Example sentences of "and [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lips were smiling lovingly , but his eyes were hard and unfeeling as jet . |
| 2 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 3 | A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! |
| 4 | Daisy Chainsaw try to shock and scare and upset as art terrorists detonating nailbombs in the nursery , subverting our notions of how a little girly and her backing bullies should behave , and fail dismally . |
| 5 | An addict only stops when he personally comes to the conclusion that his addiction is bringing him more trouble and suffering than pleasure . |
| 6 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 7 | As a boy I was always taught to use a sod of turf as a foundation , so that the eggs would remain slightly damp , and to build a snug nest of hay on top of it - and the barn wall was knobbly , draughty and dry as dust . |
| 8 | In the heart of the great metropolitan areas of America the inner cities became as desolate and hopeless as shanty towns . |
| 9 | It is probably the case that the weaker areas of the relevant nations will lose most from this action , since regional disparities tend to widen when aggregate demand falls and narrow when demand rises . |
| 10 | Her back so hot , and slick as ice . |
| 11 | The fact that most of them already had criminal records was widely publicised and used as evidence of their guilt in the Chai Qing Feng case . |
| 12 | and used as evidence of provocative atrocities that would justify invading Poland . |
| 13 | The extract thus achieved ( α antigen ) was diluted in carbonate-bicarbonate buffer pH 9.5 and used as substrate for ELISA . |
| 14 | Many bacteria can also be isolated from insects and may be important in the natural control of insect populations , but the only bacteria which have been extensively studied and used as pest control agents are Bacillus spp . |
| 15 | Accurate and comprehensive claims are prepared from data retained and used as management information and estimating source information . |
| 16 | Title was acquired by terrestrial airline and used as inflight reading under editorship of William Davies . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , some wooded areas were more intensively settled and used as time went on . |
| 18 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 19 | The antibody to pepsinogen A showed no cross reactivity with pepsinogen C , whereas the antibody to pepsinogen C did not cross react with pepsinogen A. Purified human pepsinogen A and pepsinogen C were coupled to 1 2 5 I by the chloramine T method and used as label in the assays . |
| 20 | The really gigantic spiders are sometimes captured and used as barter , but mostly these enormous creatures are avoided because they are too dangerous . |
| 21 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 22 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |
| 23 | flat and liquid as sleep , |
| 24 | She ran on , her voice as smooth and rich as cream . |
| 25 | If trees are young they should be removed , but with mature trees felling can lead to ground recovery and swell as moisture returns , thus causing even worse damage . |
| 26 | While the younger members of the family are treated by the British press and public as stock characters in some soap opera , when one of them speaks , on architecture , AIDS or literacy , the news media none the less report their comments seriously . |
| 27 | Cambridge Veterinary Sciences , Littleport , Cambs , has launched a rapid five-minute Mastcheck 24-test pack for subclinical mastitis detection , claimed to be more accurate and reliable than cell counts alone . |
| 28 | Other furs were attractive as novelties or as luxuries but the beaver trade was steady and reliable until silk hats replaced felted beaver hair in the early decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Some days knobs of shit as hard and beadlike as rabbit droppings fell away from her . |
| 30 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |