Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One is a world of natural phenomena , or light and rain and people passing down the roads , or things happening , or excitement and peace and of music ending . |
| 2 | Eczema or dermatitis is a term used to describe the appearance of the skin which is inflamed , red , itchy , swollen and with leakage of a clear discharge ; in prolonged cases the skin may become thickened and scaly and crack and become sore . |
| 3 | Oh the one that sung in English and German and Spanish and French and Italian ? |
| 4 | Guinness and Beamish and whiskey and lime . |
| 5 | The pupil may come to perceive the teacher and fellow pupils and friendly and understanding and so change his or her assessment of the situation . |
| 6 | No bedtime , so everyone was in a foul mood , and thieving and violence and fights seem to take up everyone 's time . |
| 7 | She remembered everything at once then , in one big bright colourful blurt of sound and light and music and immensely accelerated action . |
| 8 | The real business of school was maths and English and science and history and so on . |
| 9 | Here , we enter the realms of fantasy , because Yin & Yang are related to light and dark or sun and shade . |
| 10 | Falsely you were led into This Outside of Rain and Cold and Sleet and Humans and Order , and Yet it Will become Worse ; iv . |
| 11 | Page two , Line Seven , leave out two A and three and insert and three as amended . |
| 12 | Such a duty exists not only between solicitor and client , but , for example , between banker and customer , doctor and patient and accountant and client . |
| 13 | Within this period republican politics became polarised between extreme right and left as reform and counter-reform disillusioned people with the republican Parliamentary system and placed politics in the streets . |
| 14 | One of the dancing girls with flame-red hair , skin as soft and white as silk and large dark eyes , had caught my fancy . |
| 15 | Black/white , he argued , is a ‘ preposterous frontier , being grossly over-simple , and the world needs far more discriminations than simple divisions between negro and white or Gentile and Jew . |
| 16 | Many things have to be right — the ventilation must be slow and natural and temperature and lighting are critical . |
| 17 | It is in terms of the relations between worker and capitalist and tenant and landlord rather than between psychologically given individuals . |
| 18 | We 're half a mile long and young and old and white and black and girl and boy , looking for a monster to kill or create . |
| 19 | You know , the one where you sit there and lie through your teeth about spending every waking hour flossing and probing and massaging and never go out of an evening without your single-headed brush , and the Aussie hygienist who looks like Brooke Shields on a good day takes one prod at your gum and it spouts blood like Moby Dick on a bad day and the game 's up there and then . |
| 20 | As ale drinkers are swift to confirm , the flavour of bitter is more delicate and complex than lager and more difficult to reproduce . |
| 21 | But their troops were badly trained and inexperienced and rain and fog turned the ground into a quagmire , which prevented the use of their aircraft and impeded the advance of their lorries and tanks . |
| 22 | And four years of scrimping and saving and sweeping and polishing and loving that little house ; the house Gerry came home to . |
| 23 | What remains unclear is whether this redistribution of Indonesian people has actually reduced the environmental problems associated with high populations in Java , Madura and Bali where deforestation and soil erosion are acute . |
| 24 | The teddy bear shaped biscuits , available in chocolate and orange or honey and oats varieties , contain added iron for growing children . |
| 25 | And in fact , a nice bit of reading the play was that I bet , and Johnson 's gon na sort it out , he 's gon na sort it out , he 's gon na , he 's gon na you know , expose Sottle , and Face , and Doll as wicked and to reassert all the , you know , nice values , like self-knowledge , er , and romantic and forgiveness and all these things . |
| 26 | I regard age discrimination , or ageism , as being as offensive and pernicious as sexism and racism . |
| 27 | As a result we argued that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , which are alien to those required if the market economy is to survive , typified by a counter-culture which eschews the traditional distinction between good and evil and right and wrong , and which is committed to establishing an egalitarian economic system . |
| 28 | In contrast , the once important glass and ceramic and clothing and textile industries declined to the point where they almost disappeared . |
| 29 | The ambivalences generated for many white youth by the attractions of Afro-Caribbean , Afro-American and African musical forms , and their admirations for some aggressive forms of Afro-Caribbean masculinity , have resulted in alliances in particular schools and neighbourhoods between white and Afro Caribbean youth against Asian youth , while in some schools where black white conflicts remain submerged the dominant form of racist insult occurs between different ethnic minority groups , for instance Asian and Afro-Caribbean or Cypriot and Vietnamese ( Cohen , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | I fell in love with a deaf and dumb man and I planned to spend my life earning and loving and teaching and praying , all on his behalf . |