Example sentences of "and [adj] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atkinson shaded it , but both were home and dry by the 53rd minute . |
| 2 | The interest of how things are resides in their figuration , discernible and expressible by the deeper realist , of how things will be only in so far as that futurity is the truth and the end of how they are and always have been . |
| 3 | It was a curious conceit of imperial memoirists of the time to claim that their labours were unknown to and unappreciated by the British public . |
| 4 | He felt fit and hardened by the spartan life of the jungle camp and he contemplated exercising the skills of stealth and lightning-sharp reaction again for one last day with a fierce relish . |
| 5 | From that moment they drew breath more easily , not afraid to talk above a whisper , and undismayed by the echoing sound of their own footsteps . |
| 6 | Katherine Lundy was determined that her children would grow up unaffected and untainted by the cursed country . |
| 7 | Although clearly no pauper , and equally obviously ‘ a great ambassador for the game ’ as everyone stresses , Bobby Charlton remains mysteriously unclaimed by commerce and untouched by the dead hand of blandness . |
| 8 | She should have done so ages ago ; and if she knew her friend as well as she thought she did , then she would be intrigued and delighted by the whole affair . |
| 9 | The pamphlet said : ‘ The evidence is overwhelming that he arranged the perpetration of a major war crime in the full knowledge that the most barbarous and dishonourable aspects of his operations were throughout disapproved and unauthorised by the higher command , and in the full knowledge that a savage fate awaited those he was repatriating . |
| 10 | The shed windows were broken and stood out black and jagged by the reflected light of the moon . |
| 11 | However much the Donation had been perfected and refined by the twelfth century to fit into other papal arguments , there still remained the basic problem not so much as to the origin of power as to its descent . |
| 12 | The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief was founded to ease the suffering of refugees made homeless and hungry by the German occupation in 1942 . |
| 13 | I WAS embarrassed and ashamed by the front-page article in AMNESTY ( October/November 1992 ) headlined , ‘ Vatican gives official approval of death penalty ’ . |
| 14 | Scent trails are baked dry and odourless by the fierce sun . |
| 15 | This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority . |
| 16 | She stands small and thin by the curtained window , wearing a black sweatshirt , black wool leggings and pointed black suede shoes . |
| 17 | FROM 1907 to 1934 Sir Henry Newbolt , our great patriotic , nautical and sometimes contemplative poet , lived here in this lovely manor house on the village street of Netherhampton , backed by watermeadows and sheltered by the great chalk downs . |
| 18 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 19 | All which things these dukes wist well were done for good purpose and necessary by the whole council at London . ’ |
| 20 | It is all too easy to become bemused and befuddled by the enormous range of compact disc hardware now cluttering deals ' shelves . |
| 21 | Where some of us stood watching , aghast and spell-bound by the burning horror , the ground trembled and surged violently to and fro . ’ |
| 22 | This costly production , with the royal coat of arms embroidered in silk on white damask at the head of the bed , was manufactured and appropriately hung and plumed by the Royal School of Needlework and was donated by the school 's founder , Princess Christian , mother of Princess Marie Louise . |
| 23 | In the clay belt of Somerset along the coast , however , the land was already drained and productive by the eleventh century . |