Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not a retrospective or prescriptive but a descriptive process and will allow the citizens of this country to measure the standards of service that they receive from their local authorities . |
| 2 | The attributes of any volume which is empty or full after a hard copy run may be changed , with the exception of the volume name and charge code ; the minimum fill mark of partially filled volumes may be revised between hard copy runs . |
| 3 | ‘ My life with him was short , ’ his wife said , ‘ but clear and bright as a crystal . ’ |
| 4 | The sky became as clear and grey as a mountain rock-pool . |
| 5 | Despite that , she married Simon Dale , an architect who was losing his sight , a man who was ‘ interesting and different and a very good architect . |
| 6 | Varying the textures within this sort of monochromatic colour scheme can be just as interesting and lively as a scheme full of more obvious contrasts . |
| 7 | His reply was as light and harmless as a butterfly . |
| 8 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 9 | He is most relaxed when he is in the converted barn in Devon that is now his painting studio ; it is stone-floored and filled with light and quiet as a church . |
| 10 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 11 | When I get to the road , with St James 's Park beyond , as fresh and green as an early summer salad , I stop and turn . |
| 12 | The barn was as high and big as a huge hall , an earthen floor strewn with finely scattered straw . |
| 13 | Johnny 's ring … old and valuable and a family heirloom . |
| 14 | Adolescents are going to be embarrassed and ashamed if a teacher suggests that their dialect , which is part of their identity , must be radically changed . |
| 15 | Long-distance travel is a fever dream where time and mood slip out of control leaving one unexpectedly early or late delighted or depressed until a mosaic of tiny things builds a flat earth beneath you again . |
| 16 | So we went and had and there was a little space , you know normal bit bigger than average and a little hooked thing and it opened up and down came some steps and we went up with trepidation I must say . |
| 17 | The careers and higher education information is dynamic , interactive , specialist , comprehensive and time-saving and an excellent aid to school staff whose time is at a premium . |
| 18 | " The fact that you ca n't take criticism without becoming as personal and spiteful as a neurotic girl is an example of what I mean . " |
| 19 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 20 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
| 21 | Behind him the minister stood as straight and shadowy as a cypress tree . |
| 22 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 23 | Through his translucent skin showed the blue veins , his insides as visible and vulnerable as a tiny transparent shrimp . |
| 24 | She felt as if she were suspended over a chasm between a past that was dark and terrifying and a future that inexorably beckoned . |
| 25 | The Anarkali was dark and quiet and a lot of the light was coming from the candle between us . |
| 26 | Things got worse after that , when I met Miranda : as dark and austere as a Welsh mining valley and as much fun as Chapel on Sunday . |
| 27 | If all these gorgeous chaps are going to rally to the standard when we stick it in the salt pot , then I , for one , am going to be as fragrant and petal-soft as a lady in a soap commercial . |
| 28 | As frail and pitiful as a moth in spring . |
| 29 | Erm it 's obviously right and proper that a local planning authority if it 's releasing green field sites has to justify why those sites should be released . |
| 30 | What he wanted was the main force , mobile and sudden and a prize fit for his steel . |