Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'll be using a wheelbarrow frequently , then make risers low and treads deep , to make is easier to manoeuvre — or build a separate ramp for it . |
| 2 | The Book of Kells has not survived the centuries complete and has lost some of its printed pages , or perhaps the plan for the illumination was never completed . |
| 3 | This has left morale and funds low and has resulted in schools having to turn to Parent-Teacher Associations and businesses , in order to provide bare essentials like textbooks . |
| 4 | Or was the Leader of the Opposition wrong and does the hon. Gentleman agree with that ? |
| 5 | ‘ So what is the connection between King John and a girl who herds swine on Ridgery Steep and goes holidaying with outlaws ? ’ |
| 6 | If a Rottweiler is eligible for registration with the AKC , he can compete at any licensed dog show , as long as he is at least six months old and does not have a disqualifying fault . |
| 7 | He is now 10.5 months old and has made no developmental progress since the time of his injury which he sustained at the age of four weeks . |
| 8 | It is some three centuries old and commemorates three individuals , two men and a woman , who died in the sectarian ‘ killing times ’ of this period . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , evaluation of both these factors is difficult and labour intensive and requires a longer timescale than that usually acceptable to policymakers and budget setters . |
| 10 | In this article , by LTP we mean synaptic potentiation , which is both NMDA receptor-dependent and lasts for more than an hour . |
| 11 | The neck is fixed to the body exactly as on the Teardrop , and my comment about the strap button on that guitar also applies here ; the Phantom is very neck heavy and needs all the help it can get to stay on an even keel . |
| 12 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 13 | A cockerel goes cock-a-doodle-do , and a prostitute stands with her legs open and says any cock 'll do . |
| 14 | Painted to represent an aircraft that operated from USAAF Station 234 , Mount Farm , the fighter is adorned with the correct shade of PRU blue and carries the US Star 'n Bar insignia of the 7th Photographic Group , with the aircraft 's serial repeated in large yellow lettering across the fin and rudder . |
| 15 | A new French contender in the object database stakes has emerged in the shape of Matisse , from Intellitic International SA , of Saint Quentin en Yvelines — and Waltham , Massachusetts-based parallel computer systems manufacturer Kendall Square Research Inc and says that after an extensive vendor review to select an object-oriented database developer whose technology would best complement the KSR1 architecture , it concluded that Intellitic 's Matisse was the most suitable . |
| 16 | An offeror who later attempts to add a material new condition to the offer document may be required to withdraw it by the Panel ( see the Panel Statement of 24 January 1983 on Bassishaw Investments Limited and UDS Property Group plc ) . |
| 17 | Artist gets girl pregnant and paints her ( in which order is not clear ) . |
| 18 | ( My red-tailed buzzard , on the other hand , can drag a fully grown rabbit in her claws , but then she is two feet tall and weighs 3 pounds or more , nearly four times Dawn 's weight . ) |
| 19 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 20 | Now he is outside the car I see that he is a little over six feet tall and carries no more spare flesh than does an iron poker . |
| 21 | I have also received five M. dealbata seeds collected in Mexico via Lenarth Jonsson ; all five germinated and one of these is now some eight feet tall and has a special place at Lanhydrock . |
| 22 | This magnificent beast stands six feet high and requires almost constant stoking . |
| 23 | The one at Ghent ( 1300–39 ) is 400 feet high and stands uncompromisingly four square , surmounted by an elegant spire . |
| 24 | The statue is 5.5m high and weighs 20 tonnes . |
| 25 | This change-over was completed in April 1988 and all McDonald 's foam packaging produced in the UK is now CFC free and carries the CFC FREE message , reassuring customers of this change . |
| 26 | ( ceased to be a member of the Institute on 14 July 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs in due time under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 27 | ( He ceased to be a member of the Institute on 3 September 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 28 | This section is c. 900 feet long and crosses the valley 180 feet above the River Gard . |
| 29 | It is 281 feet long and weighs nearly I , 500 tons . |
| 30 | It is over 800 feet long and contains some 2500 human figures . |