Example sentences of "[noun] and [adj] [noun] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a constant tension in Acton 's writing between his assertion that the male sexual instinct was capable of intellectual and moral control and his stress on male sexuality as a powerful , inevitable expression of basic physiological processes . |
| 2 | This has been the aim of a large part of mankind 's intellectual and moral striving but it is our self-awareness and not intellectual procrastination which is the key that opens the door to the self . |
| 3 | The result of acquiring literacy , they conjecture , ‘ is not an ordinary language … it is the language of analytic thinking and explicit argument and it is the tool that has been adopted by science and philosophy and to a large extent by the formal school system ’ ( ibid. p. 10 ) . |
| 4 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
| 5 | ‘ I like the idea of organic food because it does n't get treated with pesticides and other chemicals and it 's better for the environment , too . |
| 6 | On Tuesday they all got together in the Trades and Labour Hall and they were very excited at that stage . |
| 7 | Our natural impulses towards mountains , waves , forests , and flowers may be less overt than those attaching to animals and other people but they are sustained by a fascination all their own . |
| 8 | Leeds ' first four games have produced 15 goals and seven points and they are within sight of surprise leaders QPR — while Liverpool have conceded six goals and collected just four points . |
| 9 | And to the sound of those notes , to the sound of the first simple phrase of that famous melody , Madame would lift the hem of her beaded silver and white dress and she would place her silver-shoed loot on the first of the six steps to the stage . |
| 10 | There were only six cows in the little cobbled byre with its low roof and wooden partitions and they all had names . |
| 11 | Seipei 's killer Gerry Richardson was sentenced to death two months ago , during his trial , Mrs Mandela was implicated in the abduction of Seipei and three others and their subsequent assault at her Soweto home . |
| 12 | Keith , I 've had a look at page one seven four , Chemical and Allied Industries and I ca n't find anything in there about the recent problems that we 've had at Allbright and Wilsons . |
| 13 | There was much talk and many meetings but nothing came of this venture , then in May 1909 , the question of a bridge between Halling and Wouldham was again debated . |
| 14 | They were smashing shops and burning cars and what |
| 15 | They started to eat different food , see different clothes and furniture in the shops and different houses and their perspective widened . |
| 16 | ‘ But there were 20 CDs in the car and other valuables and nothing had been taken . |
| 17 | Auditors should also consider the possibility of fraud and other irregularities and their effect on the truth and fairness of the view given in the financial statements . |
| 18 | The most interesting relationship in the data is the relatively high correlation between risk ratings and subsequent recall and it is worth investigating this in more detail . |
| 19 | We are a group with a specific condition and specific demands and we can not wait for socialism and structural changes to solve the problems tomorrow , which today are the cause of our limitations … |
| 20 | He says he 's tried guinea pig and dummy rabbit but there 's been no response and in answer to question says he hopesto she 'll break the diet tonight . |
| 21 | His hobby is fishing and do-it-yourself things and he 'll just go out and buy the tools and I think , ‘ Oh that money , what I could have done with that money ! ’ |
| 22 | He was taken straight to the canteen and given stew and something concealed under custard . |
| 23 | Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices . |
| 24 | I felt truly honoured to be asked on The Morecambe and Wise Show and I still do — I regard my appearance with them as the apotheosis of my career and I do n't say that lightly or gratuitously . |
| 25 | Grandfather was only suffering from a nagging cough and mild flu but he was , after all , somewhat of a grandee in the town because of his wealth . |
| 26 | Looking at visual illusions and perceptual errors and I ca what was the oth oh and the role of attention in perception . |
| 27 | the , the way we , the way I look it see , the way we 've been cut and slashed , and I 'm not just talking about high schools and first schools or anything right we 've been destroyed , we 've been literally thumped into the deck . |
| 28 | It 's a surprise too that the school has survived , but when they were killing off all the grammar schools in this country and turning them into comprehensives and middle schools and sixth-form colleges and everyone was getting shoved in with everyone else . |
| 29 | At this time , fears of a timber famine were being expounded as earlier laws had failed to redress the impact of lumber companies and agricultural development and it was becoming increasingly apparent that public lands were being sacked of their natural timber resources . |
| 30 | And I think if you look at lessons such as the Cambridge situation , you can have distances of separation between a new village and surrounding settlements and it 's as little as six hundred metres , depending on localized matters . |