Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or the black and the cerise and all the jacquards |
| 2 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 3 | If you do not wear an available seat belt , you are liable to a fixed penalty or a fine if the case goes to court . |
| 4 | As the Opposition believe that taxes , particularly local taxes , should be based on ability to pay , is it not absolutely scandalous that they suggest that the elderly and the single , whatever house they live in , should have to pay more than those with the ability to pay and are not willing to grant a discount ? |
| 5 | It may make us unhappy , but it insists that the mechanical and the material need n't be in charge . |
| 6 | The idea is to drop the notion that the handicapped and the non-handicapped are separate groups , whilst still acknowledging that certain children , possibly a fifth of all children educated , may require some form of special education . |
| 7 | But what has been said so far , that the flipping and the circumstance including it were required for the wipers ' starting to work , is consistent with the cause existing without that effect . |
| 8 | Given that we do indeed believe that the flipping and the starting each occurred , it is also true , and would certainly be more natural to say , that since the wipers started to work , the switch was flipped . |
| 9 | Is n't it that the unconscious and the ego comes through |
| 10 | Of course , one major problem is ensuring that the experimental and the control groups are as alike as possible in all relevant respects . |
| 11 | As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves . |
| 12 | This is usually because the vision in one of her eyes is less good than the other and the brain has ‘ switched off ’ this eye , letting the better one do all the work . |
| 13 | One shoe seemed to be wetter than the other and the strap was working loose , so , leaning against the ledge of the shop window , she took it off to have a look at it . |
| 14 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |
| 15 | Even then , it was not free from disaster , and the central and the south-west towers collapsed in a storm of 1210 and had to be rebuilt . |
| 16 | Similarly , the inventor must be careful when discussing his invention with potential manufacturers and the like and the law of confidence is very important at this stage . |
| 17 | Tom did not much like the long train journey through Harrow and Northwood and Wembley down to Baker Street , and the changing and the waiting . |
| 18 | The charter party is the document made between the merchant and the bourgeois or the owner of the ship to make a voyage … |
| 19 | The Greek myths , war and peace and the great and the good . |
| 20 | The Greater Pilton area has particular problems relating to children and the elderly where the casualty rates per head of population are over twice those for Lothian Region as a whole ( Table 29 refers ) . |
| 21 | And the long and the short of it I 'm afraid is , your mother 's gone . ’ |
| 22 | The black and the black and the black . |
| 23 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
| 24 | Only three weeks ago , Benidorm 's public prosecutor demanded a year 's imprisonment and a fine if the MP were to be convicted on a charge of obstructing the police . |
| 25 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
| 26 | I know the perfection of it all , but the ideal and the reality rarely match . |
| 27 | We pointed out earlier that such a proposal can not be accepted for the prenominal case because the prenominal and the clause structures are far from equivalent ; they admit different ranges of adjective , and the relation of the adjective to the head noun is different in the two cases . |
| 28 | European powers claimed monopoly rights over the trade of their colonies for centuries to come , though other Europeans defied these claims whenever possible , but nobody launched such world-wide claims as the Spanish and the Portuguese , and the Spanish claims became even more all-embracing when Philip II of Spain secured the crown of Portugal for himself in 1580 . |