Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit too frail and woolly for the rough and tumble of ordinary practice . |
| 2 | Crops could have been grown in it free of the manorial and village restrictions which controlled the crops which could be grown in the village fields . |
| 3 | Through its length the route is waymarked in the brown and cream livery colours of the Midland and Great Northern Railway Company . |
| 4 | Behaviour on the terraces was also thought to be deteriorating in the 1930s and crowd incidents — involving pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and occasional confrontations between spectators and the police — were exciting the same interest . |
| 5 | This trade-off may be acceptable in the military and aerospace fields , but not in the commercial field . |
| 6 | Cut off from regular feeding-points , subjected to atrocious public transport conditions , and more prone to the cold and disease , up to half of the migrants died in transit on the railways . |
| 7 | The room we had left was startlingly bright and warm after the black and silver chill of midnight out of doors . |
| 8 | The United States , for example , made its claim against France , not Morocco , which is indicative of the paternalistic and dependency aspect of the arrangement . |
| 9 | Generalisation is therefore not easy , and its value is limited , even if we confine it — as we must — to the relatively developed countries as distinct from the backward , to the urban working classes as distinct from the agrarian and peasant sectors . |
| 10 | They react repeatedly from the emotional life of inner reality which is immature , and not in ways appropriate to the conscious and adult appreciation of outer reality ’ |
| 11 | We are intensely conscious of the environmental and animal welfare issues in that one place . |
| 12 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 13 | It 's believed that stress can actually depress the immune system , leaving us pretty to every cold and bout of flu , and also to more serious complaints . |
| 14 | Schluchsee is also a spa town complete with the medicinal and mud baths so popular with our European counterparts . |
| 15 | Thus entries for , say , the year 1680 will not end at 31 December but continue through January , February and most of March 1681 ; sometimes they will be written as 1680/1 for the period between 1 January and 25 March , and it is as well for the local and family historian to adopt that convention or else he will get in a hopeless muddle . |
| 16 | The four-door 600 is stylish from the outside and well-groomed around the cabin , though I did n't care all that much for the light coloured fascia trim the company expects to be popular . |
| 17 | The private sector tends not to be involved very much yet in planning they tend to be involved in the reactive and service delivery role . |
| 18 | Will my right hon. Friend and others involved in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office accept congratulations on the patience with which that huge problem has been tackled ? |
| 19 | But the Wallabies , despite a shattering tour schedule and absent stars , were the better side , more cohesive in the loose and iron in defence , despite David Campese 's moments of wonderful madness . |
| 20 | Again this assumption is rather gross as the social and health care needs of the two age groups are rather different and the costs of supporting these two age groups are also very different . |
| 21 | This political role has perhaps become more important as the economic and employment claims originally made for these new strategies fail to be met . |
| 22 | In a sense , the social worker is responsible for the emotional and material well-being of the patient . |
| 23 | He was altogether too dignified and courteous for the rough and tumble of politics , was not a good debater , and left after less than eighteen months . |
| 24 | Traditionally , governmental audit has been concerned with the financial and regularity audit . |
| 25 | No constitution is ever safe above the rough and tumble of political life . |
| 26 | The main problem with the ‘ object ’ dimension arises when one moves beyond the biological to the social and human . |
| 27 | She gained a few necessary pounds in weight too , and it was all due to the quiet and calm of the house , Marguerite 's soothing presence and an entirely unexpected sense of peace and belonging . |
| 28 | For some children , this clinginess is just a phase , which will disappear when she gets more used to the rough and tumble of the other children . |
| 29 | Labour planned to ensure a nursery place was available for every three and four-year-old whose parents wanted it . |
| 30 | It is essential for the local and family historian to grasp this basic demographic information and to understand its profound consequences for the nature of English society . |