Example sentences of "a [adj] and [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as in life when you enter a room that has balance and shape in its architecture , it is something that has a subtle and decidedly enhancing effect . |
| 2 | It was a dignified and deeply moving occasion , the funerals of five ordinary people leading ordinary lives until they were gunned down by Loyalist terrorists . |
| 3 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 4 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 5 | To Ashley the ceremony seemed a simple and yet moving reminder of the basics of life . |
| 6 | Brian Carter , Torquay Herald Express nature columnist and local conservationist , was then introduced and delivered a nostalgic and hard hitting talk on local and international environmental issues drawing from his experiences . |
| 7 | Despite being faced with a complex and rapidly evolving society , the prejudice that is apparent on the pages of textbooks threatens to stultify research . |
| 8 | From M T Woodcraft , a full-sized and fully working barrow in iroko costs £134 . |
| 9 | Peter clearly took to heart what must have been a challenging and potentially testing message . |
| 10 | A High Elf army is normally a compact and hard hitting force , a select body of Elves brought together to defend some realm or oust an invader . |
| 11 | Perhaps most impressively of all , the visionary glow of the C sharp minor Fugue in Book One makes for a transcendental and deeply telling interpretation that silences all criticism . |
| 12 | This feeling is a rewarding and hence motivating experience . |
| 13 | Three years after the termination of war in 1945 a friendly nation , France , was fighting a desperate and apparently losing struggle in Indo-China . |
| 14 | Either way , a cheerful and faintly self-questioning sufficiency stands as the hallmark of the modern British literary mind , and it is without obvious sources at home or abroad . |
| 15 | I often think of you , for example as at a recent and deeply moving funeral for a long-standing friend who had died of AIDS , when I sat inside the church literally underneath/beside your sculpture , but I am an increasingly bad correspondent , possibly as a result of so many letters re jobs ! |
| 16 | The monarchy had passed from the Bruces to the Stewarts and Robert was the first of a new and long lasting dynasty . |
| 17 | About 1868 a new school was built but this has now been replaced by a modern and forward thinking school for five to eleven year olds . |
| 18 | The city 's architecture captures the memory of the 17th century wealth of a seafaring and predominantly trading nation . |
| 19 | We treat criminals in a disrespectful and often dehumanising way so that they will continue to express our Shadow . |
| 20 | Not far away a turgid and fast moving river rushed southward in narrow gorges . |