Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , the cover of ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ features Enya in which can only be described as an opera gown — she could be twenty or forty but her delicate beauty is intact . |
| 2 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 3 | The first possibility is that the cat in question is ill or senile and its whole behaviour routine is starting to collapse . |
| 4 | You become tiny or huge and your first VR journey begins . |
| 5 | Goodridge 's best-known work is the Lansdown tower on the edge of the city , built in 1824–7 for the celebrated William Beckford [ q.v. ] , who had settled in Bath in 1823 ; and this and his own residence , Montebello ( later Bathwick Grange ) on Bathwick Hill ( 1828–30 ) , are compositions of great originality , combining a Picturesque irregularity of form with an eclectic mixture of Greek and Italianate detail . |
| 6 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 7 | Fen was much taller and broader and his swarthy colouring was not something that had appealed to her hitherto . |
| 8 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 9 | The high , family cheek-bones stuck up gaunt and stark and her narrow shoulders jutted through the fabric of her sweater like bony wings . |
| 10 | His voice was croaked and hoarse and his shocked stare came to rest on David as if he instinctively knew he was a doctor . |
| 11 | She is weak and ill but her first prayer is not for herself but for her unborn child who is dedicated to Christ 's service . |
| 12 | For most of the evening she was tired and irritable and her ensuing behaviour caused considerable disruption to family life . |
| 13 | The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive . |
| 14 | Both Dorothea 's discomforting sense of an almost impassable gulf dividing rich and poor and their peculiar confidence in the building of cottages are slight anachronisms in the early 1830s ; by the 1870s they are pervasive assumptions , indicating that , in the forty intervening years , attitudes to the poor and their houses had undergone a radical change . |
| 15 | Maybe Henry would have ended up warped and perverse but his unofficial education among the elite certainly helped him along the way . |
| 16 | At the moment though there are many indications that the South African government and military and their Namibian supporters will try to sabotage any semblance of ’ free and fair ’ elections . |
| 17 | This locates the vertex of both tractrix and catenary and their vertical axis of symmetry can be erected . |
| 18 | This is a means whereby analogue signals like guitar , vocals etc. can be converted to digital and inputted to computer storage , to be sequenced and looped or whatever digital hocus pocus takes your fancy . |
| 19 | By now the day was hot and bright and my first need was for lunch and a glass of wine . |
| 20 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 21 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 22 | Relations with Law were cool but courteous and his tactical advice was always available on difficult issues , such as the question of the Army Act in 1914 . |