Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively low slewing rate of the LM308A is responsible for this and imposes a limit on clock frequency of 15kHz if such an eventuality is at all likely . |
| 2 | This artist 's impression is said to be a good likeness of the attacker who 's thought to be in his late 30s and has a pot belly . |
| 3 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 4 | A positive approach to study of this nature makes it more interesting and provides a degree of excitement . |
| 5 | On the other hand , we certainly are not looking for the bland , but rather for the anodyne which is also intriguing and interesting and has a sense of positive enthusiasm . ’ |
| 6 | Partly irritated by critical misreadings of this piece , Barth published in 1979 a ‘ comparison and corrective ’ entitled ‘ The Literature of Replenishment ’ in which he sees disjunction , etc. as essentially modernistic and seeks a synthesis between modernism and nineteenth-century realism . |
| 7 | The young boy pictured above is 13 years old and works a minimum of 12 hours a day . |
| 8 | BRITAIN 'S typical executive is male , 44 years old and has a salary of £30,355 ( including £4,826 in bonus pay ) , according to a comprehensive annual survey conducted by P-E Inbucon , writes Sarah Hogg . |
| 9 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 10 | A person " connected " with a director is defined in s346 Companies Act 1985 and includes a body corporate in which the director and other persons connected with him are interested in at least one-fifth of the nominal value of the equity share capital or control more than one-fifth of the voting power of the company at any general meeting . |
| 11 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 12 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 13 | The current trustees of the Barnes Foundation argue that the 1924 Merion villa on the edge of Philadelphia that housed the collection has become structurally unsafe and poses a threat to the pictures . |
| 14 | These complications are illustrated in Figure 5.1 and an example of variance spectra also conjectured by Church ( 1980 ) is also illustrated in Figure 5.1 and introduces a theme which will be resumed in chapter 8 ( p.161 ) . |
| 15 | This imparts a rhythm to the neck even when it is straight and gives a sense of alertness and tensile strength . |
| 16 | This superb floating hotel has a passenger capacity of 1,610 and carries a staff and crew of almost 700 . |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp yesterday unveiled the DECpc MTE line of two 80486-based personal computers , starting at $2,650 and $3,100 : they include a 32-bit EISA bus and VESA VL bus and are claimed to be the highest-performance 80486 machines available ; they are Pentium-upgradable and offers a PCMCIA peripheral card option for data sharing with portable computers having PCMCIA . |
| 18 | I 'm sure that 's right and includes a lot of interest as well |
| 19 | The ideology of psychologism also fits in with the need for motivating people for productive work , and at the same time makes possible and legitimates a fascination with mystery and magic . |
| 20 | For example , in the word ‘ father ’ the second syllable , which is weak , is shorter than the first , is less loud and has a vowel that can not occur in strong syllables . |
| 21 | The Tang is shy and hides a lot and has recently started to look a bit tatty and pale in colour , although he feeds well . |
| 22 | Any styling effort applied to sopping wet hair is usually unnecessary and wastes a lot of time . |
| 23 | Nutrition , based in the Netherlands , employs 2,300 and has a turnover of £190m . |
| 24 | Transparent fuel pipe , as used on motorcycles and many cars , is easily obtained , economic and fulfils a variety of purposes as a spar joiner . |
| 25 | In a singing community of his peers he comes alive and discovers a sense of membership which is denied him elsewhere : all the more reason to embrace the slightly devilish and glamorous identity which is thrown at you by ‘ them ’ and sing along , ‘ We are the famous football hooligans ! ’ |
| 26 | However , it goes further than that and implies a lack of awareness of the need for conservation , of future private benefits for individual households and the village ( or larger local community ) as a whole , leading to a failure to mobilise people to give their labour for construction ( even when it will be paid for ) , for maintenance work , and for enforcement where discipline is required ( to control lopping of small seedlings , to exclude livestock from reafforested and other areas and so on ) . |
| 27 | And he goes like that and throws a laser . |
| 28 | The tail is also very broad and looks a bit like a Japanese fan when opened out fully . |
| 29 | It is a bit difficult to tell what lies in store when one opens a book at random and finds a section on opening books at random . |
| 30 | In fact it was unfair and represents a furtherance of Hope 's ambition of a Gothic Foreign Office . |