Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further afield is the ‘ Eternal City ’ — Rome , crammed with historic landmarks , and alive with an energetic lust for life , all accessible for a day trip . |
| 2 | Presumably efficient and discreet as an administrative organizer and record keeper , his were less successful essays into political propaganda , on behalf of the regime against its radical critics , the Levellers . |
| 3 | The ten year old plaintiff dropped one of the paraffin lamps down the hole and due to an unusual combination of circumstances there was an explosion and the plaintiff was badly burned . |
| 4 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 5 | Assessment must be valid and reliable with an associated quality assurance system that ensures the credibility of the award . |
| 6 | A more delicate question to assess , however , is whether one could reasonably maintain that they are pre-adapted for Language ( not necessarily vocal , but symbolic and semantic in an appropriate sense ) . |
| 7 | Forget Swindon 's league form : Portsmouth away in the Coca Cola Cup was never going to be easy , and the famous old Pompey chimes were ringing loud and clear as an old County Ground favourite Alan McLoughlin led the charge . |
| 8 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 9 | They involve acquiring new knowledge and attitudes to learning including a degree of flexibility often uncomfortable to an insecure teacher and foreign to an authoritarian culture , more work and more thinking for everybody : and thinking in itself is hard work . |
| 10 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 11 | I 'll pass on this one and leave interested parties to contact John Watson , though I guess it 's worth adding that NME 's ‘ Dancing Master ’ cassette is now a collector 's item mainly because it contains a live U2 cut , ‘ An Cut Dubh ’ , recorded in March , 1981 and unavailable on an authorised recording . |
| 12 | Maureen , 81 , stormed : ‘ Soon-Yi has been foolish and misguided about an old man . |
| 13 | He is now a forgotten man who will while away his twilight years alone and insecure in an alien land , longing to return to Russia.The KGB has not been slow to remind its senior intelligence personnel of the isolated lifestyle that awaits them in the West should they be tempted to defect , pointing out the benefits of enjoying a relatively luxurious and secure existence in Russia . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll have to make peace , you and I. You 're too sharp and quick for an old sailor like me … ‘ |
| 15 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 16 | For all that he knew , she could be lying dead and cold in an empty building somewhere . |
| 17 | And then to go home , tired and cold in an empty place , and cold and must of been terrible ! |
| 18 | Daphne 's huge bosom and vast posterior looked as if they were about to burst from her too-tight black costume ; Rose , small-boned and slender , looked remarkably young and pretty in an aquamarine bikini that suited her fair colouring . |
| 19 | EOF#-1 returns TRUE for an expanded machine and FALSE for an unexpanded machine . |
| 20 | EOF#-1 returns TRUE for an expanded machine ( >=; 128Kbytes of RAM in SLOT 1 ) and FALSE for an unexpanded machine . |
| 21 | The Great Barr , located to the north of the city , close to motorway links and ideal for an overnight stop or as a touring base for the motorists exploring the Big Heart of England . |
| 22 | And I was desolate and sick of an old passion … |
| 23 | And I am desolate and sick of an old passion , |
| 24 | That was when she 'd wish them luck , as they roared over the village , and she would watch them all until they were silhouetted against the dying sun , small and graceful in an apricot sky . |
| 25 | They were rotten and slimy with an awful smell . |
| 26 | Following the successful launch of the Four Legged Friend work bench , Luna Tools has introduced the Solo speed vice to make the bench even more versatile and useful as an all-purpose workshop tool . |
| 27 | I used to think he behaved like someone with constant PMT — irrational and unpredictable to an alarming degree . |
| 28 | Will I see your slight and shaking form , your eyes shifty and sickly from an unwitting detox , your small quivering head , your rag-and-bone nails and skinny hand of screaming white ? |
| 29 | The exhibition 's curators are Richard Brettell , Director of the Dallas Museum of Art and responsible for an impressive list of other projects including ‘ A Day in the Country : Impressionism and the French Landscape ’ ( 1984–85 ) and ‘ The Art of Paul Gauguin ’ ( 1988–89 ) , and Joachim Pissarro , the artist 's great-grandson and author of Monet 's Cathedrals ( Pavilion Press , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |