Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Your nervous and apprehensive about doing some
2 The experience of the GLC between 1981 and 1986 in putting this into practice is of great significance , not only in changing the role of economics and employment objectives within planning but also for its lessons about the nature and potential effectiveness of local economic policies .
3 The whole subject was brought to a sudden climax when Hilbert in 1888 showed that for a form of any degree in any number of variables a finite " basis " always exists — and this without giving any indication of how to find such a set in any particular instance !
4 Then I began to feel guilty and superstitious about having any negative feelings at all . ’
5 Perhaps I was wrong , but I could not see that the King was being kind and generous in ordering such an inhuman punishment .
6 To vindicate Rawls ' position one requires convincing reasons first for excluding moral and religious beliefs from the information available behind the veil of ignorance , and second for accepting that neutral or maximally neutral principles will be chosen in these circumstances .
7 If you 're sensible and serious about wanting this opportunity , you 'll start work tomorrow — measure up , take notes … ’
8 Paul Piccone has argued that the relative success of monopoly capital in the 1930s and 1940s in incorporating much of social and cultural life within its own orbit led Adorno
9 Cross the footbridge and wallstile before crossing another stile to bring you to High House .
10 I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion .
11 Hungry for food , relentless in pursuit of it and capable of killing most creatures that can not run from them , they terrorise the bush .
12 The truth is I am between the two and capable of doing both . ’
13 The son of another Superintendent has told how he and his mother often had to remove the leggings and gaiters from his father when he arrived home soaking wet and utterly stiff and weary after cycling several miles to and from a meeting on a winter night .
14 Elsewhere on the steeper slopes leaching removes enough mineral content from the thin poor soils to render them infertile and incapable of supporting more than a poor vegetation carrying very little stock .
15 He was a magnificent surgical technician , a perfectionist who constantly improved his techniques and ingenious in developing many new surgical instruments and splints .
16 Several had become pregnant on losing their virginity , or very shortly after , and their boyfriends had gone off , leaving them both scarred and scared about having any subsequent sexual relationships .
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