Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 2 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 3 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 4 | It is clear that a reduction or increase in funding did not automatically lead to similar changes in each of the schools . |
| 5 | Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion . |
| 6 | It is clear that a baby or a young person is able to grow anatomically and physiologically without hearing stories or reading books . |
| 7 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 8 | The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic . |
| 9 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 10 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 11 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 12 | Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it . |
| 13 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 14 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 15 | To put the matter simply , it is not clear whether a firm that acts in compliance with the rules of its SRO may nonetheless find itself liable for breach of fiduciary obligation . |
| 16 | It is not entirely clear whether an onlooker or third person is entitled to use force to assist another to resist unlawful police conduct . |
| 17 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 18 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 20 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 21 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 22 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 23 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 24 | Joseph Stepper 's ‘ Wife ’ is one of the maddest ragga records ever made , as raw as a dinner that 's still walking around . |
| 25 | During contests he was as jumpy as a schoolgirl and gave off a static charge of nervous energy . |
| 26 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 27 | Thus it is possible that a clause that did not make sufficient disclosure to preclude an action for breach of duty on the grounds of informed consent , might provide a defence as an effective exclusion clause . |
| 28 | By analogy with other Zechstein carbonate units , it is possible that an oolitic-barrier or reef complex also may have been deposited at the edge of the platform but no evidence of this has been reported so far . |
| 29 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 30 | When these two factors are put together , it is readily understandable that a request that treatment should cease should be seen as not really meant , but as merely the response to either a passing mood or a loss of mental fitness . |