Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people are very primitive and live in small groups , moving from place to place . |
| 2 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 3 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |
| 4 | Reports are commonly prosaic , dull , pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader . |
| 5 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 6 | The slides were then rewashed in phospate buffered saline and treated with diamino-benzidine tetrahydrochloride ( Sigma , Poole ) for 15 minutes in the dark . |
| 7 | The children dressed up for mock scenarios which the police experience daily and learnt about legal phraseology . |
| 8 | It was the flotsam and jetsam of every seaside gift shop , the debris of 10 million suburban mantelpieces , but blown up to epic proportions , made mythic and crafted by European artisans to Koons 's instructions . |
| 9 | The Draft Directive describes a database as : a collection of works or materials arranged , stored and accessed by electronic means and the electronic materials necessary for the operation of the database such as its thesaurus , index or system for obtaining or presenting information . |
| 10 | This comparison was made more difficult by the existence of two organisations with a number of disparate functions , each using similar information but stored and utilised in different ways . |
| 11 | He was slim and fit with well-brushed thinning hair . |
| 12 | carved and polished to great smoothness . |
| 13 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 14 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 15 | This move of resources into the community was entirely unplanned and arose from local initiatives . |
| 16 | The inclusion of discussion is also interesting and contrasts with traditional approaches which demanded silence in arithmetic lessons . |
| 17 | Finding three of these items is very interesting and leads to various questions . |
| 18 | Bjornsson 's research is thorough , interesting and reported with due emphasis on its areas of possible weakness or unreliability . |
| 19 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 20 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 21 | His eyes , flecks of blue mixed with brown and framed by thin lids , did not waver . |
| 22 | All of these guidelines tend to be narrative and concentrate on qualitative trends and areas of concern but with an accompanying outline of quantitative forecasts . |
| 23 | If we study drug addicts , they will surely tell us and we will be bound to report that they believe the outsiders who judge them are wrong and inspired by low motives . |
| 24 | Your visit will include the Kuthodaw Pagoda , the Palace site , the Maha Muni Buddha image ( the figure is 12′ 7″ high and coated with gold leaf ½ an inch thick ) , and the Zegyo market . |
| 25 | Notice too the melodic contour — two sections beginning high and falling to low points . |
| 26 | The Caucasus contains Europe 's highest mountain — Elbrus , over 18,500 feet high and surrounded by shapely , challenging peaks . |
| 27 | Walking upstream , the finest aspect of Ben Nevis is revealed : an intimidating succession of cliffs and rock buttresses 2000 feet high and riven by fearful gullies and palpably the preserve of expert cragsmen only . |
| 28 | However , the standard edition of Hobbes ' writings is nearly 150 years old and suffers from serious defects and omissions . |
| 29 | sourly old and dressed in musty black , |
| 30 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |