Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its body is held upright and what was the dorsal fin has become an undulating rear engine , which with the help of whirling pectorals on either side , enables it to move erect and stately through the corals and weed forests . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Four pre-teen girls were abducted , molested and mutilated in a serial killing spree the New York Times described as very ‘ un-Japanese ’ . |
| 4 | An investigation has started into an attack on a pony which was left dead and mutilated in a field . |
| 5 | Jonna looked at his fingerends , already cracked and sore from the outdoor work , even though winter had not begun . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Amuni was subjected to the burlap sack torture : handcuffed and hooded in a sack , she was bound in a standing position to an iron bar for hours . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | It is easier when you are feeling fresh and alert after a good night 's sleep than at the end of a busy day , easier for short periods than for long periods . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | George was generous and conciliatory to an extent that Coleridge can hardly have expected . |
| 12 | The face had changed — there was something unkind , and cruel about the mouth . |
| 13 | There was something unkind , and cruel about the mouth . |
| 14 | There is love in it , and hate , and fear , and a man called Heathcliff , who is strong and cruel like the devil himself . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All four were extraordinarily clever , given to fantasy and melancholy , and impractical to the point of danger . |
| 17 | Singer Carol Van Dijk tries to get all mournful and bittersweet in an Edie Brickell vein , but her English-as-second-language lyrics and mellifluous mouth-full-of-marbles phrasing give each composition a fragmented , disclosed aura . |
| 18 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the roaring and raging of the conflagration , a red-hot wind , driving straight from the infernal regions , seemed to be blowing the edifice away . |
| 21 | ‘ They bound along , eager and unquestioning across the icy wastes with the driver with the whip over them saying ‘ mush , mush ’ . |
| 22 | It was white and frilly with a long , long skirt . |
| 23 | One bright young man who some years before had been a ‘ star ’ pupil , and assured of a successful career in technology said he had ruined his chances by joining the demonstrations . |
| 24 | This kind of erm usage of nuclear physics is often of a lot of interest and understandable to a child in the third form . |
| 25 | British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England have therefore co-operated to make the site more readily accessible and understandable to the public . |
| 26 | They should be able to present research findings in terms that are relevant and understandable to the client . |
| 27 | He admitted taking the car without consent , driving while unfit through drink , without insurance and unaccompanied by a qualified motorist , and failing to report an accident . |
| 28 | We should not be quite so narrow-minded , blinkered and xenophobic about the rest of the world . |
| 29 | Their advice , even today when it is more flexible and politically sensitive , consequently often falls on deaf ears , not because the economic logic is at fault but because the political factors in the equation are both unquantifiable and subjective for the decision takers . |
| 30 | 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 . |