Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise of wheels on uneven roads mingled with the voices of the elite as they alighted at their respective destinations and made their slow and stately way into the houses which had lights in every room from attic to cellar . |
| 2 | In a poem like the ‘ Express ’ I believe we are dealing with a very involved , indeed fanatical , view of the journey , movement and stately presence of a train which seems to overpower not just the author himself but also the very universe and natural world in which it exists . |
| 3 | Iris had an American cousin staying with her and had been too busy dragging him round every art gallery and stately home in the county to have time for her . |
| 4 | At the time they were living — ‘ pigging it ’ was the term they used — in a large and lush apartment in the best residential section . |
| 5 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 6 | They probably include the nature of the intraluminal contents , the emotional and metabolic state of the patient , and the location of the recording devices . |
| 7 | Future plans for the Orangerie include the appointment of a professional director with financial acumen and specific experience of the art business . |
| 8 | Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual . |
| 9 | Censorship of literature on political grounds was by no means new as Thompson 's history shows , and both Thompson and Noyce have demonstrated that the censorship of newspapers in particular ( especially those from the hard and radical left ) is common and endemic , so why this new and specific response by the Library Association ? |
| 10 | How can the Secretary of State conceivably claim that Her Majesty 's inspectorate is to be strengthened when its numbers are to be cut by two thirds and it is to be subject to clear and specific direction from the Secretary of State ? |
| 11 | We have discussed earlier ( Chapter 2 ) inflation risk , which is common to all bonds , and specific risk in the form of either business risk or financial risk , which depends on the industry or corporation that issues the bond . |
| 12 | And for ‘ leadfree ’ read ‘ low-fat ’ — something every sensitive and alert driver in the fast lane of life knows is important ! |
| 13 | Table I gives a summary of the sociodemographic characteristics and parental smoking of the four groups . |
| 14 | Two hundred years after the Declaration of the Rights of Man took place in France , 200 years after that historic announcement of tolerance and emancipation , we can still see the practice of the most odious and cruel despotism by a man who is the execration of humankind , who is directly and personally responsible for crimes against humanity , and crimes against justice . |
| 15 | But the formality and hierarchical nature of the relationships still struck her . |
| 16 | Our aim is to break down patriarchal and hierarchical power within the family . |
| 17 | However , to say that the state is autonomous of external control does not imply that the personnel who staff key policy-making roles are guaranteed centralized , co-ordinated and hierarchical control over a ‘ machine ’ , let alone one capable of perfect administration with zero implementation failure . |
| 18 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 19 | Rising levels of output , high employment , rising living standards and expanded trade within a relatively stable framework of international finance marked the ‘ long post-war boom ’ that stretched from the mid-1940s through the 1950s , 1960s and part of the 1970s . |
| 20 | A second , revised and expanded edition of The Bank ( Whitby , 1822 ) earned a passage to the southern states of America , her ninth Atlantic crossing . |
| 21 | It 's hailed as the completely revised and expanded edition of the international bestseller . |
| 22 | Benoit Mandelbrot 's central idea presented here in a revised and expanded version of an essay first published in English five years ago , is that many of Nature 's forms have irregularities so extreme that they are best described not by the one-dimensional curves and two-dimensional surfaces of conventional geometry but as intermediate shapes ( ’ fractals ’ ) whose dimensionality need not be a whole number . |
| 23 | While Shatov expounds and disputes ardently , and incidentally takes a lot of good- and God-focused material off the shoulders of the notebook Stavrogin ( ‘ ‘ Shatov must be tied up before you can argue with him , ' ’ Stepan Verkhovensky sometimes joked' ) , only to Kirillov can it be said and is it said , ‘ you have n't swallowed an idea , but an idea has swallowed you ’ — to which he responds delightedly with ‘ That 's good . |
| 24 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 25 | The vegetational and floristic history of the Outer Hebrides can be summarised as one of progressive impoverishment . |
| 26 | There were two sets of executions of those convicted of drug trafficking and armed banditry in the north-east city of Mashad in early October and on Oct. 14 , and in Zahedan on Oct. 1 . |
| 27 | Raynsford , 25 , of St Johns Road , Clacton , and Kemp , 24 , of The Avenue , Clacton , have both been charged with armed robbery at John Stiffs estate agents in St Osyth and armed robbery at a Chinese takeaway in Coppins Road . |
| 28 | It is equally possible though that she will show no signs whatever of anger in her grief and instead may become apathetic and drained of all energy and normal drive for a time . |
| 29 | The mean value of the residual Q was 3.0 ; the standard error in the phase difference between the anomalous and normal part of the structure , ( ) , was 21° . |
| 30 | I detest Picasso who , instead of handing ‘ Guernica ’ over to the town whose name it usurped , left his battered and decrepit work to the Reina Sofía hospital after its reanimation in the Prado clinic . |