Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system .
2 More powerful even than the scent of newly-mowed grass or flickering glimpses of sky was the scent of my mother in her peach halter , her back slender and white , and the forever-ish trickly sound of her high giggle , the giggle of delight and fresh sloping green hills .
3 And both the American westward and the Russian eastward expansion had , of course , the same destination : the Orient .
4 This has a slimline rectangular body with a 1500 watt heating element , and a simple on/off switch .
5 Our July Surgery provides information on how to detect the state of a contact breaker in a magneto , the circuit of an experimental pulse comparator , and a simple a.m. radio tuner .
6 Teachers are unionized and a powerful enough group to prevent the decoupling of their salary levels from those of other public-sector employees , but none the less by 1985 they had seen the real value of their salaries fall to half their value a decade earlier .
7 Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle .
8 Roger from Ramsey was driving , and a good enough hand with horses and wagons , but what chance did he have with the pair of them drawing on him ?
9 The end product is an environment that is vulnerable to the slightest whim of the weather , and a dried out topsoil that disappears in the wind , leaving sand and bare rock .
10 Spinning is impractical , and a fierce enough heater would probably ignite the fabric .
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