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

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1 Analysing the relationship may — and will - be a painful process but it is also one of healing , for if you can admit to yourself that the relationship was not perfect and was in many ways extremely frustrating , then the sense of loss and abandonment will no longer be as painful .
2 Jones was struck especially by Citizen Thelwall , who , wearing the white hat of the radical , got up after dinner and ‘ talked so loud and was in such a Passion that Jones was frightened ’ .
3 The very old and the young have a weaker mind than those in their prime and are for this reason more vulnerable to spirit attack .
4 And we may well agree that there is little else that one can imagine existing alone and being of any great value .
5 It would be arrogant and is in any case unnecessary , to imply that the study of language is unique in that respect .
6 Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest .
7 collapsing and is in such a state .
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