Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A common practice is to define women 's responses as moralistic and emotional while seeing those of men as rational and hard-headed . |
| 2 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 3 | I ca n't think why , when they 're so big and strong and have this beautiful warren . |
| 4 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 5 | Like Mum , they were good and meek and deserved more love . |
| 6 | On the far side of the tunnel , near the side of the line towards Bath , there was an immensely deep rock quarry , disused and deserted but containing some old equipment , rusting away at the bottom . |
| 7 | Disused mineral workings are not just the adventure playground of the young and old but provide many recreational needs . |
| 8 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 9 | Time spent in careful planning at the beginning of a test can make the test more efficient and economical and save much time in its execution . |
| 10 | Over 15O staff from around the London area spent Sunday April 25 getting bruised and muddy while shooting each other in a Surrey wood . |
| 11 | It 's all scruffy and wet and looks all beat up . |
| 12 | Teaching is formal but the children seemed interested and responsive and managed some surprisingly good writing despite immense disabilities . |
| 13 | Once the contraceptive pill ( invented in 1952 ) had become available and accepted and made any further baby boom unlikely , years of frustrated and dammed-up feminism were ready to burst in the new wave of women 's liberation . |
| 14 | After the arrest of Chatichai and Arthit the coup was swift and bloodless and caused little disruption in Bangkok where the key installations were all placed under military control . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not possible to draw a line between human and human and say some do and some do not have the right to life , ’ he said . |
| 16 | She did n't talk much about her mother , who was rather withdrawn and authoritarian and spent most of her time playing bridge or playing the piano . |
| 17 | The monster had been named and tamed and destroyed all in an afternoon . |
| 18 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 19 | Now fill in the application form on pages 3 and 4 and detach these Notes . |
| 20 | In the water , it breathes with its gills like any normal fish , but like the bichir it uses its lungs too , rising every now and then to gulp air from the surface , a talent which is particularly valuable when the water in the pools becomes tepid and foul and loses most of its oxygen . |
| 21 | Bones in a baby 's foot are very soft and malleable and take some 18 years to harden completely . ’ |
| 22 | But you may have to think hard and long and reject many ideas that seemed promising before arriving at an ending to your book that is at once what everyone all along expected and what no one , or hardly anyone , thought would happen in that way . |
| 23 | It involves questioning and challenging and testing all views — those that represent the status quo — as well as those clamouring for change . |
| 24 | It is worth remembering that the UK at the time of this publication was already adrift of the best practice elsewhere , with fatality rates double those of the Netherlands for pedestrians and more than triple those of Sweden for children . |
| 25 | Immuno-histochemical tests showed that animals treated with capsaicin apparently lost all the substance P from the ganglia ( cell clusters ) containing sensory nerve cells ; those that had received NGF alone had even more substance P than untreated control animals , and those that received both had fewer cell bodies containing substance P , but such cells as they had stained more strongly for substance P than those in controls . |
| 26 | ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’ |
| 27 | finance ministers and central bankers will be more concerned than generals and defence ministers to keep the cow healthy , well fed and growing than to extract more milk in the form of taxation from the wretched animal . |
| 28 | But the speech was brief and unplatitudinous and earned many compliments . |
| 29 | From being a relatively happy , if somewhat timid , little girl Maxine became shy and secretive and spent many hours playing alone , either in the garden or in her bedroom . |
| 30 | The Vadis project ( video-audio digital interactive system ) aims to develop coding techniques to compress digital TV signals by a factor of between 20 and 40 while retaining most of the original quality . |