Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My new friend and I had picked up two mad women , I said , and we 'd taken lots of this and that and one thing had led to another , as often happens when young people get together . |
| 2 | Now these words are as clear and unequivocal as any draftsman could reasonably make them and they can not , as a matter of ordinary English , relate to the intention of anyone other than the holder . |
| 3 | That was in the 30s and 40s and another Fairweather will be attempting to emulate those feats next week . |
| 4 | It is hardly surprising that the members of UNTCOK felt exasperated and frustrated or that acrimony occurred between certain members and the American military government . |
| 5 | The rapidly rising number of girls receiving middle and higher education , coinciding with the growth of urban bureaucratic and commercial activities , has led to a corresponding increase in the number entering clerical and professional or semi-professional employment , generally prior to marriage and temporary or permanent withdrawal from the labour force . |
| 6 | But at least he was had been — an interesting and vital and daring sort of man . |
| 7 | ‘ V-very good , ’ she managed at last , desperately aware of the way his fingers were creeping from her chin , sliding down lightly to her neck , then on towards her throat — the ghost of a touch , as light and sensual as any touch could be and all the more powerful and disturbing for that . |
| 8 | The addition of humus is of benefit to all soils , whether they are alkaline or acid , light and sandy or heavy clay . |
| 9 | The food , cooked by Shirley May herself , is fresh and wholesome and local produce such as Welsh lamb and free-range eggs are used whenever possible . |
| 10 | This gay , trivial and frequently tedious little extravaganza seemed as old and dated as last year 's calendar . ’ |
| 11 | Sabre the dog was old and ill when this picture was taken , and sadly had to be put to sleep shortly afterwards |
| 12 | All observers noted that the elections had been free and fair and that conduct had exceeded all expectations . |
| 13 | Informal consultations would continue between the four Northern Ireland parties ( Democratic Unionist Party , Social and Democratic and Labour Party , Official Ulster Unionist Party and Alliance Party ) . |
| 14 | It has offered to fund a ‘ social and cultural and ecological study of the Lough Neagh area , a sort of baseline study ’ and to fund a development project , looking at community employment and development options . |
| 15 | The weather was wet and chilly and this run underlines the standard that White is setting in the club this year . |
| 16 | She found him charming and stimulating and good company . |
| 17 | In those days , now more than 50 years ago , when I was 12 , I was as lively and active as any boy that age anywhere . |
| 18 | Initially , I think that girls would have been more afraid and bewildered when first landing on the island and would have accepted their situation less easily than the boys as girls are usually more attached to their backgrounds and less willing for change ( of this sort ) than boys . |
| 19 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 20 | In the centre , taller and broader than any man there , his greying head bare , stood Siward their leader , Kalv 's nephew . |
| 21 | This diversity is what makes arid lovers such and interesting and worthwhile range of plants to grow . |
| 22 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 23 | Many people become biologists and doctors by a reaction against things mechanical and mathematical and contrariwise engineering has been going through a phase of rejecting natural materials . |
| 24 | Lee swam underwater in a warm and dark and all-embracing ocean . |
| 25 | Another goose-like duck , varyingly grey and buff-brown , slightly larger , longer-necked and longer-legged than Ruddy Shelduck , and so looking more upstanding ; also has white shoulders instead of winy-patches and dark chocolate patches round eye and on lower breast , as well as pink bill and feet . |
| 26 | Chief call a rapid far-carrying clipped ‘ hoo-hoo-hoo ’ , less musical than Cuckoo ( p. 175 ) and less drawn-out and quavering than Tawny Owl ( p. 183 ) . |
| 27 | She felt she ought to write Sarah a very simple and sincere and official letter of thanks for not being married . |
| 28 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 29 | Both species are slimmer , broader-winged and squarer-tailed than Tawny Eagle ; tail base of Spotted broader than Lesser Spotted . |
| 30 | The Radio 1 playlist is much maligned , but it is as honest and fair as any system . |