Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] and [art] " in BNC.

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1 The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap .
2 A minute later the red Jaguar slides up with my briefcase intact and the girl smiling prettily .
3 Now his club 's tighthead , he has gone out of this way to improve his scrummaging technique with specialist advice from among others , his boss , Sandy Carmichael , the 50-times capped Scottish and Lions tighthead Iain Milne ( ‘ immensely helpful ’ ) and Jim Telfer ( ‘ he is just the kind of coach I need because I can be a bit lazy and the fact that he just keeps at you all the time was very good for me ’ ) .
4 Clive , 28 , from Middlesbrough , Cleveland , said : ‘ I like a good sing-song when I 'm having a bath , but I do get a bit loud and the neighbours ca n't hear the telly .
5 With the change from revue complete and the rest from ‘ Carry On ’ beginning , Cross took it upon himself to ‘ bully him ’ .
6 However that may be , there were apparently no serious doubts about Part 2 and the GEORGE shot of 8 May , 1951 , in the Pacific showed that a thermonuclear reaction could be produced by a fission explosion — although in this shot an enormous fission explosion was required to ignite a relatively small amount of thermonuclear fuel .
7 Cindy is a farm maid , at the beck and call of her wicked , snobbish guardians , with a travelling shoe salesman Ginger as her Prince Charming and the local lady of the manor as the Fairy Godmother .
8 The Blackrock Club never put a foot wrong and the host association — the Bowling League of Ireland — ‘ also ’ played their part in making it a worthwhile championship .
9 Also , a detailed treatment of radiative heating and cooling takes account of the concentration of CO 2 and the distribution of ozone .
10 Cells were incubated at 37°C in 95% O 2 and 5% CO 2 and the medium was changed every 2 days .
11 Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel .
12 The red line represents freon eleven and the green line freon twelve .
13 Now to weight that and the next one is respite an short stay beds as you mentioned .
14 The term ‘ bow shock ’ arises because of certain similarities between Figure 9.2 and the conditions at the bow of a boat when it is moving through water .
15 It corresponds to the line in figure 6.11 and the top line in figure 6.10 .
16 Four pounds we 've taken is frequent cash and a pound each and a pound at dinner time .
17 John became a justice of the Common Bench in Easter term 1275 and the formal records of the court show him acting as a justice continuously down to the end of 1289 .
18 Two texts , Shakespeare 's Sonnet 129 and the opening of Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park , are analysed in all chapters , except in the one on pragmatics ( Chapter 6 ) and in the conclusion ( Chapter 8 ) .
19 The textbase STATLT holding the statutes for England has been developed and refined in a series of projects since 1980 and at the start of the project described here already provided a very detailed definition of the data structure [ 1 ] , full text-searching facilities , symbolic addressing in the manner of Figure 2 and a multi-valued attribute marg-note-xref in each text unit to record cross-references made to other parts of the text [ 23 ] .
20 Figure 2 and the accompanying box show how shoulder angle is defined .
21 Thus the prophecy of chapter 2 and the dark words of God of chapter 3 find fulfilment , our expectations are overturned , and the elders of Israel are taught that their God is beyond their manipulation .
22 So a further part of the prophecy of chapter 2 and the divine judgement of chapter 3 comes to its dark fruition .
23 In agreement with this idea several groups have recently shown that this site does indeed represent a functional binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 12–14 ) and we have demonstrated that it can bind both the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and a novel octamer binding protein expressed in cervical cells ( 15 ) .
24 Hence the two base changes in the octamer-like sequence in HPV 6/11 compared to HPV 16/18 render it non-functional as a binding site both for the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and the cervical octamer binding protein .
25 Ten runners-up will receive a three kilo bag of Omega Tasty and a lead .
26 The algebraic laws , infinitary rule 2 and the rule of substitution in expressions provide a sound and complete system for deciding the equivalence of programs .
27 went through the Revenue Account and the Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December 1992 , which were printed on pages 13 and 14 of The Embalmer , Vol.36 , No 2 , Spring 1993 and the Finance Report printed on page 11. drew the attention of the Members to the growth in the number of registered students from 186 in June 1988 to 380 at present , and the consequent increase in registration fee income .
28 Data General 's first use of the 88110 will be in a workstation , followed by 200 to 400 MIPS-rated mid-range AViiON systems in spring 1993 and an 800 MIPS-rated rack-mount machine by the end of next year .
29 For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water .
30 If direct access capacity is a limitation , a loss of 15 — 20 per cent of space will still compare well with other file organizations ( see Chapter 7 and the calculations of packing density for randomly organized direct files later in this chapter ) .
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