Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if I am wrong and think of a dozen times , it is still dreadful that somebody so involved in the game is not out there watching the guys . |
| 2 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 3 | So often compelled to be distant , at close quarters she is frank , informal , funny , direct and possessed of an uncanny ability to charm the least star-struck . |
| 4 | The crypt was damp and smelled of the occupation of the past six nights . |
| 5 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 6 | Experimentally the system is extremely simple and consists of a device rather like a geiger counter filled with an inert gas and containing the atoms of the element in question . |
| 7 | It was found that although a four-week tutorial programme had been prepared , the children in the mainstream school were far more receptive and accepting of the situation and could not see any reason for delaying the child 's integration . |
| 8 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |
| 9 | More than six years ago Bank of Ireland advertised for school leavers with a high level of secondary education who were intelligent , energetic , ambitious and possessing of a high level of social skills . |
| 10 | The story of The Way To The Lantern is inspirational and tells of an actor called Robert during the time of the French Revolution who , by assuming different personae , evades the guillotine . |
| 11 | The bank on each side of the oak tree was bare and consisted of a light , gravelly soil . |
| 12 | In Britain an elected chamber of Parliament coexists with one that is wholly non-elected and consists of the descendants of an hereditary feudal aristocracy together with a minority composed of the beneficiaries of the patronage of successive prime ministers . |
| 13 | This is not to be wondered at , for it is both huge and beautiful and possessed of the most breathtaking spire in all Christendom . |
| 14 | An alternative way , however , is to see national cohesion as secondary and to think of the UK economy as simply one site where the forces of a worldwide , supranational economy are in play . |
| 15 | I wondered whether the flak was accurate and thought of the people fifteen thousand feet above us in Wellingtons , Stirlings and Hampdens , eating chocolate and plotting their track or weaving desperately and praying like tiny panic-stricken children . |
| 16 | The Cross is silver and consists of a thunderbolt in the form of a cross , the arms conjoined by the wings , base bar terminating with a bomb , surmounted by another cross composed of aeroplane propellers , the four ends inscribed with the Royal Cypher . |
| 17 | The Cross is silver and consists of a cross flory terminated in the horizontal and base bars with flaming bombs and in the upper bar with a Tudor rose . |
| 18 | ( Actually the ‘ stream ’ , in this case , is more likely to mean the seeping and trickling of the groundwater than a rushing open river . |
| 19 | It is significant that the Prussian army , the most successful and admired of the age , used a heavy musket which was generally regarded as the worst in Europe . |
| 20 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 21 | ‘ the men at the top of organizations will tend to be ambitious , shrewd and possessed of a non-demanding moral code . |
| 22 | If it is not legible and consists of a series of private squiggles you have already jeopardised your chances of passing the examination . |
| 23 | The room had fallen deathly silent except for Cranston 's abrupt questions , the equally abrupt answers and the snapping and crackling of the logs in the fire . |
| 24 | But , more important , I believe that celebration of the other and devaluing of the self is one of the oldest , as it is one of the permanent ways by which human beings express love or admiration for each other . |
| 25 | Trembling , he hugged the most worn and shortened of the punches to his heart , thumbing its point , and wrestled with the words of compliance that rose all too readily . |
| 26 | He was highly cultured and came of a family of minor nobility . |
| 27 | Barth and Brunner moved on from that position and came to focus their attention on the re-working and re-stating of the main classical Christian doctrines , especially of christology , in which they believed the meaning and content of the revelation was explicated . |