Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One gets the impression that accountants are always foolish or dishonest and accountancy itself a waste of time . |
| 2 | An argument over which bulls are best ; British or Canadian and American is causing quite a rumpus . |
| 3 | The same applies to gang rape , rape of the particularly old or young and rape accompanied by a non-injurious assault calculated to degrade the victim — such as urination or defecation upon her . |
| 4 | Gaelic is Hebrew but no one knew this until Pitman invented shorthand and then without the vowels it was clear that Gaelic and Hebrew were the same . |
| 5 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 6 | Low , clear and cold and sport patchy . |
| 7 | I am sure we all know horses that are exceptions to them — thoroughbred chestnut mares that are calm and placid and bay cobs who are nervy and excitable . |
| 8 | They include a major programme in computer-aided process engineering , with substantial support ( about £2m ) from SERC and industry ; catalysis and related noncatalytic gas-solid reactions ; new systems for refrigeration , heat pumping and energy recovery ; solids processing , and gas-solid transport systems ; bioreactors for the culture of mammalian hybridoma cells in the production of monoclonal antibodies ; membrane ultrafiltration and downstream separations , hydrodynamic and mass and heat transport effects in biological fluids ; flow visualisation and velocimetry techniques and process applications of robots , vision systems and robot technology . |
| 9 | There 's a brown and red and gold beast called a roucaou ; it 's a bit like the famous rascasse which goes into the bouillabaisse , but larger . |
| 10 | The primary tumour had allele losses on chromosome 5 shown by Lambda MS8 and chromosome 17 shown by p144-D6 , while the second tumour did not have allele loss on chromosome 5 , but had additional allele losses on chromosomes 12 and 17 and rearrangement on chromosome 1 . |
| 11 | Everything was tangled and confused and fast-changing . |
| 12 | ‘ He was so good and loyal and honest and brave and sweet and kind . |
| 13 | I think one can put forward fairly persuasive arguments that there are no life forms a good deal more advanced than ourselves in our galaxy , simply because I believe that social and environmental and sort of curiosity value factors would have led them to reveal their presence in various ways . |
| 14 | ‘ British and European and World citizen , but also member of Universe and Galaxarian ’ ? |
| 15 | Four different parts of a plot can be viewed at once on the screen , the X and/or Y scaled between linear and logarithmic and size of the plotted data points changed . |
| 16 | She 's sensible and hardworking and kind — I know you 'll like her . ’ |
| 17 | Another , less charitable , view suggests that because of lack of ministerial direction — occasioned in part because there were no fewer than four different Secretaries of State between 1972 and 1978 and lack of consultative machinery between the DES and those most closely affected in the colleges , little attempt was made to anticipate events which should have been foreseen much earlier . |
| 18 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 19 | She was charming and gentle and life had not fitted her to cope with the forty assorted females now in her care . |
| 20 | Now as we saw at the last council meeting , where a very right and proper and honest and law abiding council and we do n't want to create a situation in which people are encouraged to break the law . |
| 21 | The objectives are scientific and adventurous and offer over-18s a chance to spend six weeks in deep rainforest between July and November . |
| 22 | Béroff 's tone throughout the set is appropriately crisp and brilliant and set earns a most enthusiastic recommendation . ( ) |
| 23 | Then , calling for his ‘ Orangeand ’ , known to the faithful as orange and tequila , Botham raced ahead . |
| 24 | It is possible that secretory and motor mechanisms contribute to carcinoid diarrhoea , and the effects of 5HT and its antagonists on both processes deserve further study . |
| 25 | Side corridors and composite vehicles ( for example first and standard or first and guard 's van ) were still common . |
| 26 | There 's a fine line between clever and stupid and Warrant are nowhere near it . |
| 27 | There 's a fine line between clever and stupid and Warrant are nowhere near it . |
| 28 | Carrie thought she looked beautiful : so warm and friendly and kind . |
| 29 | Warm and soft and animal |
| 30 | They all got hotter and redder and shinier and fatter . |