Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seats are comfortable and supportive too and the driving position is excellent . |
| 2 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 3 | The atmosphere filters out most of the gamma and X-radiation so that the amount reaching ground level from space is virtually zero , and astronomers who seek to measure these short-wave radiations must send their telescopes into space . |
| 4 | The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted . |
| 5 | It was one of those crisp , clear autumnal days with the leaves vivid and squishy underfoot and the sky above one perfect , if chilling , blue . |
| 6 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 7 | A piece of wall that is clean and firm and decent even when the paper has been stripped away from it ! ’ |
| 8 | Clara , grown careless and ruthless now that the struggle was over , did not fail to point out that the school would have helped upon request . |
| 9 | Perhaps this was in the Collector 's mind as he lay there , silent and motionless now that the fever had left him and he was beginning to recover . |
| 10 | Walt Disney also suggested that Shere Khan , the villain of the piece , was aristocratic and regal rather than the slavering , growling heavy that he had been in development . |
| 11 | And then it was over , and they were coming out into the grey , windy day , the mothers trying not to look at the white-capped sea beyond the point , the boys suddenly gruff and silent now that the moment of parting was come . |