Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George was generous and conciliatory to an extent that Coleridge can hardly have expected . |
| 2 | Were this my last hour ( and that of an octogenarian can not be far off ) I would thank God for permitting me to behold so much of the excellence conferred on individuals . |
| 3 | Clearly differentiating between your own expertise and that of an expert is a critical executive skill |
| 4 | The MD will normally be an executive director , with a contract setting out his or her powers and duties , and terms of employment ; thus the MD has a dual role — that of director and that of an employee . |
| 5 | The distinction between the effect of a deed under seal , and that of an agreement by parol , or by writing not under seal , may seem arbitrary , but it is established in our law ; nor is it really unreasonable or practically inconvenient that the law should require particular solemnities to give a gratuitous contract the force of a binding obligation . |
| 6 | The parallel between this way of thinking , and that of an engineer designing an air-conditioning system , is obvious . |
| 7 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 8 | He does not hunt high and low for an animal to use instead . |
| 9 | Some people — grim arrivistes in the kingdom of the mind — talk about training your memory , making it fit and agile like an athlete . |
| 10 | Ronny is wanted by 6 or 7 norw. clubs — some want him as a central defender , some as central midfielder , some as a wide midfielder and some as an attacker . |
| 11 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 12 | It is also the most widely used general classification scheme on the Continent of Europe , and this in an environment where libraries have not generally seen the virtue of published classification schemes , preferring to use their own private schemes . |
| 13 | The next morning , an early start , window shopping in the streets of Paris and half of an hour with our heads buried in the Michelin and Gault Millau guides while taking in the air and the haute couture from the vantage point of our pavement cafe . |
| 14 | She drew Modigliani reading by lamplight in Nice , absorbed and distinguished with an air of apartness . |
| 15 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 16 | There was a crutch lying on the ground beside him and another at an angle under his right arm . |
| 17 | But now that it is in power , and dependent on an assembly made up largely of landowners , the government seems to find that option less attractive . |
| 18 | Giardini , though generous with other promoters ' money ( he was responsible for doubling the fees paid to orchestral players ) , was unscrupulous and devious as an impresario . |
| 19 | The contrast between section 9(4) and section 3 lies in the fact that section 9(4) applies at the moment when the court is called upon to consider an application for an order under the Act , whereas section 3 applies only after and subject to an order being made . |
| 20 | This makes it more difficult for light from the star to escape , and the light appears dimmer and redder to an observer at a distance . |
| 21 | Only one feature of his thought can be mentioned here , but it is both central to this sort of Hegelian theology and typical of an approach which has appealed to many others as well . |
| 22 | The Leger Gallery was founded in 1892 by Joseph Leger , whose activities were ‘ modest as a dealer in the period up to the end of the Great War and typical of an age in which there were few private clients and virtually no museum purchases ’ astonishing in view of the purchasing possibilities at the time . |
| 23 | The central issue at stake is simple and crucial to an understanding of Russian history . |
| 24 | They still love them but feel so undermined and out of control that they become more aggressive and violent in an attempt to finally gain power . |
| 25 | Their movements are graceful and controlled , their minds are quick and clever with an intensity and depth of insight which makes them seem fey and strange to other races . |
| 26 | She was clever , capable and resourceful as an agent , and acceptable to Rokovssky as his confederate on this mission of assassination . |
| 27 | However , it is now known that the Moon is devoid of seas , and devoid of an atmosphere as well . |
| 28 | Having said that , though , there is undoubtedly something wild and magnificent about an institution quite as cussed , mercurial and downright weird as the NME making it through four decades of turbulent cultural and commercial waters . |
| 29 | Some of the councillors consider they are out of keeping with their surroundings and inappropriate in an AONB . |
| 30 | In contrast to impact melt and melt breccias within and proximal to an impact crater , tektite-like impact glasses are early-formed total melts that are rapidly quenched , and thus more likely to show a less complicated mixing relationship . |