Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 2 | Though he 'd never really believed that any woman would behave that coldly and that violently in response to an attack . |
| 3 | There 's caffs and that usually in railway stations . |
| 4 | This glove has since fulfilled my requirements for treasure hunting being tough enough , warm enough and dry enough for use on land sites , the beach and — obviously underwater . |
| 5 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 6 | They ring up at seven and eight o'clock at night . |
| 7 | Yes but you see when you get out of here about seven times between half past six and eight o'clock at night |
| 8 | The massive figure of Christ , heroic and muscular even in death , is unflinchingly presented for contemplation by the viewer , surrounded by the mourning Virgin , St John and two holy women . |
| 9 | The sleek hull of a Viking boat was specially designed to be shallow enough and narrow enough for use on navigable rivers , along which Norsemen brought fire and the sword . |
| 10 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 11 | In these and other ways the state has favoured those companies who have displayed very high rates of investment , and this almost by definition excludes most small firms . |
| 12 | Picasso 's work is crude and direct both in colour and execution . |
| 13 | Hedgerows grew straggling on either side , bare now in mid-winter , black , grey and brown instead of green . |
| 14 | Part of the show will draw inspiration from Glasgow 's most famous architect , Charles Rennie Mackintosh , who favoured simple lines and plain colours , with black and white and muted tones of grey and brown much in evidence . |
| 15 | Assuming a primary sex ratio ( males/females ) of unity and that mortality is random and dependent only on mobility pattern , operational sex ratio is where b is the ratio : time per adult male seeking sexual encounter/time per female . |
| 16 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 17 | In the case of specific requests please ring the appropriate number below between eight o'clock in the morning and six o'clock at night . |
| 18 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave in March defence was the main issue on television , the main issue stressed by the Conservative Party , and second only to unemployment as Labour 's main issue . |
| 19 | SIR , — Your May 15 editorial is timely and wide-ranging both in geography and scope , but not always appropriate to our situation . |
| 20 | Something flickered in his eyes before they went hard and cold again with suspicion . |
| 21 | There was a story about an oil tanker that had veered off course and steamed right through Heaven Sound . |
| 22 | It provided no prescriptions for the substantive curriculum , except at the level of general aims , and these only by way of suggestion . |
| 23 | It is not true in virtue of any further relation between P and Q. It is false only when P is true and Q false , and false solely in virtue of those truth-values of its parts . |
| 24 | The only small short-billed wader looking black and white both at rest and in flight ; legs orange . |
| 25 | Pieter de Hooch 's carefully-composed outdoor ‘ snapshots ’ are rare enough and rarer still for sale . |
| 26 | Most significantly , the impact of the Agricultural Revolution and the extensive enclosures in rural parishes during the late 18th and early 19th centuries drove the young and healthy away from home in search of work and the possibility of keeping body and soul together . |
| 27 | Aneurin Bevan who , as Minister of Health in the Labour government , pioneered the introduction of the NHS , claimed : ‘ Medical treatment and care should be made available to rich and poor alike in accordance with medical need and by no other criteria . ’ |
| 28 | The road from Cauterets to the Pont d'Espagne , five miles away to the south , is all waterfalls — there are four or five of them , spectacular and profuse even in summer . |
| 29 | They rose at 4 a.m. in summer and 5 a.m. in winter , and together attended three daily services in the church : Matins , Evensong and the Litany . |
| 30 | The panel will try to assess the recruit 's ability to remain impartial and courteous even under pressure and their ability to keep any strong opinions they may have from influencing the advice process . |