Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I emphasise that I do not believe that it is right to agree to measures which are damaging to the Scottish or to the British economy , and we have not done so . |
| 2 | Lutyens joined their practice as a young man and was much influenced by Peto , who was brilliant , eccentric , energetic and funny and during the later part of his life became increasingly keen on garden design . |
| 3 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 4 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 5 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 6 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 7 | There are insult-words for women who have too much sex ( slag ) and women who have too little ( pricktease ) ; women can be tasty and at the same time cunts . |
| 8 | ‘ Nevertheless , they consider that it was entirely proper and in the public interest for the Daily Mirror to mount its own investigation into drug-related crime . |
| 9 | But by the fourteenth century , contemplation had become something very different and in the second part of his book , Hilton explained to his nun what the modern , innovative Contemplation involved . |
| 10 | Take the steamer , not to Rutli direct but to the calling place round the corner of the Seelisberg cliff face , Treib ( which , by the way , is pronounced like the English word " tripe " ) . |
| 11 | Athenian work , however , dominates sixth-century vase-painting , not only by the quantity produced and exported but by the superb quality of the best . |
| 12 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 13 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 14 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 15 | The roof of the City stretched away from him like a vast field of snow , empty but for the small group of officials who were gathered , heads bowed , beside the open hatchway . |
| 16 | Siobhan 's bedroom is empty but for the pink carpet , a bed with a pink bedspread and a chest of drawers rattling vacantly from some obscure , whining wind . |
| 17 | They 're Italian , they 're 25 years old but at the same time brand new … |
| 18 | Games always result in a win-lose outcome where someone comes out on top but at the other person 's expense . |
| 19 | There are many who argue that the key to hegemonic control in any societal system lies not in the economic nor in the political sphere , but in the realm of culture and ideology . |
| 20 | The change effected by Gandhi by the use of satyāgraha , however , makes his principle more explicit and at the same time links it more closely with his concept of Truth ( Satya ) , and non-violence ( ahi sā ) . |
| 21 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |
| 22 | Men 's competition entries were low , nine being typical and in the 1911 Spring Meeting the 26 entries were hailed as a record and an event of high quality , even though only one player broke 90 gross . |
| 23 | It had become less simple and at the same time less complicated than that . |
| 24 | Port books have been neglected in the past as a source for internal trade in the proto-industrial period because of the nature of the source — it is vast and at the same time problematic . |
| 25 | I du n no , on the one side down a bit so he was n't so noticeable and round the other side there 's ! |
| 26 | In general , hardware requirements are lower , print quality is more consistent and with the plentiful availability of clip-art , it 's relatively easy to create an attractive image , even if you 're lacking in artistic talent . |
| 27 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 28 | In the short run capital or plant capacity is fixed but in the long run it is variable . |
| 29 | These problems demand intensive treatment — moisturising and nourishing but at the same time non-oily . |
| 30 | Many years ago the workforce was predominately male but with the greater use of automation and assembling of sub-assembly-type work , female workers form a greater proportion of the total than , say , 50 years ago . |