Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Most of us are nervous and apprehensive about job interviews . |
| 2 | He never worked long at another job and slipped easily between amateur and professional at boxing saloons in the Gorbals . |
| 3 | For those keen to explore , this is an ideal base from which to visit the lake 's jewel-like Borromean islands — delightful miniature attractions created in the 17th century and complete with summer palaces , art treasures and beautiful gardens . |
| 4 | The land is gently to steeply sloping and rocky on ridge crests , plateaux , in cols and on mid-slopes of mountains . |
| 5 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
| 6 | Of course , if you want the most sumptuous and subtle of string sonorities , Karajan 's 1971 version of the Second remains ( and is likely to remain ) unrivalled , although the present Lausanne Chamber Orchestra disc is none the less a strong contender . |
| 7 | It was long and low with dormer windows in the red-tiled roof . |
| 8 | His shock resignation was shrouded in mystery , although at the time his reasons were given as being ‘ personal and due to family matters . ’ |
| 9 | The interior of the church is centrally planned and rich with ceiling frescos of the Four Evangelists and the Glory of the Cross by V. V. Reiner . |
| 10 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 11 | They swoop and scream to a halt in a narrow street alive and garish with neon signs over narrow dark doorways . |
| 12 | And Max Jacob was there to help her , she informs her readers She found him far more useful and reliable in household matters than Modigliani . |
| 13 | Even Robert Bakker , a paleontologist now at Colorado University and one of the most original and interesting of dinosaur academics , has not , I suggest , given the subject of dinosaur size as much attention as it deserves , and consequently many of his arguments concerning metabolism , which we will examine in the next chapter , remain fatally flawed . |
| 14 | This is not only the most westerly point of the mainland of Scotland but of Britain also , being further west than the better known Land 's End in Cornwall and incomparably finer , quite unspoilt and free of tourist invasions and commercial enterprises . |
| 15 | RISCs are reliable and free from design errors , whereas with increasing complexity design errors are becoming more and more frequent among CISCs . |
| 16 | The tragedy is that many of these disorders are easily diagnosed ; all that is required is to take an adequate history and perform a mental state examination , procedures that are cheap and free from side effects . |
| 17 | Since they had become used to hospitals it was believed both unfair to them and impracticable in resettlement terms to ship them out to the community . |
| 18 | There were a few trees in the street , but they were an urban stock , splotched with dirt , twisted and stunted by city poisons . ’ |
| 19 | There were a few trees edging the pavement , but they were an urban stock , twisted and stunted by city poisons . |
| 20 | She could remember the old pier , too — falling down by then , too unsafe for anyone to be allowed on it — but in Gran 's day bustling and lively with peep shows , a funfair , and a small steam railway running the entire length . |
| 21 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 22 | Residential workers are faced with youngsters who are not only anxious and resentful about family events , but may also be mistrustful of those who try to help them . |
| 23 | It may be impracticable and unrealistic in segmentation terms for a company to try to incorporate into one product all the benefits and costs sought by all potential customers . |
| 24 | With a bank , for example , the money that it manages on behalf of its customers , and also the various financial services provided to its customers , are both entirely integral to and dependent on IT systems . |
| 25 | One of the most ambitious and colourful of diffusionist theories is undoubtedly that advanced by the English anatomist Eliot Smith ( 1871–1937 ) , a contemporary both of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown , who sought to explain the global distribution of mummification and other exotic practices . |
| 26 | Amongst the most evil and dangerous of fairy spirits . |
| 27 | JOHN PEEL remains wry and quizzical with session guests Fundamental and Small Factory . |
| 28 | INFORMATION , AND QUICK ABOUT IT Acronyms and abbreviations abound in the world of information technology . |
| 29 | So the fact that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ , and hence that the heat which is perceived and the bodily sensation can not be alike , can not constitute a proof that we are not justified in attributing heat and cold to material things . |
| 30 | What justifies us in attributing heat and cold to material things is our perceiving them to be hot and cold ; and they could still feel hot and cold to us even if we never felt hot or cold ourselves . |