Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we recover more of a text 's historicity , recapture the lost agencies which originally motivated its emergence and come to understand more about the conditions of its emergence , we may find a cultural presence strange and apparently remote from our own . |
| 2 | As she was just under six foot tall and very slim , wore her dark hair closely cropped , and her face though free of make-up was not unattractive , the result was certainly striking . |
| 3 | A neighbour said : ‘ Suzannah is about six foot tall and very attractive . |
| 4 | Mrs Ivory is about 5ft 3ins tall and very slim with Oriental features and long black hair . |
| 5 | It hopes to achieve sales of £1m by March 1993 and then double sales until the turn of the century . |
| 6 | Again it 's only about four foot high and about four foot wide and a beautiful flower , a beautiful old fashioned type flower and a new , new variety of er of shrub rose and of course again it 's repeat flowering so they go on right through the season and both of them their fragrance is beautiful . |
| 7 | For the remaining simulation with doubled CO 2 and radiatively interactive ozone the PSCs existed well into April . |
| 8 | Finally , with both doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( Fig. 1 d ) there was a marked change in the evolution and a stratospheric warming no longer occurred . |
| 9 | In contrast , with doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( run 4 ) the mean column amount decreased steadily after day 80 and by the end of the simulation was 150DU lower than in the other simulations . |
| 10 | Again , the behaviour in three of the simulations is very similar ( only run 2 is shown ) whereas with doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( run 4 ) an ozone minimum of under 200DU occurred in mid-April . |
| 11 | In contrast with doubled CO 2 and fully interactive ozone ( Fig. 4d ) , there is a clearly defined minimum in high latitudes whilst the maximum ozone amount is about 10% lower than in the other simulations . |
| 12 | Medical advances in recent years have made male and female sterilisation simpler and more acceptable to many people . |
| 13 | The Discus are about 15 months old and about four to five inches long . |
| 14 | ‘ Here' e is five months old and hardly any bigger than when he was born . ’ |
| 15 | He designs careful and often elaborate questionnaires which he or his assistants administer to statistically significant sample groups in the population under investigation . |
| 16 | The reality is a good deal messier and more risky for those managing the change . |
| 17 | When Ivan IV had himself crowned as Tsar or Caesar of All the Russias in 1547 , he took care to combine the claims of his predecessors as Grand Dukes of Muscovy to be Protectors of Orthodoxy , following the fall of Constantinople , with his own position as heir to the territorial gains made by his immediate predecessors Ivan III and Vasily III . |
| 18 | It was however , very labour intensive and therefore expensive in term staff hours in operating the system and particularly in issuing overdue notices . |
| 19 | The store manager said he found the new technology more labour intensive and less flexible . |
| 20 | Keep blusher soft and very gentle . |
| 21 | Her skin was ice-white and flawless , her eyes large and luminously black , fringed by reed-thick lashes . |
| 22 | Gradually the streets became broader , the squares larger and less crowded with traders . |
| 23 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 24 | He sustained a minor bullet wound on Good Friday 1917 and more serious gas injuries on or about 10 September 1917 during the third battle of Ypres ( Passchendaele ) . |
| 25 | In the time of Henry VII he had stripped the whole of Fife of oak and fir trees in order to build a huge man-of-war , the Great St Michael , and had given hospitality to the impostor Perkin Warbeck as son of Edward IV and therefore rightful king of England . |
| 26 | Erm the element of control side of it , is extremely frustrating and have have been hinted at by previous speakers to see what are in effect regular and truly massive retail operations going on without development control , without the development of any kind of highway controls which is a county council matter is fully my argue frustrating . |
| 27 | A long article in Le Monde , which bore a cartoon showing Mr Kohl getting up from a dinner table to join some friends , leaving Mr Mitterrand alone and rather forlorn , the commentator wrote : ‘ The ‘ special relationship ’ between France and Germany is such that all foreign policy questions have an impact on it . |
| 28 | Gareth Johnstone safe and well last night |
| 29 | You 'll just have to hope that they 're a great deal kinder and more charitable than you are , James . |
| 30 | And the river Nive , which is a good deal slimmer and perfectly limpid up here , near to its source in the watershed , flows discreetly through the middle of the town , dividing it into two quite equal parts . |