Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its body is held upright and what was the dorsal fin has become an undulating rear engine , which with the help of whirling pectorals on either side , enables it to move erect and stately through the corals and weed forests . |
| 2 | An investigation has started into an attack on a pony which was left dead and mutilated in a field . |
| 3 | Amuni was subjected to the burlap sack torture : handcuffed and hooded in a sack , she was bound in a standing position to an iron bar for hours . |
| 4 | George was generous and conciliatory to an extent that Coleridge can hardly have expected . |
| 5 | The face had changed — there was something unkind , and cruel about the mouth . |
| 6 | There was something unkind , and cruel about the mouth . |
| 7 | There is love in it , and hate , and fear , and a man called Heathcliff , who is strong and cruel like the devil himself . |
| 8 | All four were extraordinarily clever , given to fantasy and melancholy , and impractical to the point of danger . |
| 9 | Singer Carol Van Dijk tries to get all mournful and bittersweet in an Edie Brickell vein , but her English-as-second-language lyrics and mellifluous mouth-full-of-marbles phrasing give each composition a fragmented , disclosed aura . |
| 10 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 11 | In the roaring and raging of the conflagration , a red-hot wind , driving straight from the infernal regions , seemed to be blowing the edifice away . |
| 12 | This kind of erm usage of nuclear physics is often of a lot of interest and understandable to a child in the third form . |
| 13 | British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England have therefore co-operated to make the site more readily accessible and understandable to the public . |
| 14 | They should be able to present research findings in terms that are relevant and understandable to the client . |
| 15 | We should not be quite so narrow-minded , blinkered and xenophobic about the rest of the world . |
| 16 | Their advice , even today when it is more flexible and politically sensitive , consequently often falls on deaf ears , not because the economic logic is at fault but because the political factors in the equation are both unquantifiable and subjective for the decision takers . |
| 17 | An ugly church , monstrous and vulgar as the cloth merchants who had built it . |
| 18 | The campaign against the Scots was operated with ruthless efficiency , and was violent and vengeful in the extreme . |
| 19 | Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult . |
| 20 | Her own voice sounded harsh and metallic inside the spacesuit helmet . |
| 21 | This is preferable to bathing the whole dog , as constant bathing softens the coat , making it difficult to hand-strip and untypical of the breeds . |
| 22 | This project seeks to answer a particular question : whether a child learning English and Spanish between the ages of one and three is learning one language system or two . |
| 23 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 24 | We wholeheartedly agree that the situation we currently face is regrettable and undesirable for the running of a happy , successful school to the benefit of the children , teachers and village . |
| 25 | His advice , therefore , may be rejected as uninformed and undesirable by the footballers ( even though events prove it to be correct ) . |
| 26 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 27 | He woke at three with a recurrence of the old nightmare-drowning and helpless in a deluge of glutinous liquid in which paradoxically there was also a ball of fire . |
| 28 | We look for a hand to hold , a shoulder to weep on , another body to cling to — anything that will reassure us that we are not alone , abandoned and helpless in the face of forces we do not understand . |
| 29 | Will the artificial and shallow-minded of the world ever recognise the beauty of natural values and not shrug it off as sky-high idealism ? |
| 30 | Meanwhile , residents in Goddard Avenue are glad that the excavation is complete and grateful to the police for keeping disruption to a minimum . |