Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admitting that to someone as detached and uninterested as the man standing in front of the fireplace was going to take all the courage she had … |
| 2 | In the early stages and with a young horse the aids must be very clear and definite until the horse understands what is being asked of him and when he responds he must be rewarded with a stroke on the neck and soothing voice . |
| 3 | ‘ My life with him was short , ’ his wife said , ‘ but clear and bright as a crystal . ’ |
| 4 | The sky became as clear and grey as a mountain rock-pool . |
| 5 | Instead , he seemed more calm and normal than the rest . |
| 6 | As a result , the police force was rudimentary and inexperienced while the Belpan Defence Force was primarily a supplier of honour guards for the rare visitor of sufficient importance to warrant ceremony . |
| 7 | And most , they tend to add , are about as interesting and distinctive as the cowboy hats that the men still insist on wearing . |
| 8 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | Varying the textures within this sort of monochromatic colour scheme can be just as interesting and lively as a scheme full of more obvious contrasts . |
| 10 | This is one of the reasons why they 're already far more interesting and demanding than the wave of both American and British post-Nirvana types . |
| 11 | His reply was as light and harmless as a butterfly . |
| 12 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 13 | He is most relaxed when he is in the converted barn in Devon that is now his painting studio ; it is stone-floored and filled with light and quiet as a church . |
| 14 | An aria should sound exactly as the word describes , as light and inevitable as the air itself ; but to achieve that ! |
| 15 | For all I know he may be as fresh and innocent as the dawn 's early dew . ’ |
| 16 | Often the battle is lost , and many a seaside town has disappeared beneath the waves ( while others , such as the once-thriving port of Rye in Kent , have been left high and dry as the sea retreated ) . |
| 17 | I do n't think any woman , unless an old maid , hankers after emancipation of that sort , which seems to mean that , mounted on her bike , a girl can ride away anywhere and do anything all alone , without either male friend or chaperone , that she can guide and protect herself and be as free and easy as the wind … |
| 18 | In the event , the election was considered to have been free and orderly because the party most openly opposed to military rule , the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , won some 80 per cent of seats in the new Assembly . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd think it would make them more sane and agreeable than the norm . |
| 20 | Adolescents are going to be embarrassed and ashamed if a teacher suggests that their dialect , which is part of their identity , must be radically changed . |
| 21 | Unpleasant and smelly as the operation was , she felt a surge of exultation when she cut the thread of the last suture and surveyed her unconscious patient . |
| 22 | When a linear amorphous polymer is in the glassy state , the material is rigid and brittle because the flow units of the chain are co-operatively immobile and effectively frozen in position . |
| 23 | It is hard to think that the novelist intended the reader to find this even more gnomic and exasperating than the colleague seems to find it . |
| 24 | With different rolls being exposed to several subjects of different contrasts this is still possible with APE 100 and Rodinal if the developer is used at different dilutions . |
| 25 | Of course the environment is very much more simple and unpleasant than the environment from which you 've just come . |
| 26 | Far from it — where other people 's welfare is concerned , or the mechanics of his own achievements , he is as serious and practical as the world out there might require . |
| 27 | We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail . |
| 28 | Behind him the minister stood as straight and shadowy as a cypress tree . |
| 29 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 30 | Tests are being banned all over the US by the courts and legislatures , something that would make sense if they were as vicious and ineffectual as the press says they are . |