Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The bivvy bag is ultra lightweight and waterproof and has high wicking qualities . |
| 33 | A nocturnal sleeping unit of unprocessed cereal material , an exterior segment of medium calorie farinaceous comestible and attrited fragmentary clothing units . |
| 34 | Fig 3 Beginner 's sail : easy to uphaul , light and offering good control in light winds . |
| 35 | This first pattern represents heaven and light and has 18 movements . |
| 36 | BEST BEDROOM : Tony Jacklin 's — because it is nice and light and has lovely views of Scotland . |
| 37 | ‘ It felt comfortable to use , it 's light and has three heat settings . ’ |
| 38 | It 's being tackled from three angles : more efficient burning to reduce output at source , exhaust after-treatment and devising cleaner fuel . |
| 39 | This funny and moving new play was the winner of the 1990 London Weekend Television plays on stage award . |
| 40 | Stunningly visual and full of rich language , Sue Glover 's funny and moving new play follows six women as they laugh and work , flirt and fight their way through a long hard year on the farm . |
| 41 | The all-important top soil quickly disappears , and leaches into the rivers , making the water muddy brown and scuppering any chance of a new forest growing up . |
| 42 | Headlines in a US paper saying the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves . |
| 43 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 44 | bounce back when things go wrong and find new pathways , blaze new trails . |
| 45 | Archbishop Lyfing of Canterbury , returning from Rome with his pallium , also brought letters and messages from Pope Benedict VIII , who evidently urged Cnut to " everywhere exalt God 's praise and suppress wrong and establish full security " . |
| 46 | Nevertheless , from the viewpoint of the necessary external analysis , Porter is clearly correct in seeing a rigorous and informed economic analysis of the market place as the most vital element . |
| 47 | The tower was about 10 metres high and had solid masonry of brick and stone about 2 metres thick . |
| 48 | Fortunately , it is smooth and well-matched to five-speed automatic gearbox ( below ) , which has close ratios that allow revs to stay high and keep straight-six engine ‘ on cam ’ |
| 49 | It stood twenty-five spans high and took four horses to pull it . |
| 50 | The statue is 5.5m high and weighs 20 tonnes . |
| 51 | So Angus got up on to the rock and held his fist high and told young McCulloch to stand the hostages on a knoll where everyone could see them and called out the oath above the drone of the pipe : ‘ We do swear — never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — of this oppressive Act . |
| 52 | The standard was high and excluded foul language . |
| 53 | That main block is fairly high and has two levels . |
| 54 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 55 | This is bad news for Littlewoods since turnover among agents tends to be high and recruiting new ones costs the same ( about 50 ) irrespective of the amount of business they bring . |
| 56 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 57 | A good Americansandwich will be a Dagwood Bumstead special — at least six inches long , four multi-layered inches high and need two hands to control it . |
| 58 | After an alleged assault on her birthday in September 1989 she could not face returning to the Royal High and missed eight months of education before starting at a private school . |
| 59 | I am six years old and eat pickled herring with my father 's mother Miriam Leah , who has changed her name to Mary . |
| 60 | It is some three centuries old and commemorates three individuals , two men and a woman , who died in the sectarian ‘ killing times ’ of this period . |