Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her personality was drab , earnest and humourless and her appearance calculatedly unattractive . |
| 2 | Richard Smith 's suggestion is that the GMC should ‘ investigate treatments offered by doctors that may be risky and whose value has not been scientifically proved . ’ |
| 3 | Money was not lacking : George Cadbury promised £600 a year for five years beginning in 1895 and his brother , Richard , agreed to do the same . |
| 4 | Aghredien , who played for SARU and is classified as coloured ( his father was Malayan and his mother Norwegian ) , has been working hand in hand with Bill Cunningham — a back-row forward , who played for the Springboks on their 1959 internal tour — to develop rugby in townships around Port Elizabeth for nearly two decades . |
| 5 | Hugh Despenser the younger had already petitioned the king on the grounds that the charges against him were erroneous and his condemnation illegal , particularly because so few prelates were present in the parliament which gave judgement . |
| 6 | The tiny samples of lacquer were progressively heated to about 350o C , ionised and their decomposition products analysed in a quadrupole mass spectrometer . |
| 7 | They brought one , and he said to them , ‘ Whose head is this and whose inscription ? ’ |
| 8 | What could be the grounds for this and their success ? |
| 9 | We 'd look to advice from the Ministry of Agriculture on this and their view to m their their willingness to make a positive contribution to the development of the e er assessment in terms of the er erm the availability and distribution of the the best and most versatile land . |
| 10 | She did not understand why they should be doing this and her failure to understand reminded her of something . |
| 11 | Julie had bathed on the previous evening and in view of this and her discomfort it was agreed that shaving and skin preparation would be carried out in theatre . |
| 12 | Usually , a pregnant goat will not come on heat , but there are exceptions to both this and its converse . |
| 13 | This and its position , perched on steep ground yet effectively sheltered by the hillside behind , make it one of Lakeland 's finest climbing crags . |
| 14 | The proposed change involved the deletion of this and its substitution by the following : |
| 15 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 16 | ‘ This and your land , ’ Loppe had added , after a silence . |
| 17 | If your current account is with Barclays , you can easily arrange for sums to be transferred between this and your Capital Advantage account . |
| 18 | Forget this and your report will fail . |
| 19 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 20 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 21 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 22 | This and his expression of heavy-lidded scepticism gave him more the appearance of an Old Etonian stockbroker than a policeman . |
| 23 | He commented specifically on this and his use of the Faulkner quotation by saying , ‘ When the writer has some urgency to speak , the subject matter becomes almost irrelevant . ’ |
| 24 | I told my father and mother about this and my father said : ‘ Is there anything that you lack ? |
| 25 | The choice of the most appropriate and satisfying degree course can be a perplexing one , but the University is aware of this and our degree course structures allow students to keep options open until the end of first year or later . |
| 26 | Right , so this is if we incorporate expectations in our model of supply response alright , so instead of saying that the the desired level of supply instead of saying that , we say it 's actually this right , if we actually incorporate expectations specifically alright , then we get a supply response model alright , like this and our hypothesis , y'know cos we do n't know how expectations are formed , right , economics ca n't tell us anything about how expectations are formed are they rational , are they naive , are they adaptive , who knows , nobody knows alright . |
| 27 | Having topped the charts worldwide and walked away with almost every conceivable music industry honour , Neneh Cherry has nevertheless kept her head screwed on , her priorities clear and her demeanour refreshingly calm and unpretentious . |
| 28 | At least her skin was clear and her neck had n't started to sag . |
| 29 | He was able to give a pagan friend power of attorney to act on his behalf , and so found an elegant way of keeping his conscience clear and his standing with the church unaffected . |
| 30 | He sent Rizzardi clear and his cross was missed by Brian Kilcline , enabling Capocchiano to put it away from close in . |