Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George was generous and conciliatory to an extent that Coleridge can hardly have expected . |
| 2 | you see I go on fruit and that for a day and all I do the next day is get a terrible cramp in the stomach |
| 3 | Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult . |
| 4 | This applies between the ages of 65 and 70 for a man and from 60 to 65 for a woman . |
| 5 | In Gwent we have embarked on a major study to do this and will be offering a prostate health check to over 10000 men aged between 55 and 70 in a study that is associated with the European programme concerned with early prostatic cancer . |
| 6 | Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's . |
| 7 | All the male terms in the following list are relatively neutral and descriptive of a job or a position — master/mistress , host/hostess , fisherman/fishwife , prince/princess , bachelor/spinster . |
| 8 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 9 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 10 | Next I began to worship actors like gods and I 'd go and see the same performance again and again , transported , until I learned that the actor , the one I had in mind , was exceptionally polygamous and stingy as a goat and so I let that one go . |
| 11 | It was late , but Mrs Mallory was still ironing , the line of her mouth grim and purposeful in a face that was unusually tired and unhappy . |
| 12 | Screwy sort of argument — I mean , what she was really saying was half right on the nail , and half like a whirlpool that sucks everything into it . ’ |
| 13 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 14 | Public rooms include a television lounge , and another with a bar and open fireplace . |
| 15 | Bodies wrapped in blankets , linen burial suits , a coffin of the best elm lined with lead , one covered with black cloth and decorated with white nails — indicative of a spinster — and another with a double or false lid . |
| 16 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
| 17 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 18 | He had taken far more interest in their efforts than his father had thought was right and proper for a boy and when Leonie , his eldest sister , had been apprenticed to a dressmaker his fascination had grown . |
| 19 | They go out in covnoys of 10 and 12 at a time and they 'll have no officers or senior NCO 's accompanying them |
| 20 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 21 | His voices , insights , personae and images feel truthful and contemporary in a way that most theatre does not . |
| 22 | Their movements are graceful and controlled , their minds are quick and clever with an intensity and depth of insight which makes them seem fey and strange to other races . |
| 23 | However , it is now known that the Moon is devoid of seas , and devoid of an atmosphere as well . |
| 24 | Water the plant well and keep warm and shaded for a day or two while it settles down . |
| 25 | The facts are that the Palace of justice was built between 1935 and 1940 in a style that is known in Italy as Littoria , but which we would term Fascist . |
| 26 | " We took prints we had lying around and played with them and all of a sudden that broke everything loose " . |
| 27 | I was working and all of a sudden and one the woman began to sing Rock of Ages in a loud voice and then the man joined in and I sort of thought I heard sort of and I thought oh , they 've got a bottle which they 've taken out of their pockets which they were passing from side to side . |
| 28 | And all for a price that at an ordinary hotel would barely cover the cost of bed and breakfast . |
| 29 | And all in a package that 's the most compact in existence — anywhere . |
| 30 | Scared of the dark and freezing in a T-shirt and track suit bottoms , Matthew shouted himself hoarse until he was discovered . |