Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and often [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street . |
| 2 | They become the parent , the patient the helpless and often frightened child . |
| 3 | That Fiji won the main prize so easily led to something of an anti-climax , but that was hardly the fault of the organisers , though they were to blame for the scant and often inaccurate team information for public and press . |
| 4 | the complexity of the law enables them to discover loopholes and multiple meanings in the vague and often ambiguous wording of corporate law(s) — the pursuit of each interpretation is a further delay in the case reaching a conclusion ; |
| 5 | But that same militant masculinity has to be seen for the contradictory and often conservative force that it is . |
| 6 | This promised to replace the opaque and often arbitrary protection offered by the licensing system with a transparent set of tariffs . |
| 7 | The conceptual requirements are to be clear and exact in our use of these and subsidiary terms , and to confront and seek to resolve the many and often contentious value issues which each of them raises . |
| 8 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 9 | This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces . |
| 10 | While poets and magicians are concerned to draw attention to the anomalies that break the regularities of our day-to-day world , the strength of natural science has lain in the meticulous and often boring study of its seemingly tedious regularities . |
| 11 | For more than two years , he was chairman of the Czechoslovak parliament , overseeing the slow and often painful march to democracy . |
| 12 | The common and often spectacular adulteration of food was not seriously tackled until the Food and Drugs Act 1875 ( Burnett 1968 ) . |
| 13 | And , like any other revolution , there have been advantages and disadvantages for the unsuspecting and often vulnerable consumer . |
| 14 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |
| 15 | Unlike the mischievous and often unpleasant BOGIE , however , their appearance belies their nature for they are quite harmless , having neither claws nor teeth . |
| 16 | The chaotic and often brutal policing of the march contributed to the very problem which the RUC was supposed to control . |
| 17 | The drastic and often brutal Polonisation policy showed that the Poles had studied very carefully Prussian methods of Germanisation . |
| 18 | By contrast to the erratic and often wasteful locomotive policy , BR seemed determined to extract maximum mileage out of its EMU fleet , sometimes moving entire fleets from one line to another . |
| 19 | In the first condition individuals that breed soonest produce young at the peak of a rich and often superabundant period of food production . |
| 20 | It also suggests why ‘ interdisciplinarity ’ may occur not simply at the notional boundaries of contiguous disciplines , but as a subtle and often unpredictable flow of information and influence from one part of the model to another . |
| 21 | The most common complication is a prolonged and often uncomfortable pain which can last for weeks or even months . |
| 22 | A broad and often uneasy coalition — of medics , clerics , social purists , eugenists and some feminists — campaigned to raise the question as a matter of vital national and even imperial concern . |
| 23 | She was sent to a local predominantly majority school in Washington , and although credible from a political point of view , the move presented the impressionable girl with a confusing and often unstable lifestyle . |
| 24 | In Italy a touchy and often aggressive nationalism , a feeling , rather as in France , that a great cultural tradition was being undervalued and might be in danger , was coupled with vociferous territorial demands in the Trentino , the Adriatic and Africa . |
| 25 | A strange and often savage creature from an island in the Indian Ocean , the miraj was a large hare with yellow fur , who sported a single spiralling black horn in the centre of its forehead . |
| 26 | At a stroke , family ties were disrupted : children found themselves , at an appallingly early age , having to stand on their own two feet in a strange and often hostile environment ; parents were suddenly deprived of their offspring . |
| 27 | ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start . |
| 28 | Certainly the grave demeanour which made such an impression upon others — the " sad eyes " and the " deep , sad voice " — was lifted in the company of friends to reveal a playful and often funny man . |
| 29 | This paragraph speaks of the ‘ many distinctive gifts and talents that women offer to the Church ; ’ in it the bishops state : ‘ We believe the time if overdue for more positive attitudes about your participation in the life of the Church and we recognise with regret that you have often been permitted to play mainly a limited and often inferior part in the Church . |
| 30 | The Old World is a dangerous and often cruel place , where war , plague and the vagaries of nature can destroy whole towns and force their inhabitants to become beggars , vagabonds and brigands . |