Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All four were extraordinarily clever , given to fantasy and melancholy , and impractical to the point of danger . |
| 2 | This kind of erm usage of nuclear physics is often of a lot of interest and understandable to a child in the third form . |
| 3 | We should not be quite so narrow-minded , blinkered and xenophobic about the rest of the world . |
| 4 | This project seeks to answer a particular question : whether a child learning English and Spanish between the ages of one and three is learning one language system or two . |
| 5 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 6 | We wholeheartedly agree that the situation we currently face is regrettable and undesirable for the running of a happy , successful school to the benefit of the children , teachers and village . |
| 7 | He woke at three with a recurrence of the old nightmare-drowning and helpless in a deluge of glutinous liquid in which paradoxically there was also a ball of fire . |
| 8 | We look for a hand to hold , a shoulder to weep on , another body to cling to — anything that will reassure us that we are not alone , abandoned and helpless in the face of forces we do not understand . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , residents in Goddard Avenue are glad that the excavation is complete and grateful to the police for keeping disruption to a minimum . |
| 10 | It 's possible to give some help to the poor and needy of the world without having to give the dedication that Janet Lacey did . |
| 11 | It might well have been in the mind of the Cloud-author when he appealed to his disciple as a weary wretch , sleeping in sloth , and deaf to the calling of the disturbingly dynamic love of God . |
| 12 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 13 | Remembering that the elderly often become quite anxious and upset at the prospect of any change or disturbance of their normal routine , however pleasing the end-result promises to be , you will need to take anything they may regard as an ‘ upheaval ’ very slowly . |
| 14 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |
| 15 | The required user attributes of the software management system are that it is efficient in operation and supportive of the needs of software producers . |
| 16 | Continuous assessment programmes in each area of study must be totally integrated with and supportive of the specification for the topic area . |
| 17 | The church was old , dark and redolent of the incense of centuries . |
| 18 | Ken 's job in the library often leaves him tired and touchy at the end of a day . |
| 19 | From around 430 , debates on the relation between human and divine in the person of Christ were finally resolved — though further disagreement by no means eliminated — by the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ) . |
| 20 | The effective teacher of the 1990s can not simply be the skilled , classroom practitioner ; the evolution of the National Curriculum and the dominant consumer ideology mean that history teachers should be as careful and professional in the presentation of the case for history as they are in their curricular activities . |
| 21 | Of the wines produced in Alsace , 95 per cent are white and dry with a smattering of rosés , a few ( delicious ) reds , a handful of sweet whites ( identified on the label as being vendange tardive or late picked ) and a little sparkling , known as Cremant d'Alsace ) . |
| 22 | Drain the sample and dry in a stream of warm air . |
| 23 | At Crowland in Lincolnshire stands a medieval bridge , stranded high and dry in the middle of the town . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's all very well to plan for next year 's holiday or a new home but there 's litle point if your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner . ’ |
| 25 | The old phrase from a chapel childhood sprang at him , whole , and complete with the smell of daffodils in stale water in the chapel windowsills , the musty scent of Sankey 's Book of Sacred Songs and Solos , the fat lady at the harmonium , the long ah-men of Sunday mornings , Sunday afternoons and Sunday evenings . |
| 26 | The pair of them seemed pompous , arrogant and vain to the point of caricature . |
| 27 | He was silent only because he could n't think what to say to her , He walked with her , looked polite , and noted that her teeth and her temper seemed fair , and she was fine and broad across the hips for child-bearing . |
| 28 | The train for Dover left at Il.00 am so I bought a copy of Soldier magazine and leafed through the photos of happy-looking squaddies as I drank a cup of British Rail coffee , which tasted hot and disgusting . |
| 29 | In the first-class dining-car Cornelius Murphy spooned Brown Windsor into his mouth and leafed through The Book of Ultimate Truths . |
| 30 | Their local women 's group had met the day after the public meeting , and Sheila and Annie had had a fierce argument ; Sheila had been enthusiastic , Annie icy and antagonistic to the idea of wages for housework . |