Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Please help the Society to become self-sufficient and able to train more teachers so that we can offer classes in more locations and take over from those teachers who are waiting to hang up their leotards and tights ’ .
2 It is interesting and important to note that , even when Piaget 's views on a child 's conceptual development are still accepted , the danger of omitting theology from the young child 's RE is becoming more widely appreciated .
3 Er he will be quite will willing and happy to do that on behalf of the three organizations erm here in County Hall one day in the first week in October well any day barring Thursday of that week .
4 This encouraged the transfer at a time when the son was still willing and able to make some changes to the farm .
5 The fact that so many were willing and able to combine these demands with keeping the house reflected highly on their adaptability .
6 For the next half an hour or so I felt very panicky and unready to have this baby .
7 Its executive car contender , the CX , is too old and idiosyncratic to warrant much attention on the British market , and is further disadvantaged by chronic depreciation .
8 Solti 's conducting is simply too unstable and volatile to give much satisfaction , showing his inexperience at the time in Wagner ( how sad Knappertsbusch was n't given the assignment ) .
9 Educating pupils with special educational needs can be an expensive activity and being caring , compassionate and tolerant has little to do with being cost effective .
10 We are chalk and cheese ; our personalities are radically different and likely to abrade each other .
11 It is unscientific and wrong to draw any qualitative conclusions from it whatsoever .
12 However , in order to do this , it follows that you must be versatile and able to assume many different roles .
13 Since the economic advantages are overwhelming and a greater and more expert level of service can be expected it is appropriate and justifiable to spend some time on supplier selection .
14 No doubt human settlers , moving into these forests for the first time , were delighted and surprised to find such fertile meadows in the heart of the dense forest and built their homes beside them .
15 The academically discredited distinction between traditional and modern is now common currency , while the notions of inward-oriented and outward-oriented describe those who look for guidance and sustenance to the resources of their own groups as opposed to those who look outside , usually to the West .
16 Harriet , still grieving and perplexed and unable to obtain any further information from Liza , asked Edna outright if she could throw any light on the matter .
17 In sunlight the rotor disc becomes visible and this gives more information on the roll attitude of the model .
18 They drank their tea very dark and all put much sugar into it .
19 The moment would come , quite soon perhaps , perhaps in the evening when they would turn aside into some thicket , light a fire , and prepare a meal , when it would seem right and natural to look this mystery in the face .
20 We heard that if your body is exposed to constant rapid temperature changes , its mechanisms become stressed and this creates all sorts of problems which can result in breakdown .
21 We hope that by employing non-discriminatory usage in this book we have shown that it is possible and easy to adopt another style .
22 The decisive shift towards the Tories seems to have come once Major began to concede that a hung parliament was possible and that to want this would lead to coalition , weak government , and deals in back rooms .
23 His belief that compromise might be possible and necessary had few followers in the ruling United National Party ( UNP ) .
24 Conduct sufficient for a dissolution This sweeping provision is nearly always found in agreements although if the expulsion powers have been properly drafted it should always be possible and preferable to invoke some more specific ground .
25 The diagram uses only an eight point compass : it is possible and preferable to construct such a diagram with finer divisions .
26 Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree .
27 WORLD EXCLUSIVE Why my daughter means so much YASMIN LE BON WIN ! 20 quick 'n' easy microwaves DEAF AND BLIND Read this woman 's remarkable story CLAIRE Two cheers for the new abortion pill REAL LIFE ‘ My son 's a GAMBLER ’ Fighting for you …
28 No it ca n't be for something not very loud and that 's all gone , shit , I 've fucking it !
29 The Austrian government , however , has not done so , claiming that closure would result in an inadequate electricity supply for the Czechoslovaks , it being too impractical and expensive to supply this from other sources .
30 Such an enterprise may prove both impractical and unlikely to yield any major new theoretical insights .
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