Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and slightly [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speeding home to Maidenhead on his Lambretta he brooded on the exciting and slightly scary world of West Coast direct action , radicalism , Beat and homosexuality . |
| 2 | Patience , however , is rewarded with the delicate and slightly sweet flavour of prosciutto . |
| 3 | However , in addition to providing general incentives for staying , such as good working conditions in terms of pay , benefits and the stimulus of the job , many employers noted the increasing and slightly disturbing necessity to implement specific cash incentives , and even introduce controls written into contracts to prevent the loss of key executives . |
| 4 | Nor did she have any of the pale and slightly apologetic stance of her mother . |
| 5 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 6 | The door can converse intelligently , and has a haughty and slightly sarcastic tone of voice . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm working on my speech , ’ he said in a tired and slightly world-weary voice . |
| 8 | She took a deep and slightly tremulous breath . |
| 9 | That makes him a busy and slightly battered person . |
| 10 | Could you all sit down ’ — here she definitely shot me a disdainful and slightly triumphant look — on the FLOOR ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Might take it up full time , sir , ’ said Bodie with a thin and slightly arrogant smile . |
| 12 | Enveloped by a thin and slightly sweet-smelling mist , the Marines waited for orders . |
| 13 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 14 | The stones glowed like warm apricots in the afternoon sun , and the jumble of towers and turrets with their high pointed roofs topped with blue-grey tiles had an endearing and slightly eccentric charm . |
| 15 | The same story could be read in an expanded and slightly modified form in the Historiae Philippicae by Trogus Pompeius , a Celt who retailed Massaliote traditions and nostalgias at the time of Augustus . |
| 16 | It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there . |