Example sentences of "and [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had a father-in-law as cold and unfeeling as Prince Philip — not to mention a mother-in-law more concerned with protocol than emotions and a husband who prefers to talk to his plants — I 'd have had a nervous breakdown by now . |
| 2 | There was such quiet authority in his deep voice that she nodded , instinctively obeying the command , remaining stiff and unfeeling as she watched him go back inside . |
| 3 | His lips were smiling lovingly , but his eyes were hard and unfeeling as jet . |
| 4 | Hockley produced stunning eagles at the 11th and 15th as she stormed home in a five-under-par 34 . |
| 5 | Certain individuals may have overstepped the mark and still seem to imagine that you are either too insecure or emotionally confused to retaliate , but you will achieve a great deal more by remaining aloof this month , especially around the 4th and 15th when the Sun is challenged by Neptune and Saturn . |
| 6 | I 'm massaging and grooming her feet twice a day now because lying in bed is creating some roughness on her heels and the sides of her feet that could get inflamed and sore if we 're not careful . ’ |
| 7 | Jinny 's head ached and her eyes were heavy and sore as though someone had punched them . |
| 8 | They come across as the same songs although they do n't sound as huge and magnificent and lush as they do on the record . |
| 9 | The difficulty in acknowledging the possibility of harm from a method of prophylaxis that seems natural is that the potential hazard is unspecified and hypothetical whereas the potential benefit is specific . |
| 10 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |
| 11 | GINA WAS INDEED PERFECTLY NICE AND POLITE WHEN ELEANOR came to tea . |
| 12 | The band 's onstage antics are almost as tacky and see-through as the music , and one ca n't help wondering if half their rehearsal time is n't taken up with mandatory pogoing practice . |
| 13 | This description is not only more extended and specific than any one would find in Jane Austen 's novels ; it conceives of a house in a totally different way , as the foreground , not the background , of a fiction . |
| 14 | Please remember this is a District Policy which is , of necessity , more detailed and specific than is required of a strategic Structure Plan Policy . |
| 15 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 16 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 17 | Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind . |
| 18 | ( b ) Try to make each goal as clear and specific as possible . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the lawyers ' advice to anyone leaving property to a charity in their will to be as clear and specific as possible . |
| 20 | The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels . |
| 21 | Porto Santo , being smaller and lower than Madeira , has a different climate . |
| 22 | Gandalf Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Ontario has signed a letter of intent to sell the majority of its shares in Gandalf Mobile Systems Inc to Geotek Industries Inc : the Canadian communications equipment supplier will retain a minority interest in the company , which today represents 3% of its revenue ; Gandalf also says that revenues for the fourth quarter ended Aprch 31 , 1993 were slightly below expectations and a modest loss is expected for the period — strong business in the UK were moderated by a weakening of sterling against the US dollar in the fourth quarter and lower than expected revenues in continental Europe and in other international markets also hit the figures . |
| 23 | This was not observed in women receiving atenolol , whose mortality was similar to those receiving diuretic and lower than those receiving placebo . |
| 24 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 25 | If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 . |
| 26 | Further problems arose because the aisles were narrower and lower than nave or choir , and it was difficult to reconcile these variations with the use of a semi-circular arch . |
| 27 | The BrdU index obtained in this material was higher than that reported by Risio et al , and lower than that reported in other studies . |
| 28 | Be careful that you do not continue to reject fields at the same time as getting lower and lower until it is too late either to have any selection or to achieve a good approach . |
| 29 | The fear now is that banks will start to compete by driving commission rates lower and lower until they are prepared to arrange issues at break-even or worse . |
| 30 | It would droop lower and lower until it rested on her knees , then she would clasp her knees with both hands and rock herself , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , moaning , her face hidden in her skid . |