Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … if the approach is through the intellect rather than through intuition , that is , through a tangible and examinable process of understanding and thinking , rather than through an imaginative and emotional and therefore intangible process of relishing and enjoying , irrespective of whether or not there is full understanding ( p. 8 ) . |
| 2 | Finer grades ( such as Parian or Pentelic ) were used for the most important statuary , and lower-quality and more local marble , mainly from south-western Turkey , was used for the main architectural building blocks of the monument . |
| 3 | We must never again allow , now that we 're all too painfully aware of the consequences any company to cheat and swindle any working man or woman after a lifetime 's toil from the right to a happy and dignified and financially secure retirement . |
| 4 | ‘ Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’ |
| 5 | They usually need new and improved or more affordable equipment and the future growth of service industries such as travel , broadcasting and entertainment , and increasingly in education and health care activities and environmental protection , will depend upon continued technical innovation . |
| 6 | The violas , as we know , being on their C string will impart a dark and strongly characterized tone-colour to the cellos who will be playing in a very sweet and expressive though rather sombre part of their compass . |
| 7 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
| 8 | They were honest and straightforward and jolly good stuff . |
| 9 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 10 | The results which management felt had been achieved included improved productivity , reduced time to market for product innovations , decreased inventory and rapid and more effective decision making . |
| 11 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |
| 12 | Stephen Spender divides writers into ‘ contemporaries ’ and ‘ moderns ’ ( 1962:555 ) ; Malcolm Bradbury distinguishes between the main current of fiction and peripheral but nevertheless important work by people like Samuel Beckett , Malcolm Lowry , William Golding , and Lawrence Durrell ( 1973 ) ; and Iris Murdoch draws a distinction between the ‘ journalistic ’ and the ‘ crystalline ’ which delineates similar categories . |
| 13 | Kanaan Abu Khadra was a case in point , a journalist in mandate Palestine — by all accounts a good one in a crusading and courageous if rather partisan sort of way — who founded and edited a newspaper called Al Shaab . |
| 14 | My argument has been , on the one hand , that individual executive information needs are so task- and context-dependent that only skilled knowledge workers — at best — can hope to provide effective services . |
| 15 | On the face of the planet there lies , assembled into one immense and complicated but always inter-connected body , a quantity of some 329 million cubic miles of water — the sea . |
| 16 | Roche 's oral protease inhibitor , Ro-31-8959 , was tested in three phase I/II protocols : advanced disease with ( France ) and without ( Italy ) previous zidovudine treatment , and symptom-free or minimally symptomatic disease ( UK ) . |
| 17 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 18 | Kun is quickwitted and charming ; his easy grace and sweet but never cloying tone are a real boon in the playful little Rosenkavalier -like inflexions which characterize so much of the score ( Bernstein was always so Viennese at heart ) ; his quiet contemplative manner pays rich dividends in the slow movement , ‘ Agathon ’ ( seven of Bernstein 's most poised and affecting minutes ) . |