Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them spoke on the way out , and the only obviously awkward moment was when Marc put out a hand to open the door and she bumped into him . |
| 2 | Within Carinthia ( itself a province sufficiently remote from the Austria known to the 1920s to seem Ruritanian ) lie the castles of Littain , Hohenem , Varvic , Midian , Reichtenberg and Gath ; the noble heroines make their champions free of such Christian names as Leonie , Olivia and Marya ; pseudonymous villains like Barabbas , ‘ Rose ’ Noble , Pluto and Onon Forecast cast their shadows forward to the works of Ian Fleming and the only truly villainous female glares at her enemies as ‘ Vanity Fayre ’ . |
| 3 | His visit lasted for a few hours at most — taking into account the time spent asleep — and the only really detailed description he gave was of the accommodation in which he slept in General Gowon 's home . |
| 4 | The case was the first brought against nine extremists arrested in June 1990 in East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] and the first under 1989 legislation allowing milder sentences for those turning state 's evidence [ see p. 36046 for draft legislation ] . |
| 5 | This technology is a world 's first for Ciba-Geigy , and the new environmentally friendly system will , the company claims , set the standards for similar installations well into the next century . |
| 6 | With the improved methods of catching , both in the design of nets and the new highly sophisticated electronics for finding the shoals , large catches were being made . |
| 7 | It 's actually a very fast guitar and after half an hour of chords , runs and the odd quite musical moment , I found myself getting on really well with it . |
| 8 | Yet , even when this has been allowed for , the balance of forces between the continuing general oral culture and the selective technically transmitted culture has been in at least some respects altered , and with it the nature of the asymmetry between the institutions of cultural production and the broader institutions of general social and cultural reproduction . |
| 9 | The matter was adjourned till Monday , with the threat of Lord S 's resignation hanging over everybody and the still more alarming possibility that Winston , if thwarted , would resign , split the country and the party and produce a situation of real gravity . |
| 10 | But Mr Lafontaine , standard-bearer of the up-and-coming generation , and the second most important figure after Mr Vogel on the committee drafting the party programme for the next decade , has certainly not had things all his own way . |
| 11 | In local government finance , work by Tony Travers ( 1988 ) is useful as are the case studies on local authority budgeting edited by Elcock and Jordan ( 1987 ) and the ensuing more theoretical book by Elcock et al. |
| 12 | Carolyn watched him , caught between her astonishment at his presence here , and the sudden absolutely natural way they were talking . |
| 13 | The rare great sun dew and the rarer still oblong-leaved sun dew , the common butterwort and the three species of bladderwort , can also be found in the wet places of the Lake District . |
| 14 | One was Paul McGahan , a senior North Harbour player and a former All Black halfback who played on the tours of France and Argentina . |
| 15 | He had a deafening voice and a still more deafening laugh . |
| 16 | It is enough to say that , especially after 1529 , Parliament became a more dynamic and a still less dispensable part of English government than it had been before . |
| 17 | W. Dyfed Parry dignified the teaching of English , Walter Jones enlivened history ( which should be , but is not always , the brightest of subjects ) , S. S. Michaels brought to the classics a massive learning and a sharp yet generous wit . |
| 18 | The few examples of her work that exist show her to have a strong sense of composition and a bold yet sensitive line . |
| 19 | The disk is covered with imbricating plates each carrying a club-like spinelet , the enlarged tip of which is rugose ; in some specimens there are roughly two sizes of spinelet ; the larger club-like spinelet and a smaller more granule-like spinelet . |
| 20 | Even with the extra land involved , which I seem to remember used to be a near derelict gravel soccer pitch and a few barely used tennis courts , the Roland Garros site would still only cover 21.5 acres , compared with 44 at Wimbledon . |