Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Its loss ratio must accordingly be quite high and as the dominant UK export credit underwriter , this should not be surprising . |
| 3 | Chairman Peter Hollings still insisted yesterday its £18.3m bid last year was ‘ generous and in the best interests of both companies ' shareholders ’ . |
| 4 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 5 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 6 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Social workers really do need to take a stand alongside the old person involved listening and respecting the expressed wishes as far as possible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had become less simple and at the same time less complicated than that . |
| 16 | Omar was a devout Muslim and like the best Somalis was proud and fearless , though he proved to be remarkably tactful and forbearing whenever I was impatient or angry , and always upheld my authority even when I made a mistake . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | — The hair is styled and combed as usual and in the desired fashion and the result is ideal and marvellous . |
| 22 | It has one of the finest outlooks on the Solway coast ; the views of the bay and beaches are panoramic and in the far distance Lake District peaks can be seen . |
| 23 | These arguments were originally intended to exclude women from autonomy and leadership , both in the political and in the ecclesiastical realms . |
| 24 | It 's not right and to the wee fella . |
| 25 | Elaborate precautions were taken to avoid disputes over precedence between the representatives of France and Spain ( the long-standing rivalry between these two states was the most serious potential source of this kind of friction ) by placing them both on the king 's right and at the same distance from him . |
| 26 | Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives . |
| 27 | Even with everything mechanical working and at the right temperature , you can still unbalance the biological and most important part of the system very easily . |
| 28 | When the Social Services ' Committee raised concerns about basic definitions for collaborative working and about the apparent overlap between the care programme approach and care management , the Secretary of State for Health referred them to Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond — Policy Guidance . |
| 29 | This must be achieved as well as possible and for the best price . |
| 30 | Our brief was to board and rummage as many of these foreign vessels as possible and at the same time carry out checks on the British boats to control any possible lead in duty free stores . |