Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 2 | The aqueous solution was made fresh daily and used in the rats at a dose 10 times higher ( 50 µg/kg ) than that shown in separate experiments on these animals to reduce by 50% the platelet activating factor induced hypotension ( ID 5 =5 µg/kg ip ) . |
| 3 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 4 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 5 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 6 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |
| 7 | There is still an element of polarisation , however , which proclaims ‘ belief in the old and distrust in the new ’ . |
| 8 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 9 | Again , Yanto managed to grab the tail , and yet again the fish broke free and leapt in the air . |
| 10 | The sun was high and bright as he dropped gently out of the hills towards the vale , faintly misted with vapour , and saw in the far distance before him the mole-hill of Ruthyn , hunched and veiled in the smoke of its house-fires , a delicate blue flower in the sparkling folded green , with the giant hogback of Moel Famau towering beyond . |
| 11 | The MSG promotes contacts between academics , civil servants , Bank of England officials , private bankers , stockbrokers , and others interested and working in the fields of money and banking , finance , and macroeconomic policy . |
| 12 | It is healthy ; it is strong ; and I think it will continue to grow and become even more exciting and challenging in the future . |
| 13 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 14 | He traces the origins of contemporary attitudes to professionalism and public services , to the Victorian period , and argues that the model we have inherited is outmoded and stands in the way of improving professionally relationships . |
| 15 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 16 | Will society want them to be literate and numerate in the senses we now use the words ? |
| 17 | The chef promises to deliver a three course meal for your dinner party , cooked and served in the manner of the Roman era … complete with togas . |
| 18 | Something inhuman bellowed and roared in the stairwell . |
| 19 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 20 | He pulled out of the dive and cleared the target area , every joint and spar in the aeroplane shuddering under the strain . |
| 21 | Wisely he opted to keep it simple and put in the name David . |
| 22 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 23 | The caterers arrived too early and got in the way of the woman who was doing the flowers . |
| 24 | We were early and stood in the playground . |
| 25 | But why start early and finish in the middle of the day ? |
| 26 | Now they stand swaying in front of me , easy and relaxed in the dark . |
| 27 | With so many parameters to consider , it is helpful to have a system ensuring that the criteria are consistent and applied in the same order . |
| 28 | With so many parameters to consider , it is helpful to have a system ensuring that the criteria are consistent and applied in the same order . |
| 29 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 30 | ‘ I know you 're a demon worker too — but just look at you right now , all golden-limbed and relaxed in the sun . |