Example sentences of "[adj] and [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her skin was a pale olive colour but absolutely clear and her magnificent eyes gave her face all the definition it needed . |
| 2 | Loram and Sean Joyce combined neatly on the edge of the Quakers box to put Justin Fashanu clear and his right foot shot just beat Prudhoe , with Les McJannet , returning to the side after injury , unable to stop the ball on the line . |
| 3 | More skilful play by Roberts and Turner sent Hamilton clear and his well-struck shot put Haslemere ahead . |
| 4 | On the third day his urine was clear and his renal function remained normal . |
| 5 | I say to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish and my hon. Friend the Minister that I do not see why British Rail , as ever , should be expected to bear the full cost . |
| 6 | But , as earlier sections in this chapter have demonstrated , a decade earlier prospects for the District 's future prosperity and work were unpromising and its autonomous existence open to serious doubt on occasions . |
| 7 | A third of the Membership claimed to be unemployed and their reduced subscriptions of £6 did not cover even mailing costs . |
| 8 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 9 | She says it 's a start she say , our teasmade and our other coffee maker with the mug . |
| 10 | The relationship of this picture with that provided by Salvian and his fellow moralists , who saw the early fifth century as a period of destruction , is not immediately apparent . |
| 11 | Aware of the history of that awful bloody confrontation throughout the 1969–70 tour , the new-era Springboks are determined to keep their heads high and their political profile low . |
| 12 | But three of the supermarkets involved insist that their hygiene standards are high and their own tests found no evidence of bacteria . |
| 13 | On another level policies are not irrational and their disjointed character is not seen as a bad thing by the apologists of incrementalism . |
| 14 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 15 | But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction . |
| 16 | So and then entertaining and your social life . |
| 17 | Sometimes she 'd yelp and try to run away with her back hunched and her bushy tail sweeping the ground between her legs . |
| 18 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |
| 19 | Many Irish catholic nationalists also consider the British and their Orange allies to have established tyrannical government in a part of Ireland . |
| 20 | Instead his works celebrate every conceivable venereal disease , physical disfigurement and medical condition : his gaze is unflinching and his sexual appetites unquenchable . |
| 21 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 22 | The visitor , whoever it was , came in silently , and looking round , not knowing who or what to expect , Molly saw the tall sad-looking dog , its eyes wet and its pink tongue lolling , which Buck had apparently abandoned to the Castello Crocetto . |
| 23 | These singularities , however , are distribution-valued and their physical significance requires further investigation . |
| 24 | My method in what follows will be to begin with an analysis of the concept of an ontological existent and its associated categories of identity , individuality and plurality , and by pursuing the leads that such an analysis yields to their logical conclusion demonstrate that such concepts form part of a complex structure of closely inter-related ideas . |
| 25 | The same process has been documented in other situations where a people have been conquered , colonised and their cultural beliefs assaulted . |
| 26 | Post-Communist Russia with the Moscow Mafia and the black market prevalent and his past hero Renko starring again . |
| 27 | That our perceptual apparatus is reliable and our abductive sense is sound do not , for the Quinean position , need arguing ; we have ample evidence that they have guided us to the truth on many occasions . |
| 28 | Her uniform shirt was crisp and her red hair had been tied back and she had a hint of an overbite . |
| 29 | To the bee 's eyes , unable to detect red , their colours appear very similar and their ultraviolet markings are identical . |
| 30 | Our task as editors of this book is to make these social contexts explicit and our own intentions to contribute to a critical discussion of the inner city issue , which challenges the meanings of the powerful , as open as possible . |