Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her personality was drab , earnest and humourless and her appearance calculatedly unattractive . |
| 2 | Secondly , he ignored folk memory of the English and the noble Scottish and their depredations : à propos , a story came to light much later , and recurs in local annals and in the works of many Johnsonian students |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | At least her skin was clear and her neck had n't started to sag . |
| 9 | His mind would become totally clear and his reactions devoid of any hesitation . |
| 10 | If , while we are praying for the Lord to do a new thing , we are failing to take action in areas where his intentions are perfectly clear and his resources for their implementation guaranteed , then he is unlikely to respond to our appeals to do more . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He sent Rizzardi clear and his cross was missed by Brian Kilcline , enabling Capocchiano to put it away from close in . |
| 13 | But Annadale levelled in the 41st minute when Chris Jackson sent John Stephens clear and his cross was turned into the net by a Western defender . |
| 14 | For people with a profound hearing loss there are bound to be times when speechreading seems to be very hard going , but even in the dark you are still on the way if your aim is clear and your courage bright . |
| 15 | Because FI , in the wake of Renault , was shifting towards the turbo engine and because McLaren was beginning to develop the TAG/ Porsche engine , 1982 was something of a transitional year at the team and both Niki and his team-mate John Watson suffered in the results table , Watson actually finishing ahead of Niki in the championship , the first time he had ever been upstaged within his own team . |
| 16 | Human resources since 1900 ( Professor R Floud , Birkbeck College , London ) : ageing and its implications for savings , pensions , housing , health care and education ; health , morbidity and productivity ; secular changes in the structure of the labour force and technological change , unemployment , training , and labour mobility ; economic influences on and effects of family formation and the size and structure of the population ; historical perspectives on the operation of labour markets ; long-run problems of the welfare state . |
| 17 | The new research project will investigate the roots of this adaptability in personal and work life in late middle age , and how men and women at this stage of life view their own ageing and their future . |
| 18 | In doing so it is inevitable that some of the negative aspects of ageing and our attitudes to it are stressed . |
| 19 | We seem increasingly able to talk about sex , but wholly unable to talk about our own ageing and our feelings about it . |
| 20 | Should the message be unfamiliar and its manner of delivery unappealing or otherwise distant from the recipient , its relevance or value are unlikely to be accepted . |
| 21 | She 's a good-looking woman , but she 's jumpy and she does'na have the confidence . |
| 22 | ‘ When he stepped up , the storm lantern threw its uneven yellow light up under this face , making the hollows in his cheeks look carved and his eyes enormous . ’ |
| 23 | It was the first time her father had hit her and he looked upset , but suddenly she was very calm and her voice was steady as she said , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 24 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 25 | The task of teaching " the charity pupils ' was entrusted to assistant teachers , whose teaching skills were mostly rudimentary and whose lot was hard and underpaid . |
| 26 | You 've stopped smoking and your blood sugar is consistently within the normal range since you started the self-care programme six years ago . |
| 27 | Now she 's unemployed and her husband has tuberculosis and they live on supplementary benefit with their two children . |
| 28 | For the unemployed and their families struggling on the edge of starvation and of eviction from their homes , the great failure of the Hoover administration was its consistent opposition to the provision of Federal relief . |
| 29 | Standby for Unemployed and their families 50p ( on production of UB40 ) |
| 30 | Briefly , the field is the total event together with the purposive activity of the speaker or writer ; the mode is the function of the text in the event , including spoken or written , extempore or prepared and its genre or rhetorical mode such as narrative , didactic , persuasive , phatic communion ; the tenor refers to the type of ro∘le-interaction , the set of relevant social relations among the participants . |