Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fuel consumption of my 1966 IIA two and a quarter petrol is horrendous and the oil consumption is not much better .
2 he was n't playing peculiar and the teacher say said something about , he was reading it out and the kids said oh what 's his name then and she said he 's names Geoff and they were all going ooh Geoff and she said , he says I think she does it on purpose
3 At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’
4 Since the water is clear and the shore steep-to , echo sounders are desirable , but not essential .
5 The digitised speech is crystal clear and the FM music would justify spending that little extra on a Sound Blaster to get the full benefit of this excellent package .
6 Resources in Old Age : Ageing and the Life Course
7 There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you .
8 Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis .
9 However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 .
10 In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly .
11 In October 1924 the Labour-led coalition of Ramsay MacDonald was defeated in a House of Commons vote over the proposal to prosecute Workers ' Weekly and an election campaign began .
12 The study , Her Share of Misfortune , is published by ASH Working Group on Women and Smoking and the Cancer Research Campaign .
13 Being unemployed and a house owner put even more stress on our relationship .
14 Young unemployed and the stress process : a longitudinal study
15 Thus , the following formula is used to calculate the unemployment percentage ( U ) : unc The numbers unemployed and the unemployment percentage for the UK , 1965–85 , are shown in Table 3.1 .
16 In conclusion , it is clear that the market in the UK is maturing and the executive search product is starting to come to age .
17 The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place .
18 It changes the taste of food to the extent that some dishes no longer appear to have any connection with their oil-less counterparts : a fresh sardine , for example , is quite different from one which has been transformed by being preserved in oil ( a point implied by the existence in the Czech language of two quite different words for the fresh and the oil varieties : a sardine in oil is called olejovka , from olej=oil ) .
19 He was a proper fop : his roses and cream complexion was clean-shaven and a silver pearl dangled from a small gold chain in his right ear lobe .
20 One bit wrong and the system crashes .
21 If the rebel helots at Ithome were still maintaining their siege ( 465–455 are the dates Thucydides implies ) this use of manpower was reckless indeed ; so perhaps the text is wrong and the Ithome dates are really 465–460 .
22 The Blackrock Club never put a foot wrong and the host association — the Bowling League of Ireland — ‘ also ’ played their part in making it a worthwhile championship .
23 The arrival of a pulse sends the output at IC2 pin 3 high and the timing capacitor C9 begins to charge through resistor R10 .
24 This means that because the capital outstanding is highest during the early months of the loan , the amount of interest payable each month is relatively high and the capital repayment low .
25 This means that because the capital outstanding is highest during the early months of the loan , the amount of interest payable each month is relatively high and the capital repayment low .
26 All the above codes and standards require the discharge of large quantities of water where the racks are high and the hazard rating of the goods is high also .
27 It was noted that the localiser deflection sensitivity of the No. 1 VOR was set too high and the flag alarm settings on both the localiser and the glideslope were such that the flags would not appear even when the signals were unusable .
28 Taxes were too high and the state bureaucracy too large and too much power had become centralized in Washington at the expense of the states .
29 The bridge saddles were too high and the truss rod needed a full half-turn to make the neck straight and playable .
30 Therefore V c falls until it reaches the lower logic 0 threshold ( V- ) , upon which the output once more goes high and the cycle repeats .
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