Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nightmare of conductive education is unachievable because nowhere in human history have the different been turned into the normal and neither medical science nor other rehabilitative techniques or educational Interventions can assist in this process . |
| 2 | Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street . |
| 3 | In the owner-occupied and privately rented housing sectors old people do not often have the means or the energy to make use of improvement grants . |
| 4 | ‘ We can not rely on virtue ; it is weak and equivocal , or hidden and unknown ; … we must thus take as our starting-point only the possible and even probable abuse of power , ’ wrote another two generations later . |
| 5 | This no doubt explains why historians writing about Scotland in Mary 's minority have tended to sound more shocked about the activities of the Scottish nobility than historians of other contemporary societies , and find it harder to reconcile the idea of ideological commitment with changes of the political and even religious heart produced by additions to the pocket . |
| 6 | To refer once again to the unpredicted and possibly counter-productive side effects of the legal reform movement , the effect on the ‘ rules ’ question has been at most unfortunate in the eyes of many basic grade staff . |
| 7 | Linking them together is one common elected purpose — the alluring and sometimes desperate hunt for a hidden hoard of holy relics . |
| 8 | The extensive and widely approved report from Lord Justice Woolf said nothing about introducing an offence of prison mutiny . |
| 9 | They become the parent , the patient the helpless and often frightened child . |
| 10 | The success of this greatly appreciated service must in a great measure be due to the pleasant and most helpful personality of the librarian . |
| 11 | The extent of the childlike and almost filial loyalty felt by the ordinary man everywhere towards his ruler , the great fund of emotion of this sort upon which a monarch could still draw , are clearly seen in France in the crisis of 1789 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The mutilated and partly decompossed body was found on the 16th of July , on a rubbish dump near Lisbon and police there are 90 percent sure it 's the body of Mr Christensen . |
| 14 | Search can be made by post ( see explanatory leaflet published by the Registrar of Companies ) , by personal attendance or ( the preferable and more common method ) through your law agent . |
| 15 | Although the research reviewed below indicates some of the approaches made to these problems many difficulties still remain , partly because of the rich and sometimes ambiguous nature of art itself but also because of the value that is placed upon the validity of individual response in these areas . |
| 16 | The mellifluous and mysteriously ventriloquial call of the cuckoo is a sign that spring has arrived . |
| 17 | Secondly , the provision of subways and footbridges should be avoided where possible , for they are often ignored by pedestrians who would rather dodge through the cars than climb to bridge level or expose themselves to the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous environment of a subway . |
| 18 | Yet , in the cultural and specifically academic world within which Lyons is making claims for ‘ objectivity ’ , this is what the term is taken to imply . |
| 19 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 20 | Warm , loving and consistent discipline , in which reasons are given ( when the child can understand them ) , is thought to produce the rational sort of ‘ obedience ’ rather than the mindless and emotionally dependent following of orders . |
| 21 | And it is the same logic which attributes those few out of the 120,000 officers who pursue schemes designed to accelerate promotion with the derisory and metaphorically ephemeral classification of ‘ high-flyers ’ or ‘ butterfly boys ’ . |
| 22 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 23 | Speeding home to Maidenhead on his Lambretta he brooded on the exciting and slightly scary world of West Coast direct action , radicalism , Beat and homosexuality . |
| 24 | For example , the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the revolts of 1968 became a media event in Europe , less so in the Americas , and were relentlessly commercially exploited , with the willing and presumably lucrative participation of many of those who had then been ( and still are ) dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist system . |
| 25 | No doubt some contemporaries of the journalists who uncovered Watergate accused them of partisan bias and lack of balance — but I doubt that any of these commentators would have drawn an analogy between this investigative reporting and the repeated and transparently mendacious press statements of the Nixon Administration . |
| 26 | This provides the opportunity to test empirically whether the theoretical and largely feminist reconceptualisation of politics is borne out by incorporating a set of activities traditionally overlooked by conventional research into political behaviour . |
| 27 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 28 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 29 | Deciding on quantities of food can be difficult but following the old and well tried method of restricting the quantity to an amount which will be snapped up in a couple of minutes works very well . |
| 30 | Only 4 miles from Blore is the old and very pretty market town of Ashbourne which boasts a cobbled square and magnificent 14th-century church . |