Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing a man 's sweater back to front , and under her hair — cut high and short now at the back — there was a triangle of white skin as soft and fresh as a newly broken bread-roll . |
| 2 | The counsellor needs to be aware of the wishes and expectations of both old and young alike about the nature of the caring role within the family , and this is particularly so when families live separately . |
| 3 | I think in terms of our our first duty to protect the public by keeping offenders locked up securely , yes by and large we do a good job and that , by keeping good order in prisons we do a good job generally speaking incidence are very few and far between after the mid eighties , things have settled down considerably . |
| 4 | St Jude 's Square lay before her , level and familiar , flanked by its old taverns and the graceful iron railings of St Jude 's churchyard where Luke still often waited for her ; the square crowded and ebullient today with the stalls for the Friday market , with traders and dealers and pedlars of fancy braids and buttons , fans , feathers , bright little birds in cages , beads , sequins , second-hand dresses that could be unpicked and made over , second-hand bonnets that could be remodelled , old belts that sometimes had decent buckles , sugar sticks the colour of rubies and emeralds that would be a treat for Liam . |
| 5 | That area was dark and gloomy even in the daytime , with doors leading to permanently locked rooms , padlocked cupboards and deep curtained alcoves . |
| 6 | Testators normally began their will by committing their soul to Almighty God and asking to be buried in the local churchyard ( or if they were rich and important enough within the church itself ) . |
| 7 | In fact this vision of pop is as fictional and irrelevant today as the indie notion of ‘ perfect pop ’ ( an airy idyll of sixties ' byrdsong ) , Today 's pop is soulful , concerned with banishing inhuman traces , yearning for a lost passion and integrity . |
| 8 | They stopped outside the tall grey house in Hampstead , made subtle and mysterious today by the autumn mists ; the garden , where laurels grew with a lawn beyond , was wreathed in evanescent white . |
| 9 | And it is necessary to fly low and slow directly over the enemy to spray him . |
| 10 | The trades council movement is alive and well all over the country . |
| 11 | Zen smiled too , but privately he heard Gilberto Nieddu 's voice again , the Sardinian accent strong and clear-cut even over the bad line from Rome . |
| 12 | In addition , the bands detected are rather broad and heterogenous especially for the smallest fragments from Mbo I or Alu I digests . |
| 13 | The action is smooth and buzz-free all over the fingerboard , but even without the humungous strings and the heavy action this is still a pretty beefy-feeling beast — definitely not a Strat for the lily-fingered . |
| 14 | Sprinkle in the sugar and beat the mixture until it is white and stiff enough for the whisk to leave a trail . |
| 15 | But the nature and being of Christ are not made obvious and clear-cut even in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 16 | Coupled with the Phantom 's one-piece maple neck , with the same radius as the Teardrop and a low action with wide string spacing , the feel is comfortable and friendly right up the neck , and barre chords above the twelfth fret are no trouble at all . |
| 17 | The initial interview with an MD seven years my junior was largely comfortable and amicable apart from the minor irritant when he asked if I thought I could relate to young people in the office . |
| 18 | This sudden and violent less of the abbey , its Abbot and three of its Brethren is perhaps the cause of the locally reported transmutations and the essence of the profoundly poignant atmosphere commented upon by so many visitors so the site — that overwhelming peace , tinged with a hint of sadness . |
| 19 | The Assembly , on the other hand , has been more adventurous and imaginative almost from the outset . |
| 20 | The grieving family are very much in the vicar 's care as to how they can have a funeral service that is meaningful and relevant both to the person who has died and to themselves . |
| 21 | Frame two , I say with tears of pride in my eyes , was a near duplicate , 51–14 , my opponent disgustedly resigning with blue , pink and black still on the table . |
| 22 | The scenery is spectacular with rugged mountains , hidden sandy beaches , tree covered hills , cool and green even in the heat of summer , groves of olive trees , vineyards full of birdsong and always in the background , the bright blue sea . |
| 23 | It was delightfully snug and companionable there in the firelight , with the roar of the seas outside muted , all draughts excluded , sufficiently warm without being too hot ; for the fireplace was no less than twelve feet wide , its lintel a massive slab of stone more than that in length , reputedly taken from a Pictish stone circle , so that the ingle was like a little open room of its own in the thickness of the walling . |
| 24 | Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects . |
| 25 | In the third division Hereford United are off to Rochdale … their one and only away in the league this season was at Darlington back in August … time for another |
| 26 | This may take several minutes , but do not be impatient otherwise the sauce will be pale and uninteresting instead of a rich dark brown colour . |
| 27 | In Minton 's paintings , Greaves recalled , there were always sudden flashes of green and mauve even in the corners of this burnt-umber coloured room . |
| 28 | The Oxford Disability Information Network is a group of information providers both statutory and voluntary together with the users of services , who come together to discuss ways of improving information provision across the country . |
| 29 | Beyond the park , in some parts of England such as East Anglia , the bulldozer rams at the old hedges , blots them out to make fields big and vacant enough for the machines of the new ranch-farming and the business-men farmers of five to ten thousand acres . |
| 30 | But in Plato 's view knowledge was paramount , skills necessarily inferior and suitable only for the lowly . |