Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb -s] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 2 | The plaintiff is aged 30 and has a normal expectation of life . |
| 3 | Just to go out into the night can give a sense of this ; night is not empty darkness — the night can be warm , or stormy , still or windy , and the darkness is charged by this and has a changing life of its own . |
| 4 | In the perspective of this book , the contrast with traditional dialectological method , and with data-gathering in orthodox historical linguistics , is clear and requires no further comment . |
| 5 | Yet again , the idea is that once created the watch is self-sufficient and requires no further help from its divine craftsperson . |
| 6 | It is the most demanding and requires a high commitment of all staff involved . |
| 7 | It is extremely light and has a sensible gear ratio of 4:1 . |
| 8 | It tastes brown and leaves a little dust crunching between the teeth . |
| 9 | Or was the Leader of the Opposition wrong and does the hon. Gentleman agree with that ? |
| 10 | Yet it never seems to have occurred to politicians that maybe the whole system is wrong and needs a radical overhaul . |
| 11 | Polsby argues that the pluralist approach is more rigorous and makes no such a priori assumptions about the distribution of power in urban political , systems . |
| 12 | The okapi , according to Gill Venner , is shy and elusive and has a long gestation period . ) |
| 13 | Utilisation can be twice as high and produces a double benefit : ( i ) lower costs per hour , and ( ii ) fewer aircraft needed to service the same sales volume . |
| 14 | But those keen to dial a sex show face problems — the screen is a mere three inches high and gives a poor image . |
| 15 | The tomb is around 2,000 years old and bears the inscribed name ‘ Yusuf Bar Kaifas ’ . |
| 16 | Q Our son is 11 years old and attends a prep school as a boarder . |
| 17 | Wendy from Countesthorpe in Leicester , is 18 years old and has a little daughter , Natasha , who was born in December 1988 . |
| 18 | ‘ As you know , I 'm an adequate , plain cook , but I 've neither the time nor the talent to produce a coq au vin like this one : it was produced by my neighbour , Mrs Neville , who is seventy-five years old and runs a thriving emergency cooking , house-sitting and general crisis-management service for the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 19 | Presentation findings is made more exciting and has the added bonus of a " perfect " final copy which becomes a resource for others to use . |
| 20 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 21 | Now graded VS , the final pitch is notoriously slipper when wet and suffers the further hazard of nesting seagulls . |
| 22 | The advantage of fondant over royal icing for covering cakes is that it is much easier and quicker to make , is more pliable and has a softer texture that many people prefer . |
| 23 | The other system is known as record-playback and involves the skilled craft operator going through the physical motions of machining the first piece of the batch with the machine in record mode . |
| 24 | One on the Yellowstone Plateau in Wyoming , U S A , covers an area of around 2500 km 2 and forms a large basin partly filled by massive sheets of ignimbrite . |
| 25 | Arriving at the right message , deciding who the right people are , and how to reach them , is a highly complex business , and the result is an advertising strategy for your client which is sound and provides a realistic and workable rationale for his campaign . |
| 26 | This is self-contained and provides a spectacular water display at night , yet during the daytime can be used as an ordinary fountain . |
| 27 | ‘ The firm is very departmentalised and has a strong commitment to legal aid work . |
| 28 | A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones separate the bog garden from the pool proper and retains the peaty mixture which is placed over a layer of gravel . |
| 29 | Our rail network is the lowest funded , the lowest staffed and has the lowest investment programme in Europe with the poorest quality service and the fastest declining level of safety , but B R has the highest fares . |
| 30 | That the aircraft is almost time-expired and costs a small fortune to operate is almost a secondary consideration , but a damning one nonetheless . |