Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She talked darkly of witchcraft , of wolves with eyes like opals , and fiery breath which left scorch marks on the ground ; and countercharged . |
| 2 | In other words , the type of critical and political self-analysis which New Historicists claim to be aware of is insufficiently foregrounded when reading a Renaissance text . |
| 3 | Significant national differences will reflect , for instance , the nature of the pre-industrial economic and political order whose lingering effects will continue to influence the newly industrialising society , as well as the particular historical periods at which countries began to industrialise . |
| 4 | The cistern of the washdown design is mounted on the wall , and connected tot he floor-mounted pan by a short length of curved pipe called the flush bend . |
| 5 | The explanation of the kind of art shown in this exhibition may be sought in the deep-seated and persistent interest which human beings have in the fantastic , the irrational , the spontaneous , the marvellous , the enigmatic , and the dreamlike . |
| 6 | I was half expecting some serious , mumbling classical music type , but instead I found an intelligent and lively personality whose last opera was a portrait of American comedian Jack Benny . |
| 7 | Their lives , or more precisely their ‘ moral careers ’ , are certainly regulated by bureaucracy and officialdom , and , eventually , by dominant social interests ; but again , the word ‘ surveillance ’ overemphasises the degree of detailed , continuing and direct control which any state would find difficult to sustain . |
| 8 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 9 | Yet , as I pointed out above , it is the origin and causes of these circumstances which really need to be explained — not to mention other , non-individualistic phenomena like religion and cultural tradition which this approach , with its narrow focus on childhood conditioning , usually quite ignores . |
| 10 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 11 | Dávila , however , was a bully , a cruel and insecure man whose constant attacks on the Indians succeeded in turning them from ‘ sheep ’ , as Balboa called them , into ‘ fierce lyons ’ . |
| 12 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 13 | In language which retained the authentic ring of Robert Owen , it still sought far-reaching social and political change , ‘ a different order of things , in which the really useful and intelligent part of society only shall have the direction of its affairs ; in which industry and virtue shall meet their just distinction and reward , and vicious idleness its merited contempt and destruction . ’ |
| 14 | Rather it is an opportunity for them to contribute positively to the educational , social and personal support which many pupils do need but often do not receive . |
| 15 | He is , she contends , typical of those thinkers ; she also includes Max Black ( 1972 ) and Stuart Hampshire ( 1959 : 97–100 ) , who are not disputing nor even interested in ‘ the very large literature of careful discussion by zoologists and psychologists about the different kinds of understanding and conceptual grasp which different sorts of animals actually display ’ ( 1983 : 57 ) . |
| 16 | Two crews that would have been especially grateful for this kind of compensation were Dennis Arlett and Patricial Lagesse whose accumulated woes would not let them pass Gao while , even more heart-rending was the final submission of the chassis previously held together by Jean-Christophe Savzey and Claire de Valbray — an agonizing 50km from the finish . |
| 17 | Children 's talk indicates to the gifted teacher the intellectual and perceptual level which each child has reached . |
| 18 | In fact , it is the facility to achieve high degrees of such co-ordination and control in its complex inter-market organization and state-facilitated integration which many commentators have seen as the strategic edge of Japanese capitalism . |
| 19 | Deland , a dapper and sophisticated character whose varied career included a stint as a part-time magician , came to executive search through working for an upmarket recruiting agency . |
| 20 | One of the restaurants they visited was Don Leone 's — a stone 's throw from the marina in Puerto Banus where the rich and famous moor their luxury yachts . |
| 21 | We should not have to anguish over what needs to be done to stop the physical and mental havoc which such racists wreak on black people . |
| 22 | The Democratic People 's Party elected Sandor Keresztes its chairman and Emese Ugrin its general secretary in September 1989 . |
| 23 | A few miles from Huntspill , in the hamlet of Shurton , lived Henry Poole , a fellow student of Coleridge 's at Jesus College , and one member of a large and talented family whose various branches were scattered through a number of local villages . |
| 24 | BSL is fundamental to the cognitive and linguistic representation which deaf people use . |
| 25 | As to the performance , the increasing quantity of ‘ voices only ’ work by the Hilliard Ensemble and others gives rise to several questions about the performance style and vocal colour which these groups consciously or not have adopted . |
| 26 | We have also noted in passing the important and increasing role which public authorities have come to play in many countries in the bargaining process . |
| 27 | A brave , self-reliant and practical traveller whose sensible clothes saved her life . |
| 28 | Béroff plays the more spectacular pieces ( such as the ‘ Regard de l'espirit de joie ’ ) with rhythmic energy and sheer bravura which few others have even approached . |
| 29 | The race has always been known as le grand boucle , the great belt , a circuit binding together a large and various country whose distant regions — Provence and Picardy , Brittany and Savoy — knew little of each other . |
| 30 | The Kingdom of the Netherlands ( comprising the Netherlands in Europe , the Netherlands Antilles , and Aruba ) is a hereditary and constitutional monarchy whose three parts nominally enjoy full autonomy . |