Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal had ruled that whether or not such material might be ‘ beneficial to those who were sexually repressed or perverted or deviant ’ did not make its publication ‘ an object of general concern ’ , since otherwise any form of pornography could be defended on the ground that it was beneficial to some people , if not to the public at large . |
| 2 | In summary , Tunguska was probably a fairly strong , dense , asteroid-like object , but probably not as strong or dense as iron . |
| 3 | One gets the impression that accountants are always foolish or dishonest and accountancy itself a waste of time . |
| 4 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) The following classes of cases are usually not subject to the doctrine : ( a ) those which include a restraint which does not involve the convenantor in giving up a freedom which he would otherwise have enjoyed unless the restraint creates a positive duty to do something which restricts his freedom during the period of its operation ; ( b ) those which , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations ; and ( c ) those in which the purpose and nature of the restraint is coterminous with the purpose of the contract . |
| 6 | And remember , the more funny or ridiculous that image is , the simpler it will be to remember . |
| 7 | An argument over which bulls are best ; British or Canadian and American is causing quite a rumpus . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had neither French nor German nor English , as one would expect . |
| 13 | A sound entered the picture , clear and pure as bird song . |
| 14 | He decided she was as clear and pure as water , against the other girls ' coarseness . |
| 15 | Low , clear and cold and sport patchy . |
| 16 | Dawn came , a thin band of light as clear and colourless as water . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | — On the leeward side of my island , the water 's often calm and heavy as syrup , the breath of the wind sweet and shallow like a young girl sleeping , aïah ! |
| 19 | The thread which joined them was as light and insubstantial as dandelion seed , and once out of sight of each other , the spell was broken . |
| 20 | He had only seen them in books and wondered how something as light and puffy as steam could pull such heavy carriages . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 24 | Everything was tangled and confused and fast-changing . |
| 25 | ‘ He was so good and loyal and honest and brave and sweet and kind . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ British and European and World citizen , but also member of Universe and Galaxarian ’ ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | An underwater world , new and exciting and richer than surface communication . |
| 30 | She 's sensible and hardworking and kind — I know you 'll like her . ’ |