Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teaching is formal but the children seemed interested and responsive and managed some surprisingly good writing despite immense disabilities . |
| 2 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 3 | Her smile seemed to me to be defiant and triumphant and accepting all at once , which was ridiculous since a smile is only a smile : sometimes honest , sometimes forced no more . |
| 4 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 5 | The churches are large , very simple and austere and have little of the richly carved doorways , capitals and mouldings of other Romanesque work . |
| 6 | The interior is simple and austere and has much in common with English cathedrals of this date . |
| 7 | Janis knew everything about wine and therefore was lovely and witty and intelligent and got this buzz out of the interchange . |
| 8 | In the water , it breathes with its gills like any normal fish , but like the bichir it uses its lungs too , rising every now and then to gulp air from the surface , a talent which is particularly valuable when the water in the pools becomes tepid and foul and loses most of its oxygen . |
| 9 | From being a relatively happy , if somewhat timid , little girl Maxine became shy and secretive and spent many hours playing alone , either in the garden or in her bedroom . |
| 10 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 11 | For over 200 years , in the late Byzantine period , Serbia was strong and influential and built many monasteries and churches before succumbing to the Ottoman Empire . |
| 12 | But you may have to think hard and long and reject many ideas that seemed promising before arriving at an ending to your book that is at once what everyone all along expected and what no one , or hardly anyone , thought would happen in that way . |
| 13 | Over 15O staff from around the London area spent Sunday April 25 getting bruised and muddy while shooting each other in a Surrey wood . |
| 14 | Bones in a baby 's foot are very soft and malleable and take some 18 years to harden completely . ’ |
| 15 | So that was one job a and then we had a big used to beg for a an old sack from the stores and open that out and er I used to wash them wash it and get it very soft and clean and hang that up and that 's the way used to clean and keep ourselves cl hands clean . |
| 16 | But the speech was brief and unplatitudinous and earned many compliments . |
| 17 | After the arrest of Chatichai and Arthit the coup was swift and bloodless and caused little disruption in Bangkok where the key installations were all placed under military control . |
| 18 | It 's all scruffy and wet and looks all beat up . |
| 19 | On the far side of the tunnel , near the side of the line towards Bath , there was an immensely deep rock quarry , disused and deserted but containing some old equipment , rusting away at the bottom . |
| 20 | Like Mum , they were good and meek and deserved more love . |
| 21 | It involves questioning and challenging and testing all views — those that represent the status quo — as well as those clamouring for change . |
| 22 | Once the contraceptive pill ( invented in 1952 ) had become available and accepted and made any further baby boom unlikely , years of frustrated and dammed-up feminism were ready to burst in the new wave of women 's liberation . |
| 23 | His suggestion is to see competing criteria as both compatible and congruent and to accept that ‘ organizational effectiveness is inherently paradoxical . |
| 24 | A common practice is to define women 's responses as moralistic and emotional while seeing those of men as rational and hard-headed . |
| 25 | I ca n't think why , when they 're so big and strong and have this beautiful warren . |
| 26 | Nothing inspires the confidence as much as sudden recognition , while nothing is more dispiriting and worrying than to lose all track of your route . |
| 27 | Disused mineral workings are not just the adventure playground of the young and old but provide many recreational needs . |
| 28 | ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’ |
| 29 | Time spent in careful planning at the beginning of a test can make the test more efficient and economical and save much time in its execution . |
| 30 | I suppose all the British girls fall for Spaniards at first — because they 're so handsome and vital and have such a love of living . ’ |