Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was commercially cut for reeds until the 1950s , which meant it was kept in good order but then cutting stopped and later the River Hundred was straightened because there was so much flooding at Knodishall . |
2 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |
3 | Smaller stones about four to six inches long and only an inch wide which have broken ends could easily have been used to knock limpets off rocks . |
4 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
5 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
6 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
7 | The weather is beautiful : clear , sunny and still a bit cold . |
8 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
9 | TRUE returns the value -1 and FALSE the value 0 . |
10 | A world in fact in which the stuff itself — the coins , the notes — seemed barely relevant and indeed a trifle indecent . |
11 | The envelope was about six inches by four and almost an inch thick . |
12 | The huge mountain at the far , Pakistani end of the Himalaya saw the tragic massacre of Willy Merkl 's German team in 1936 and eventually a solo first ascent by the legendary Hermann Buhl in 1953 . |
13 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |