Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corners of the mouth may be cracked and sore and the tongue unusually red . |
| 2 | The band 's onstage antics are almost as tacky and see-through as the music , and one ca n't help wondering if half their rehearsal time is n't taken up with mandatory pogoing practice . |
| 3 | It was anger , she 'd thought suddenly , anger as sharp and cruel as the blade of a knife , as if he 'd held her responsible for the desire so clearly etched into his arrogant , handsome face … |
| 4 | In the early stages and with a young horse the aids must be very clear and definite until the horse understands what is being asked of him and when he responds he must be rewarded with a stroke on the neck and soothing voice . |
| 5 | Instead , he seemed more calm and normal than the rest . |
| 6 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 7 | The more complicated and far-reaching that the clause is , the more likely it is to be ineffective . |
| 8 | As the hated capitalist rival , West Germany quickly took off with its economic miracle , for a long time East Germany remained poor , grim and repressive as the regime struggled to get a communist system working . |
| 9 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 10 | In the event , the election was considered to have been free and orderly because the party most openly opposed to military rule , the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , won some 80 per cent of seats in the new Assembly . |
| 11 | The perfect evening would be sometime in August when the heat of the summer is distilled and concentrated and the ground in the pine forests has become brown and crackly , the tarmac on the roads quite soft . |
| 12 | In fact , Thomas 's evidence became more ambiguous and confusing as the questioning went on , and taken with that of other witnesses , such as Fred Morton of Fellows , Morton and Clayton , it becomes clear that there were no realistic expectations of improvement of canal traffic , either in the form of coal or of other minerals with or without substantial reconstruction of the canal system . |
| 13 | She is usually just trying to be friendly and helpful and supportive when the love crazed imbecile is trying to explain that his wife does n't understand him … ( yawn ) . |
| 14 | Should the nobility refuse to cooperate , the monarchy would be left high and dry and the monarch himself would be unlikely to survive . |
| 15 | Kennel floors should be free of crevices and dry and the bedding should be disposed of daily . |
| 16 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 17 | When the atmosphere is hot and dry and the humidity low , skin also gets dehydrated . |
| 18 | Its body was hot and dry and the coat had lost its black lustre , so it stood up on end , pale brown and rumpled . |
| 19 | Often the battle is lost , and many a seaside town has disappeared beneath the waves ( while others , such as the once-thriving port of Rye in Kent , have been left high and dry as the sea retreated ) . |
| 20 | Huge and insidious and the Pope is behind it all . |
| 21 | The total work force equals 150 , it was noted that the workers all looked rather miserable and depressed and the working atmosphere was not at all pleasant . |
| 22 | She felt humiliated and depressed and the fact that Joanna and Ian seemed so close did nothing to lift her spirits . |
| 23 | The garden was very still , the bird-table empty , the room where the dying man lay as quiet and tranquil as the grave to which so soon he would be departing . |
| 24 | Indeed as the public domain has become more impersonal and technical so the family has increased in importance . |
| 25 | I was a bit dubious at first , but I was hot and sticky and the water looked tempting . |
| 26 | What they do then is scale a cliff , clambering from one ledge to another until they 're perched on one so high and narrow that the leopard ca n't follow . |
| 27 | John Burns takes up the story : ‘ The green is long and narrow and the approach shot has to be perfect . |
| 28 | And is not this medium exceedingly more rare and subtle than the air and exceedingly more elastic and active ? |
| 29 | I do n't want to see I I deeply deplore the divisions between left and right and the accentuation of often very phoney distinctions and mislabelling that goes on . |
| 30 | Just as it seems strange and unnecessary that the law should have to choose between duress as a complete defence to murder , and duress as no defence at all , so it seems strange and unnecessary that a killing which narrowly fails to come within the requirements of self-defence or other justifiable force should then be classified as murder . |