Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the record , John Browne 's polled 32,195 votes for the Tories in 1987 , Alliance candidate Jock Macdonald took 24,716 votes , Labour 4,028 and the Green party 565 . |
| 2 | He was of a kind Creggan did not recognize , with white head plumage that ran magnificently down his neck , and wing feathers of a deep and rich brown and a black-yellow beak . |
| 3 | A British orderly and a Polish civilian were pumping filth from one of the lavatories into a long cylindrical cart . |
| 4 | The key advantages were a very comfortable boot , with a grippy rubber sole and a dramatic reduction of the weight of boot and binding combined . |
| 5 | Q The natural colour of my hair is between a light brown and a dark brown . |
| 6 | On the handle are three bodies of animals he overcame , the Nemean Lion , the Keryneian hind and the Erymanthian boar , and at the base , the tree with the Golden Apples , two of the Stymphalian birds and the Lernaean Hydra . |
| 7 | In a way that is all too typical of both the English Left and the English lesbian and gay movement , Positive Images failed to draw on the parallel developments around local government funding of lesbian and gay projects in the USA . |
| 8 | Unlike most of what was on the menu , two wines were actually available , a semi-sweet white and a semi-sweet red . |
| 9 | By way of comparison , both the British left and the German right have been well mapped in terms of their social constituencies , the social geography of their electoral support , and their organizational structures . |
| 10 | As a result of restricting our study to non-variceal bleeding and a high referral rate from other hospitals there is a seemingly high incidence of Dieulafoy 's lesion in our patients . |
| 11 | At the end of Precambrian times , one can not but be impressed by the similarities of deposits such as the Eocambrian of Greenland , the Swedish Jotnian , the Scottish Torridonian and the French Brioverian . |
| 12 | Scottish Nuclear and the recognised trade unions within the company recently announced their intention to join the compensation scheme for radiation-linked diseases . |
| 13 | The third seed was beaten in four sets by the 18th-ranked Czech and the highly-rated Swede was forced to admit : ‘ It was one of those days . ’ |
| 14 | Apart from entrepreneurs , powerful members of the Honduran military and the ruling Nationalist party are large investors along with Ecuadorian and US multinational interests . |
| 15 | If you have a good Christian friend , you could always practise witnessing by one of you pretending to be an interested non-Christian and the other being her/himself . |
| 16 | Now you have a superb pork roast with crunchy crackling and a cold joint which will not crumble when carved ( the normal problem with pork on a buffet ) , as the moisture has been retained in the meat . |
| 17 | From his learning experiences at this time Horton moved to an interest in the Danish idea of Folk Schools which were based on non-formal , largely oral , methods of learning , and which embraced both contemporary political and a cultural side to the education . |
| 18 | It was dark outside and The Fat Controller pulled up the velvet collar of his overcoat . |
| 19 | The major political development has been the division of the communists into the reformist Democratic Left and the Marxist Refoundation , and the growth of protest movements . |
| 20 | Beyond that first ridge came rolling scrubland , the soil impoverished over the centuries by annual burning and the single crop agronomy of the Maya , the land now abandoned . |
| 21 | The Arara territory was cut in two by the Trans-Amazon highway in the early 1970s and the northern part sold to colonists ; the road to the sawmill has further divided the area . |
| 22 | With its maddened strings , echo-chamber vocal and the odd filigree of lonesome country whistling , it is vaguely suggestive of the sixties pop-melodrama of ‘ Wichita Lineman ’ or ‘ Something 's Gotten Hold of My Heart ’ . |
| 23 | A small sandgrouse of the shorter-tailed group , both sexes also lacking the dark line on the breast possessed by all other breeding sandgrouse of the region except the long-tailed Spotted and the short-tailed female Lichtenstein 's . |
| 24 | Many of the early stations on these lines were portable buildings or baggage cars , but soon both the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific developed standard designs in categories ranging from one to three or four . |
| 25 | Conditions provided plenty of drama on the reach out of the Crouch , with a cold and vicious south-westerly and a lumpy sea which spread-eagled the unwary in broaches both to windward and to leeward , and a variety of spectacular gybes and blow-outs . |
| 26 | Wally Hanlon was Palace 's dapper little outside-left throughout the early 1950s and a huge favourite with the fans for his canny wing-play and superb ball control . |
| 27 | The pressure to change emerged out of the recession in the early 1980s and the increasing incursion of the Japanese into world markets with productivity levels light years ahead of European competitors . |
| 28 | When they were thirty yards off , Campana gave the order to fix bayonets , but just at that moment the Germans were caught between salvoes of short-falling 75s and the French rifle fire . |
| 29 | He said most PowerBooks models are available except for the top-end 180 and the new colour model 165C , still in short supply . |
| 30 | Coke gives them a quick high and a safe return . |