Example sentences of "[noun] and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their river habitat east of Quebec city has become a chemical soup of pollutants which probably causes a failure of their immune system or leads to a variety of other diseases such as bladder and other cancers , hepatitis , and perforated ulcers . |
| 2 | The senior surgeon at the Dreadnought Seamen 's Hospital had a series of incomparable radiographs of bladder and renal chyluria . |
| 3 | She is a woman of middle stature , soft features , gentle manners and elegant presence . ’ |
| 4 | She felt disturbed ; thinking of the gleaming Karl with his polished manners and mannered poise , and of how once he had been a boy . |
| 5 | Her father had expected excessively high standards of her as a child — better deportment , better table manners and better school reports — all of which she felt she could never attain . |
| 6 | Now , as he drank Robert 's champagne , and saw her , silent beside him , her head set downwards , a columbine on its stem , and as modestly inaccessible , Andrew knew that good manners and good sense told him to redress the misfortune of that last experience . |
| 7 | I knew that his clothes , his manners and uneducated way of speaking would make me ashamed of him . |
| 8 | Beneath his refined manners and superficial elegance lay something treacherous . |
| 9 | A senior female officer explained to an assembly of policewomen who were being trained in how to operate a casualty bureau that they were better suited to operating the telephones because of their ‘ good manners and compassionate nature ’ ( FN 29/5/87 , p. 2 ) . |
| 10 | Mrs Helmsley , who began adult life selling cigarettes in a New York cinema , had become so unpopular as the details of her manners and penny-pinching management technique were exposed in court during her trial that her lawyers based an eleventh-hour appeal for mercy on her likely prison victimisation as a ‘ notorious , widely-reviled , vastly wealthy New York Jew . ’ |
| 11 | He used regularly to stop me and congratulate me on your charming manners and pretty frocks ! |
| 12 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 13 | We were fortunate to have the loan of a new Citroën BX 4x4 Estate for our weekend trip , which , with its sure-footed permanent four-wheel drive , impeccable road manners and self-levelling suspension , had taken everything in its stride , — including , thanks to its optional electronic ABS braking system , stopping quickly and safely when we suddenly encountered a 5 mile tail back in a contra-flow on the M1 . |
| 14 | We were fortunate enough to have the loan of a new Citroën BX 4×4 Estate for our weekend trip which , with its sure-footed permanent 4-wheel drive , impeccable road manners and self-levelling suspension , had taken everything in its stride , — including , thanks to its optional electronic ABS braking system , stopping quickly and safely when we suddenly encountered a 5 mile tail back in a contra-flow on the M1 . |
| 15 | The topics include the techniques and tools of astrophysics , the Galaxy and interstellar matter , stellar structure and evolution , degenerate states of matters , pulsars and compact X-ray sources and , finally , cosmology and big-bang physics . |
| 16 | If they had not , then the greater part of cosmology and theoretical physics would have had to be junked as so much useless scribbling . |
| 17 | And yet he was not doctrinaire about it , having declared on the contrary ( as early as 1917 , significantly in a review of Eliot 's Prufrock and Other Observations ) : |
| 18 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 19 | The course aims to enhance practical skills and to provide an intellectual and philosophical perspective on the activity of translation . |
| 20 | Increasingly in the later eighteenth century it was felt , at least in intellectual and opinion-forming circles , that monarchy was on trial , that kings must now provide not merely good government but progressive government . |
| 21 | If you have an organisation that is made up mostly of these two , they 're very good at planning and having ideas ; they have wonderful intellectual and logical discussions . |
| 22 | Aside from those who were involved in intellectual and political movements it was an open question how far mental health experts would be received into the bosom of the target population . |
| 23 | This was a telling comment on Francoism 's concept of " normality " and , particularly , on its view of the intellectual and political capacity of women : men who were not the head of the household in which they lived and all unmarried women were disenfranchized , even if they had reached the age of majority . |
| 24 | Its existence in the form we know is a guarantee of intellectual and political freedom . ’ |
| 25 | 2 From the mid seventies , the New Right came into intellectual and political prominence . |
| 26 | What new intellectual and political agenda does this reorientation imply ? |
| 27 | She also makes the crucial point that it is wrong to attribute it to the mass of black people , finding it most marked among some intellectual and political leaders , who also obscure the central roles played by lesbians and gays in black communities . |
| 28 | They participated more fully in the intellectual and political life of their time — some argued that they participated too much — and reflected their society 's values , again , perhaps , too much if the criticisms of the ‘ social gospel ’ were accepted . |
| 29 | Curriculum reform gathered momentum , and with it the confidence that — with the right intellectual and political support — teaching and learning could be revolutionized . |
| 30 | She does not know much about world politics ; she undertakes her ‘ strange Odyssean intellectual and political adventure into the soul and psyche of this unknown leader ’ in , she says , ‘ a systematic journalistic manner ’ . |