Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , jewellery may be stolen , cattle may die and grain deteriorates in quality with the passage of time , thus wealth in these forms is inherently risky and to a certain extent illiquid , i.e. not usually suitable for instant transfer or use . |
| 2 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 3 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 4 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 5 | Given the difficulties of the ‘ 91 vintage in Bordeaux , the Chateau Canet ‘ 91 is impressive — grassy fresh and with a crunchy green fruit ( £4.29 ) . |
| 6 | Clean-shaven and with a full head of greying hair , he was known as a gentle man , but nobody crossed him . |
| 7 | Lutyens joined their practice as a young man and was much influenced by Peto , who was brilliant , eccentric , energetic and funny and during the later part of his life became increasingly keen on garden design . |
| 8 | All are interdependent and to a certain extent intermixed . |
| 9 | Its loss ratio must accordingly be quite high and as the dominant UK export credit underwriter , this should not be surprising . |
| 10 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 11 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 12 | Chairman Peter Hollings still insisted yesterday its £18.3m bid last year was ‘ generous and in the best interests of both companies ' shareholders ’ . |
| 13 | — variously described as " empty-shell " and content free and as a labour-saving device and tool for learning . |
| 14 | Four years later she is symptom free and on a normal diet . |
| 15 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 16 | Consider adding the following words to this clause : by which date the Premises shall be watertight defect free and in a fit state for fitting out and sufficient access thereto together with a sufficient electricity and water supply shall be available to enable the Tenant to carry out the Tenant 's Works/ [ fitting out works etc/ ] |
| 17 | But most of them could not understand his lasting despair , for was he not free and in the very home of democracy ? |
| 18 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 19 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 20 | On the other hand he was proud of what he was up to , and it was exciting and in a good cause ; so he talked about it . |
| 21 | The British Friesian quickly became very popular and by the late 1940s it was the country 's dominant breed , although it was sometimes decried for being uglier , having a worse udder and giving lower quality milk than the Ayrshire and the Shorthorn . |
| 22 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 23 | This paper describes an alternative approach whereby the thermal histories of coals from the Palaeozoic and from the Tertiary are deduced from simulation experiments in which samples with different natural maturities are heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 24 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 25 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 26 | It had surprised Ruth that the Carsons should choose to live in a boarding-house , until she discovered that in New York it was quite the thing-always supposing that the establishment was high-class and in a good locality . |
| 27 | There was one there that was empty and for a long long while . |
| 28 | There are insult-words for women who have too much sex ( slag ) and women who have too little ( pricktease ) ; women can be tasty and at the same time cunts . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , while regarded by the vast majority of members as good , proper and for the immediate and ultimate improvement of professional standards , the concept was challenged on a number of points , though these challenges were directed against the logistics of the proposal rather than the philosophy . |
| 30 | ‘ Nevertheless , they consider that it was entirely proper and in the public interest for the Daily Mirror to mount its own investigation into drug-related crime . |