Example sentences of "[adj] and [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her personality was drab , earnest and humourless and her appearance calculatedly unattractive . |
| 2 | Secondly , he ignored folk memory of the English and the noble Scottish and their depredations : à propos , a story came to light much later , and recurs in local annals and in the works of many Johnsonian students |
| 3 | Money was not lacking : George Cadbury promised £600 a year for five years beginning in 1895 and his brother , Richard , agreed to do the same . |
| 4 | Aghredien , who played for SARU and is classified as coloured ( his father was Malayan and his mother Norwegian ) , has been working hand in hand with Bill Cunningham — a back-row forward , who played for the Springboks on their 1959 internal tour — to develop rugby in townships around Port Elizabeth for nearly two decades . |
| 5 | Hugh Despenser the younger had already petitioned the king on the grounds that the charges against him were erroneous and his condemnation illegal , particularly because so few prelates were present in the parliament which gave judgement . |
| 6 | The tiny samples of lacquer were progressively heated to about 350o C , ionised and their decomposition products analysed in a quadrupole mass spectrometer . |
| 7 | What could be the grounds for this and their success ? |
| 8 | The Junkers , predictably , wanted none of this and their interests in the government , civil service and the military persuaded the government to continue shoring up the ailing Ost-Elbian estate system through continued tariff protection , artificially high grain prices and a policy of grants and loans . |
| 9 | We 'd look to advice from the Ministry of Agriculture on this and their view to m their their willingness to make a positive contribution to the development of the e er assessment in terms of the er erm the availability and distribution of the the best and most versatile land . |
| 10 | Her surprise at this and her immediate step backwards allowed the other one , now passing behind her , the opportunity to wrench her handbag from her grasp . |
| 11 | Julie had bathed on the previous evening and in view of this and her discomfort it was agreed that shaving and skin preparation would be carried out in theatre . |
| 12 | She did not understand why they should be doing this and her failure to understand reminded her of something . |
| 13 | The proposed change involved the deletion of this and its substitution by the following : |
| 14 | This and its position , perched on steep ground yet effectively sheltered by the hillside behind , make it one of Lakeland 's finest climbing crags . |
| 15 | This and its tributaries , helped to create a thriving cloth trade in Painswick . |
| 16 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 17 | JET is very near to this and its present programme may achieve this . |
| 18 | The process leading up to this and its likely consequences for teaching are discussed in detail in the article by Walsh . |
| 19 | Usually , a pregnant goat will not come on heat , but there are exceptions to both this and its converse . |
| 20 | Judging from this and its unusual style , the key could be late in period ( 3rd or 4th century ) , although I have no hard evidence to support this view . |
| 21 | Er , I do n't know what , and I think he , we he sent for that book , I sent for this and its different issues which you can possibly used in erm P S D se er , etcetera and there 's a number which I feel work across the years rather than just you know , sort of one year book for example there 's a a unit there Terry and |
| 22 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 23 | Oh I 'll wear this and me leggings do n't think we 'll need to take a dressing gown do you ? |
| 24 | If your current account is with Barclays , you can easily arrange for sums to be transferred between this and your Capital Advantage account . |
| 25 | ‘ This and your land , ’ Loppe had added , after a silence . |
| 26 | Forget this and your report will fail . |
| 27 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 28 | He commented specifically on this and his use of the Faulkner quotation by saying , ‘ When the writer has some urgency to speak , the subject matter becomes almost irrelevant . ’ |
| 29 | He lost some of his sparkle after this and his final game for us was at Swindon on Easter Monday 1935 when he scored our goal in a l-l draw . |
| 30 | Charles Reid also has a tape on painting flowers and in this and his other fine , lively and entertaining videos , Portraits in Watercolour and The Figure in Watercolour ( Teaching Art Ltd ) he stresses the importance of light . |