Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 2 | The aqueous solution was made fresh daily and used in the rats at a dose 10 times higher ( 50 µg/kg ) than that shown in separate experiments on these animals to reduce by 50% the platelet activating factor induced hypotension ( ID 5 =5 µg/kg ip ) . |
| 3 | Mr John Cleese , the icon , has revealed that when his mother dies he intends to ‘ have her stuffed and put in a glass case in his front hall . ’ |
| 4 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 5 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 6 | Well , it was heigh-ho for the nearest cookshop and , if I remember correctly , a quail pie , the crust golden and crisp , the meat fresh and smothered in a rich sauce , and a jug of new Bordeaux . |
| 7 | Often described simply as brown and used in a rather careless manner , burnt sienna should instead be regarded as a particularly transparent , slightly neutralised orange , and used accordingly . |
| 8 | If an operation went wrong and resulted in a scandal because one of their agents had been caught in the act there was no one in Russia who would criticise . |
| 9 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 10 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |
| 11 | They were hand in hand , about a yard apart , swinging their joined hands high and indulging in a tug-of-war every time they encountered a lamp-post or a tree . |
| 12 | There is still an element of polarisation , however , which proclaims ‘ belief in the old and distrust in the new ’ . |
| 13 | Church ‘ A' is seven years old and located in a new development area of detached houses . |
| 14 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 15 | We would rather be free and live in a mess . |
| 16 | Again , Yanto managed to grab the tail , and yet again the fish broke free and leapt in the air . |
| 17 | The sun was high and bright as he dropped gently out of the hills towards the vale , faintly misted with vapour , and saw in the far distance before him the mole-hill of Ruthyn , hunched and veiled in the smoke of its house-fires , a delicate blue flower in the sparkling folded green , with the giant hogback of Moel Famau towering beyond . |
| 18 | The MSG promotes contacts between academics , civil servants , Bank of England officials , private bankers , stockbrokers , and others interested and working in the fields of money and banking , finance , and macroeconomic policy . |
| 19 | For the remaining junctions the transitions will be staggered and result in a B II phosphate facing a B I phosphate . |
| 20 | It is healthy ; it is strong ; and I think it will continue to grow and become even more exciting and challenging in the future . |
| 21 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 22 | But you stand a better chance of your material being used if it is topical , lively and written in a similar style to that employed by the particular newspaper or radio station . |
| 23 | He traces the origins of contemporary attitudes to professionalism and public services , to the Victorian period , and argues that the model we have inherited is outmoded and stands in the way of improving professionally relationships . |
| 24 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 25 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 26 | Loiseau goes to the Burgundy market to select produce like the wild asparagus he serves , buttered and flashed in a pan with lobster . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 'm still very English and get in a terrible state if I 'm late for an appointment . |
| 28 | Will society want them to be literate and numerate in the senses we now use the words ? |
| 29 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
| 30 | The chef promises to deliver a three course meal for your dinner party , cooked and served in the manner of the Roman era … complete with togas . |