Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 32 | The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before . |
| 33 | The grass rolled in waves , glistening and gleaming as it undulated . |
| 34 | It is black and gleaming and it gives his wife Meriel the willies . |
| 35 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 36 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 37 | In fact , the response was so uniform and repetitious that it started to irritate him before long . |
| 38 | As he rushes hither and thither , his note-books become crammed with an amazing collection of miscellaneous information which is so diverse and uneven that it gives colour to and so in a way explains Robert Lowie 's famous definition of culture as a ‘ thing of shreds and patches ’ . |
| 39 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 40 | His shaggy , walrus moustache was deeper coloured , streaky , with irony grey still in it and it was brown and sodden where it dipped into his own , special , pint-size mug which had the word ‘ Father ’ executed on it in rosebuds . |
| 41 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 42 | Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief . |
| 43 | ‘ It was warm and personal and it felt right for him , ’ says Marie . |
| 44 | This again met with a cool reception from the other five , first because it might foreclose the question of EEC enlargement , and second because it seemed to seek to push the EEC more in an intergovernmental direction . |
| 45 | This is an important observation : first because it begins to reconcile the geochemical constraints on magma source region with geophysical models of large-scale plume-related magma generation , and second because it confirms the importance of the SCLM as a substantial contributory source region for basaltic magmatism . |
| 46 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 47 | The campaign became increasingly bitter and rancorous as it progressed . |
| 48 | Plenty of clever , talented children seem to make slow progress at learning skills which they know their parents care about — like reading — while showing remarkable confidence and daring when it comes to the things their parents ignore , like swinging upside down , or building complicated models out of Lego . |
| 49 | The types have also been used to describe processes such as denominationalisation , in which a sect becomes less inward-looking and world-rejecting as it accommodates to the rest of society . |
| 50 | I know but you but you see if it came to be something big and serious and it went into the newspaper he would . |
| 51 | The September night was hot and humid but it did not perturb Constance as she struggled through the crowds of noisy , gesticulating passengers purposefully carrying cardboard boxes , mattresses and crates of chickens down the long platform . |
| 52 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 53 | The result would be a diagram which becomes ever more precise and explicit as it moves from left to right , with a long list of fairly narrowly defined functions on the right-hand side . |
| 54 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 55 | It 's long and shiny and it takes me ages to do it . |
| 56 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 57 | Moderator could the convenor tell us why the Board wishes to be discharged its remit on health and healing when it 's been so successful in bringing this to the notice of the whole church ? |
| 58 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 59 | Again , it avoided the words black and white but it classified people as patrials and non-patrials ; in general terms , patrials , who can come and go as they wish , are almost always white ; non-patrials are almost never white . |
| 60 | The floor was paved with marble flagstones , black and white so it looked like a chessboard , and on this had been laid the thickest rugs from Persia , India and Turkey . |