Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd never seen stars like he 'd seen them around here , cold and diamond-sharp and so many .
2 It is a savage and immensely powerful piece of sculpture , reminding one that Christianity is not a religion of sweetness and light and that much of its appeal must have lain in its very primitivism .
3 As time went on and Basil began showing me all of these things , it gradually came over me that it would be nice for the American people to see that English art was much more variegated and lively than just these big portraits .
4 Poor love , he was so fair-skinned he could n't tolerate much sun and Majorca was sunnier and hotter than ever this season , according to him .
5 The history of that provision and its abolition demonstrates clearly that income arising in an overseas company which is , for instance , owned by an overseas trust , is not income arising under a settlement for the purposes of TA 1988 , Part XV , Chapters III and IV or indeed any of the other provisions of Part XV .
6 All the photos were taken between 1980 and 1981 and nearly all were shot in the vicinity of Petticoat Lane .
7 THE Ulster Grasscourt championships will be bigger and better than ever this year .
8 The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure .
9 This survey is elegantly produced and more than just another picture book .
10 Two hundred and five and then that on a ninety six
11 These soils are often cold and waterlogged and traditionally this is an area of deciduous woodland with small pasture fields .
12 It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding .
13 It is thus both puzzling and worrying that so many brewers are still apparently obsessed with eradicating the uniqueness of the individual historic pub , effectively destroying what has been a familiar and secure social centre in their attempts to ‘ improve ’ upon a successful , time-honoured formula .
14 The user community will run into thousands and thousands and therefore this is our biggest investment in our I T infrastructure .
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