Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] and [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At only £49.95 it 's available in grey , black or white and well worth a second look . |
| 2 | You 're feeling very languid and lazy and not in the mood for ‘ keeping house ’ and barking at all-comers . |
| 3 | It is an activity of the brave and strong and not of the cowardly , for ‘ Cowardice and Ahimsā do not go together any more than water and fire . ’ |
| 4 | For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’ |
| 5 | The curtains were drawn but they were thin and unlined and even in the subdued light he could see that the room was spectacularly untidy . |
| 6 | In the case of national trends , fiscal and monetary Policies adopted by the Labour government between 1976 and 1979 and particularly by the Conservative government between 1979 and 1982 had a marked effect on many urban manufacturing companies . |
| 7 | There is much less flexing both fore and aft and laterally in the Seayak than in other plastic sea kayaks . |
| 8 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 9 | When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles . |
| 10 | The Bean family was large and noisy and much under the thumb of father Bean , Nutty 's ‘ Uncle Knacker ’ , a fierce fat man with silver hair and a red face . |
| 11 | This is because the least common multiple of 584 and 260 is 37,960 , which is equal to the product of 65 and 584 and also to the product of 146 and 260 . |
| 12 | The more moderate , responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide . |
| 13 | Some 60 letters written by Sir William Hillary to the Institution between 1824 and 1845 and now in the RNLI 's archives have recently been treated for preservation and placed in a presentation box — the cost being met from money raised by the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society . |
| 14 | Since acquisition by the Atlantic Group , the Miaco operation has been streamlined and refined and up to the FlyPast visit had overhauled 25 Pratt & Whitney engines . |
| 15 | Victor , fatter and balder and more like a bilious little hippo than ever , was obviously enjoying playing the O'Briens off against the Mendozas . |
| 16 | The standard is high and varied and well worth a visit if one is in the area . |
| 17 | I walked slowly round each vehicle , then peered underneath it , coming out and round and on to the next one . |
| 18 | The second half of the century was a period of intolerance , of deepening division not only between Catholic and Protestant — though a Catholic emperor , Maximilian II , could still favour Lutherans and as late as 1583 a Catholic Archbishop of Cologne could contemplate marriage to a nun — but between Lutheran and Calvinist and even within the various religious camps . |