Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and dangerous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what is the strange and dangerous problem ? ’ |
| 2 | Bathsheba and Gabriel could only stare , and tremble at the strange and dangerous beauty of the storm . |
| 3 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 4 | When he spoke , Ceauşescu emphasized his own working-class origins as well as his recognition of the hard and dangerous life of the miners . |
| 5 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 6 | We should not criticise the French when the rough and dangerous play on this side of the Channel is rife in games from the very top level downwards . |
| 7 | ‘ Enter ! ’ boomed the deep and dangerous voice of Miss Trunchbull . |
| 8 | We the undersigned being the residents committee for Hertfordshire County Council bring forward and promptly carry out plans for the through the village especially in view of the notorious and dangerous traffic conditions and designation of the A four two five one through the village as the southern entrance to from the A forty one bypass road . |
| 9 | ‘ It appears that the Barnes lawyers and , by inference , the National Gallery of Art did not want to hear from me any comments questioning the indecent and dangerous haste in the timetable for the exhibition ’ , Stolow wrote in a 29 March letter to a member of Congress . |
| 10 | The Elector Counts of Ostland live on the north eastern border of the Empire beyond which lie the wild and dangerous Troll Country and the Northern Wastes . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a subtle and dangerous anti-Zionism at work here , ’ said a Munich Jew who insisted on anonymity . |
| 12 | Let us then [ … ] suppose a great increase in the general demand for fish , such for instance as might arise from a disease affecting farm stock , by which meat was made a dear and dangerous food for several years together . |
| 13 | In the cavalry skirmishes against Kalmyk , Kirgiz or Mongol horsemen , who almost lived in the saddle and were ‘ a numerous , highly manoeuvrable and well armed foe , a serious and dangerous enemy ’ , Russian firepower proved of very little advantage . |
| 14 | Tunnelling was a laborious and dangerous job . |
| 15 | Slinging the odd punch is part of the game and the recent imprisonment of a prominent Welsh player for a blatant and dangerous assault was criticized by most players and supporters . |
| 16 | ‘ Skylark ’ is a dark and dangerous love story , where the most dangerous place in the world is between a man and a woman . |
| 17 | The Empire is a dark and dangerous place . |
| 18 | The statesman as artist — God knows it is a dubious and dangerous idea , but to get rid of it Probably involves demoting statesmen and aspiring statesmen from the privileged position that they still enjoy in public estimation . |
| 19 | When old nationalisms come to the surface , having been suppressed for decades , it can be in a pure and dangerous form . |
| 20 | He could provide the key to a vicious and dangerous attacker . |
| 21 | She sat with the blood thudding in her ears , just as it used to do when her mother began a tirade , and prayed for the impossible , for the carriage to be overturned , for it to be the wrong night , for her to develop a sudden and dangerous illness . |
| 22 | Totally to oust the court 's supervisory jurisdiction in a field where ex hypothesi the citizen can have no right to be consulted is a draconian and dangerous step indeed . |
| 23 | A large portion of the world 's population sees Marxism as an illuminating and liberating body of thought ; our own area of the globe in the West sees Marxism as a false and dangerous dogma . |
| 24 | Her father began to turn a deep and dangerous red . |
| 25 | She felt like a convalescent after a long and dangerous illness , her strength returning , her enthusiasm for life rekindled . |
| 26 | Polybius concludes with a Homeric line which he would never have used for Rome , however suitable the adaptation might have been : " To Egypt is a long and dangerous road " ( Odys. 4.483 ) . |
| 27 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 28 | Breaking in a war boar can be a long and dangerous business , but fortunately Orcs have thick skulls and do n't feel pain much . |
| 29 | Everyone who has watched a loved one go through the experience of a major and dangerous operation will understand what the next few weeks were like . |
| 30 | Without impugning the motives of any believer in this , I point out that it reeks of a vile and dangerous racism . |