Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These 11 large folio books , designated ‘ The Lawrence Notebooks ’ , were compiled over 30 years from the 1890s and contain detailed notes for a comprehensive history of stage scenery and technical appliances , together with lives of the most prominent scenic artists . |
| 32 | Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 . |
| 33 | where the evidence is highly complex or specialized and raises difficult questions of evaluation . |
| 34 | Anthropology adopts a broad comparative perspective , drawing on both historical and cross cultural evidence : parts of medical anthropology narrow the focus to beliefs about the nature , cause , and treatment of illness within specific cultures . |
| 35 | An abundance of white marble may suggest luxury , but marble is porous and needs careful cleaning to avoid dinginess , while marble floors are icy to bare feet . |
| 36 | Both submarines were nuclear powered and carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 37 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 38 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 39 | Therefore the plant should be grown in a mixture of coarse sand and some peat or bulb fibre to keep it dwarf , low-growing and encourage many plant clumps , which form an excellent carpet of bright green flora . |
| 40 | Outstanding among these were Ana Maria Pacheco 's ‘ Head ’ ( lot 171 ) , a totemic carved and painted wooden head with real teeth which sold for £4,500 ( $6,750 ; est. £2,000–3,000 ) . |
| 41 | For around £400 the lucky purchaser can harangue members of his family with sermons from the hexagonal pine pulpit or , for £65 — £80 , sit in his favourite armchair beneath a carved and painted royal crest used in the courtroom scenes from Rumpole of the Bailey . |
| 42 | They rate themselves as very understanding and believe that women also value shyness . |
| 43 | Glasgow District Council , the Scottish Office , Greater Glasgow Health Board and the Central Government Health Brigade launched their ‘ let's all go out jogging , stop smoking and eat brown bread ’ health promotion campaigns . |
| 44 | So I thought I should try to stop smoking and lose some weight . ’ |
| 45 | They make their heads less head-like and wear false eyes on their tails . |
| 46 | Even though the gap between clerical and lay religious intellectuals has closed , with clergy being left behind in some areas , the clerics remain the true cognoscenti in religious matters , and are expected to be so by the laity . |
| 47 | Time spent in careful planning at the beginning of a test can make the test more efficient and economical and save much time in its execution . |
| 48 | Once the investigation of processes embraces such high-magnitude events it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish what is timeless and timebound physical geography . |
| 49 | Obviously full livery is the most expensive , but if your work is particularly demanding and involves erratic hours it may be the only option . |
| 50 | The homework was interesting and demanded more investigation and some discussion with parents : she - the teacher — provided some useful clues for those who could not find names in an encyclopaedia . |
| 51 | The aim is to make something people can instantly get excited about but which also stands up to close analysis in terms of being musically interesting and having some kind of content and meaning … ’ |
| 52 | By the winter our squads were carrying out very interesting and involved military manoeuvres throughout the area covered by our group of villages . |
| 53 | The second innovation is more interesting and raises wider issues . |
| 54 | Of these two , sentence ( i ) was favoured : The justifications offered by the groups who chose ( i ) as the crucial opening sentence were interesting and merit some consideration . |
| 55 | Indeed , Redcar is not pretty nor twee , but at least it is honest , down-to-earth and rejects shallow affection . |
| 56 | By Mr Reich 's account , he remains a cheerful and charming fellow — a nice antidote to surly and mean rich men like Howard Hughes and J. Paul Getty . |
| 57 | The bivvy bag is ultra lightweight and waterproof and has high wicking qualities . |
| 58 | A nocturnal sleeping unit of unprocessed cereal material , an exterior segment of medium calorie farinaceous comestible and attrited fragmentary clothing units . |
| 59 | Fig 3 Beginner 's sail : easy to uphaul , light and offering good control in light winds . |
| 60 | This first pattern represents heaven and light and has 18 movements . |