Example sentences of "[noun] and [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Whitehouse herself has never sought to deny the intellectual and theological debt she owes to the Oxford Group and the MRA , but has been quick to silence those critics who have suggested the existence of more formal links between the NVALA and MRA . |
| 2 | The men of the Somerset Levels paid a tithe called ‘ moor-penny ’ ; their cattle suffered from a disease called ‘ moor-evil ’ ; and in every pond and damp corner you will still see the jerking movements of the moorhen . |
| 3 | In these days of double-glazing and central heating it quite quickly exceeds safety levels , especially on the ground floor where it can be trapped beneath the floor boards . |
| 4 | This was to be the sixth show organised by the Priestfields & Ormesby Knitting Club and this year they were hoping to use the proceeds to boost club funds as well as make a donation to Kirkleatham Special School in Redcar . |
| 5 | The ultimate Cat Woman figure looks brilliant in slim-fitting Lycra and body-flattering leather You should not be waif-like and skinny but strong , taut and well formed . |
| 6 | The irony and cool eye she brought to the circus was sometimes lost in the Sturm und Drang generated by her partner 's effortless flair for publicity . |
| 7 | Grant that they may always be confident of your presence with them and of their oneness with the whole family of Your church ; and grant that with one mind and one voice we may all worship You , O Christ , who with the Father and the Holy Spirit , reigns for evermore . |
| 8 | That break and special tie it at the back of there ? |
| 9 | De Niro is always worth watching and here the mixture of confusion and hurt pride he brings to his character 's plight is very convincing . |
| 10 | She kept getting bones in her mouth and each time she took one out O'Hara appeared to be looking in her direction . |
| 11 | Each morning before I leave for work , I bid a cordial ( ? ) farewell to the one perched on my roof and each night I count my fish to see if he 's penetrated the net I hurriedly stretched over the pool . |
| 12 | Will you help us provide the basic hygiene and nutritional teaching they so desperately need ? |
| 13 | But towards dawn the fever broke , and after a breakfast of tea and warm bread I felt better . |
| 14 | Choosing the right diet is the key , and to make it easy for you we have devised a three-part series , Slim Plan ( page 81 ) , backed by all the knowledge , research and thorough testing you have come to expect from the Good Housekeeping Institute . |
| 15 | But it is by no means difficult if one has a procedure for social research and this procedure we shall now consider by working from an empirical approach to enquiry . |
| 16 | Campra stands out for keeping his airs relatively short , and for the expressive weight and dramatic emphasis he placed on recitative . |
| 17 | Plus I lost one stone in weight and this time I have not put the weight back on again . |
| 18 | Like the air force 's B-2 bomber and F-117 fighter it was to use " stealth " materials and design in order to minimize the degree to which it would be subject to radar detection . |
| 19 | In the dark and freezing mist he could not see ten yards . |
| 20 | ‘ If all I 'm going to get in the future is more talk and less music they can forget it . ’ |
| 21 | As a writer , reviewer and professional artist I have accumulated a collection of over 40 videos . |
| 22 | Everyone laughed and clapped and then Oliver used a whole heap of long words and each time he used one we all whooped . |
| 23 | A couple of weeks later we had an indoor match in Budapest against Hungary and this time I won , 21.3 to Ade 's 21.6 , with some top Hungarians trailing behind . |
| 24 | ‘ Through frothy spring and sun-drenched summer we returned to play in secret . |
| 25 | I hope that I may have encouraged some of my readers to use the garter carriage and next month I will be exploring stitch patterns and ways of combining these into interesting garments . |
| 26 | ( We now have Harris House , a fitting and lasting memorial we hope . ) |
| 27 | Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply . |
| 28 | You may remember that in the Morecambe and Wise show he wrote six plays a day and inflicted parts in them on long suffering celebrity guests ! |
| 29 | The pale yellow skirt and sleeveless top she wore seemed , somehow , to emphasise her fragility . |
| 30 | Be prepared to train twice as hard on your weaker side and each time you feel fed-up through lack of progress , switch to your stronger side to give yourself a boost . |