Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam thought of himself and Rufus as being wild and laid-back at the same time , equally like that , young adventurers with all the world before them and all the time they wanted to do what they liked with . |
| 2 | Jonna looked at his fingerends , already cracked and sore from the outdoor work , even though winter had not begun . |
| 3 | Sometimes , since then , Lewis had wondered what would have happened if Adam had obeyed him and been kind and polite to the perverse old man . |
| 4 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 5 | If Finn thought he was going to play hell with her heart he was very much mistaken , and if her carefulness made her life less rich , then that was entirely her own lookout and preferable to the interesting anguish of the uncertain love affair . |
| 6 | Between the Sidlaw Hills and the Braes of Angus , the red loam of Strathmore has provided healthy cropping and stock-rearing since the twelfth century in spite of disruptive wars and civil strife . |
| 7 | The windows had a sly , mean look , and Fenella had the sudden impression that the Workshops were not workshops at all , but a single crouching monster , black and hard-backed and scaly on the outside , but possessed of roaring , flaming innards , so that every breath it took belched out hissing steam and curls and wisps of flame . |
| 8 | ‘ They bound along , eager and unquestioning across the icy wastes with the driver with the whip over them saying ‘ mush , mush ’ . |
| 9 | Indeed here more than anywhere we may detect the Council 's most characteristic of orientations in comparison with all other Councils : a concern with ‘ the signs of the time ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 4 and cf. 44 ) , things outside the Church 's own life , the major problems cultural , economic and political of the contemporary world . |
| 10 | The move from the international and political to the insular and personal was interrupted by something of a lull in the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | Do they get in trouble even though the players are not trying to be manipulative and political in the negative sense of the word ? |
| 12 | The composition of the new cabinet announced in February 1957 constituted Franco 's attempt to resolve the dilemma he faced by being both immobile and innovative at the same time ! |
| 13 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 14 | Furthermore , your Lordships may feel that it is inconvenient and undesirable for the criminal law as enunciated in Lawrence and Dobson to be in conflict with the law affecting the title to money and other kinds of property . |
| 15 | It would be impracticable and undesirable for the High Court of Justice to embark upon an inquiry concerning the effect or the effectiveness of the internal procedures in the High Court of Parliament or an inquiry whether in any particular case those procedures were effectively followed . |
| 16 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 17 | Nonetheless I am pleased that I did so and grateful to the SOED-sponsored grant scheme for assistance . |
| 18 | But Hambleton District Council opposes the move as the property lies in the heart of the town 's industrial estate and it says it is noisy and unsuitable for the old . |
| 19 | If that run continues against a Rangers side who have won their last 15 games , re-confirmed Skol Cup winners and supercharged by the prolific McCoist , then not even the attacking flair which destroyed Stuttgart 4-1 at Elland Road five weeks ago may be enough . |
| 20 | He would , perhaps , not have been so pushy and annoying to the other boys ; as that was the result of not being allowed to say what he felt in the past . |
| 21 | The Trade Union workshop addressed some important issues , although women admitted to feeling apathetic and emotional about the various campaigns they were waging in their workplaces . |
| 22 | In the third and fourth years , optional courses of increasing specialisation cover topics ranging from the molecular and cellular to the whole plant and its physiology , ecology and evolution . |
| 23 | Businesses like Chartered Papermill where one of our honourable friends will be opening a new plant er shortly where they have have won awards for quality , for training and for exports , national and regional during the last three years . |
| 24 | It would seem to be a basic condition of effective classroom practice that the setting in which children work should be consistent with and supportive of the particular learning tasks they are given . |
| 25 | But we also know that good experiences with objects in the environment also get forgotten and repressed in the same way . |
| 26 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |
| 27 | The N S , the N H S employs from the highly skilled and professional to the semi- skilled , manual workers , ancillary , clerical , maintenance , nursing and midwifery personnel , mostly locally based . |
| 28 | These soldiers were the most cruel and professional in the French army , Scottish exiles who served the French crown because of their hatred for England . |
| 29 | Because the Troodos ophiolite has been uplifted and eroded , a slice through successive layers of oceanic crust has been exposed , high and dry on the main hillsides of Cyprus . |
| 30 | The mints must be hard and dry for the best results and some produce , as I have seen , impressive flashes . |