Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if I am wrong and think of a dozen times , it is still dreadful that somebody so involved in the game is not out there watching the guys . |
| 2 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 3 | So often compelled to be distant , at close quarters she is frank , informal , funny , direct and possessed of an uncanny ability to charm the least star-struck . |
| 4 | The rooms , painted green , were dark and damp and smelled of alien growths . |
| 5 | The crypt was damp and smelled of the occupation of the past six nights . |
| 6 | The chapel at St Mary 's Priory of the Little Sisters of Pity was cold and damp and smelled of candlegrease and incense . |
| 7 | Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony appears to have fully emerged from the shameful obscurity it once endured to become one of the most popular and recorded of all Romantic symphonies . |
| 8 | And gambol with the natives : penguins and southern seals , charming and unafraid of mankind in this frozen and beautiful world . |
| 9 | Tigers are more specialised and demanding of habitat and prey requirements than leopards . |
| 10 | Mrs Ivory became unsettled and talked of returning home but her husband , a 39-year-old unemployed surveyor , never suspected she would take Chatchai . |
| 11 | She has also a teething baby , pinched and veined and smelling of milk . |
| 12 | MacMillan 's The Burrow , based on the real diary of Anne Frank , was possibly the most explicit and moving of all his efforts to depict reality in terms of dance ( see page 30 ) . |
| 13 | The cafe was warm and smelling of fish scales . |
| 14 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 15 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 16 | There had been a time when she had thought of going with Roman and dreamed of dancing held tightly in his arms , but now she doubted she would go at all . |
| 17 | Experimentally the system is extremely simple and consists of a device rather like a geiger counter filled with an inert gas and containing the atoms of the element in question . |
| 18 | The first method is relatively simple and consists of comparing the number of known to unknown users amongst individuals in the snowball sampling frame itself . |
| 19 | Etching vessels should be shallow , tightly-closing and made of polythene or similar soft plastic . |
| 20 | Much more so than the place she had visited in London , which had been dark and smelled of incense . |
| 21 | Politicians , once in government , tend to favour a budgetary system based on legal checks and balances , rather than one that is non-partisan and consists of social checks and balances . |
| 22 | A small plastic bag , rather sticky and smelling of chemicals . |
| 23 | As the Note makes clear , the working and winning of aggregates is causing increasing public concern in terms of its serious and irreversible impact on the environment , and on the quality of life of communities in close proximity to the activity . |
| 24 | As the Note makes clear , the working and winning of aggregates is causing increasing public concern in terms of its serious and irreversible impact on the environment , and on the quality of life of communities in close proximity to the activity . |
| 25 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |
| 26 | It was found that although a four-week tutorial programme had been prepared , the children in the mainstream school were far more receptive and accepting of the situation and could not see any reason for delaying the child 's integration . |
| 27 | Alright , we might be excessively attentive when it comes to the fit and feel of things . |
| 28 | So I hope you 've all thought of one word , right , if somebody else has said it before you you 've got ta think quick and think of something else . |
| 29 | When he wrote about seals , as in The People of the Sea ; and when he discussed the personality of the hare ; and when , in books such as Woodbrook and Nairn in Darkness and Light , he traced the fading and departing of old ways — he might have been writing poems or novels . |
| 30 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |