Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 2 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 3 | There is still an element of polarisation , however , which proclaims ‘ belief in the old and distrust in the new ’ . |
| 4 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 5 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 6 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 7 | With so many parameters to consider , it is helpful to have a system ensuring that the criteria are consistent and applied in the same order . |
| 8 | With so many parameters to consider , it is helpful to have a system ensuring that the criteria are consistent and applied in the same order . |
| 9 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 10 | That 's a bit bland , is n't it ? ’ he challenged teasingly , his eyes appearing dark and glittering in the dim light of the candles , and his lashes impossibly long and thick . |
| 11 | The Etudes , too , are a mixed success , movingly rich and contained in the tortuous near-Wagnerian chromaticism of Op. 10 No. 6 , thrillingly powerful and rhetorical in the octave storms of Op. 25 No. 10 , but inclined towards an outsize , Lisztian thunder in the concentrated wit and delicacy of Op. 25 , Nos. 3 and 4 . |
| 12 | After 6 hours , the cells were treated with 15% glycerol in complete medium for 3 minutes , washed and maintained in the same medium . |
| 13 | Small-scale and localized in the early nineteenth century , it became large-scale and increasingly concentrated in several main trawler ports as the century wore on . |
| 14 | Acceleration can only fake gravity when the gravity is the same everywhere — equally strong and pulling in the same direction — like it is in this room , more or less . |
| 15 | He brought a distinctive musical conception to each , relentlessly inventive in the right hand , strong and varied in the left , and constantly musical in their combination . |
| 16 | Should you wish it , you can treat the Sauerhof as a chance to get in trim ; they offer most kinds of sports and have extensive gym , sauna and pool facilities — there are even bicycles for hire so you can get fit and take in the lovely countryside at the same time . |
| 17 | This point had become confused and lost in the over-socialized conception of man which had developed in modern sociology . |
| 18 | As spring came , with the supreme optimism of Nature , the shattered trees pushed out a new leaf here and there , but soon these too dropped sick and wilting in the poisonous atmosphere . |
| 19 | Mash until smooth and stir in the chopped parsley . |
| 20 | Suppression of the Communist-inspired 1932 insurgency in El Salvador ( see page 41 ) was truly ferocious and resulted in the complete destruction of the party apparatus and the execution of its leaders ( including the man whose name has been adopted by the current guerrilla movement in El Salvador , Farabundo Martí ) . |
| 21 | Crilly wakes and tells me about when he was little and slept in the same room as his father , while his sisters slept with his mother . |
| 22 | The dark hair clung to his forehead and his body was flushed and glistening and bathed in the dull crimson glow . |
| 23 | ‘ You get young people who appear to be socially confident and assured in the outside world but inside they are remarkably immature and insecure . |
| 24 | The Bernt Carlsson Trust , which is chaired by Mrs Glenys Kinnock , wife of the Labour leader , pledges to ‘ aid the poor and distressed in the third world ’ . |
| 25 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
| 26 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 27 | Since then , however , Meciar appeared to be more reluctant and declared in the same Le Monde interview : " We do n't want independence . |
| 28 | Since then , however , Meciar appeared to be more reluctant and declared in the same Le Monde interview : " We do n't want independence . |
| 29 | Her accounts come from letters to a penpal and published in the Daily Express . |
| 30 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |