for which its tenants paid heavily . |
| 11 | For the walk-in horses are better pack animals than llamas as they carry much more and cost about the same , but horses can not reach all the base camps . |
| 12 | It is breezy , reasonably written ( apart from a grating tendency to treat a company as both singular and plural in the same sentence ) . |
| 13 | If , however , the land were sold ( at existing use value plus a ‘ hope ’ value that planning permission might be obtained ) at £1,000 , while the full development value was £3,500 , the levy would be paid by both seller and purchaser : £200 by the former and £1,000 by the latter . |
| 14 | Livestock stocking densities are substantially higher ( 40% in 1979/80 ) in Powys than in Cantal ( though sheep predominate in the former and cattle in the latter ) . |
| 15 | Even if the observation was not consciously made , Leonard recognised the great similarities which were taking place between music and poetry ( and in art and sculpture , too ) , which went under the name of neo-classicism in the former and modernism in the latter . |
| 16 | Market demand for it has been much higher than expected and there is n't the manufacturing capacity to build both four and five-speeds for the same application . |
| 17 | No , it was a candle from the statue of the Madonna where they had met , and then he put his arms around her , each one was long enough to cradle her on its own , and pulled her against him , he was warm and firm like newly-baked loaves , and the taste of his tongue was sweet and salt at the same time . |
| 18 | Cereal-growing or hay- and silage-making in the same field year after year will obviously rob that field of humus and structure , especially if heavy-yielding crops are grown with chemical fertilizers . |