Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people are very primitive and live in small groups , moving from place to place . |
| 2 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 3 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 4 | The sky was clear and glittering with icy stars . |
| 5 | That structure need not be rigid or too formalised but it must be clear and known to those in the firm . |
| 6 | Reports are commonly prosaic , dull , pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader . |
| 7 | Any non-governmental movement might be suspect in such circumstances , untried and lacking in those essential relationships and assets by which inter-state bargains can be struck . |
| 8 | The cells in the embryo are initially much less specialized and differ from each other in more subtle ways . |
| 9 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 10 | The slides were then rewashed in phospate buffered saline and treated with diamino-benzidine tetrahydrochloride ( Sigma , Poole ) for 15 minutes in the dark . |
| 11 | The children dressed up for mock scenarios which the police experience daily and learnt about legal phraseology . |
| 12 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 13 | It was the flotsam and jetsam of every seaside gift shop , the debris of 10 million suburban mantelpieces , but blown up to epic proportions , made mythic and crafted by European artisans to Koons 's instructions . |
| 14 | The Draft Directive describes a database as : a collection of works or materials arranged , stored and accessed by electronic means and the electronic materials necessary for the operation of the database such as its thesaurus , index or system for obtaining or presenting information . |
| 15 | This comparison was made more difficult by the existence of two organisations with a number of disparate functions , each using similar information but stored and utilised in different ways . |
| 16 | All software , of whatever form or kind , is submitted to LIFESPAN , stored and retrieved as one or more LIFESPAN modules . |
| 17 | All software , of whatever form or kind , is submitted to LIFESPAN , stored and retrieved as one or more LIFESPAN modules . |
| 18 | Accept this and the gateway to other worlds will slowly swing wide for you and each day will bring forth new wonders , so that you become once more as a child , absorbed and enchanted by all there is of which to learn . |
| 19 | He was slim and fit with well-brushed thinning hair . |
| 20 | carved and polished to great smoothness . |
| 21 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 22 | The trouble was that they voted against the large numbers of unemployed and voted for Fascist and Nazi Governments . |
| 23 | This move of resources into the community was entirely unplanned and arose from local initiatives . |
| 24 | The inclusion of discussion is also interesting and contrasts with traditional approaches which demanded silence in arithmetic lessons . |
| 25 | Finding three of these items is very interesting and leads to various questions . |
| 26 | Bjornsson 's research is thorough , interesting and reported with due emphasis on its areas of possible weakness or unreliability . |
| 27 | The dinner menu is interesting and varied with many dishes incorporating locally caught fish and shellfish and all the vegetables are locally and organically grown . |
| 28 | LDOCE is slightly superior to the CED and OALD in this respect , most probably due to its use of a core vocabulary . |
| 29 | When you get light and trembling with that special kind of stage fright , you ca n't trust your fingers to do what they 're told . |
| 30 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |