Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting blood pressure increase can rupture a blood vessel ( haemorrhage ) or a globule of fat can become detached and block a vessel ( thrombosis ) . |
| 2 | The Stravinsky , if more detached and calculated a piece , equally engages the senses here in the incisiveness of Zimmermann 's playing , his thrust , his fullness of sound , the quiet restraint he shows in the concerto 's plaintive moments . |
| 3 | But actually it 's the reverse , since it 's a struggle to get detached and find a perspective that balances my own inside knowledge against the spectrum of differing views of their fans , detractors and those unfortunate enough to be indifferent to them . |
| 4 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 5 | Silent , humourless and reserved , Haig was also shrewd and ambitious and had unbounded self-esteem . |
| 6 | On arrival at the theatre I was met by Mr and Mrs Alexander Heymeyer , the latter was originally Scottish and born on the Isle of Skye . |
| 7 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 8 | The easily identifiable tartan mark is your guarantee that the salmon you are buying is genuinely Scottish and produced in accordance with a stringent set of quality standards , enforced by Food From Britain inspectors . |
| 9 | Where the negligent misrepresentation induces a contract between the parties , it may be more advantageous to proceed under s2(1) of the 1967 Act , not least because it reverses the onus of proof by placing it upon the seller ( see Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden and Sons ( Excavations ) Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 574 ) . |
| 10 | In Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden and Sons ( Excavations ) Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 574 , a case decided under s3 of the 1967 Act , Lord Denning considered the following factors to be relevant : the parties were of equal bargaining position , the representation made was innocent , and in any case the plaintiffs had failed to prove that they had reasonable grounds for believing the truth of the statement . |
| 11 | This demonstrates that there are indeed certain junctions which both tend to be rated as risky and tend to be recalled by many subjects . |
| 12 | A major recession makes innovation risky and discourages it , but in such a period the more adventurous entrepreneurs see the opportunity to profit by investing in new innovations . |
| 13 | As a system gets larger the logic becomes more obscure , modification more risky and debugging increasingly problematic . |
| 14 | Questioning everything a company does is usually too risky and confronts too many entrenched interests among managers and employees to be worth doing unless a firm is in dire trouble . |
| 15 | Because the size of potential losses is growing so fast , many insurers now reckon that providing catastrophe cover has simply become too risky and have quit the market . |
| 16 | This was risky and proved to be an extremely ill-advised tactic . |
| 17 | Banks have little desire to underwrite — it is risky and demands lots of precious capital . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course you are , and so am I. Let's go somewhere civilized and have a meal . ’ |
| 19 | The fifth patient with a pouch vaginal fistula also had repeated episodes of pouchitis unresponsive to metronidazole and steroids , and developed multiple superficial pouch perineal and pouch vaginal fistulas , which were managed by laying them open and a proximal diverting ileostomy ; her ileostomy has now been closed and she has a good functional result . |
| 20 | He will soon find , for instance , the stranger in the furnace with Shadrach , Meshach and Abednego ( Daniel 3 ) , and even the Mount of Transfiguration when Moses and Elijah conversed with the transformed and glorified Jesus ( Matthew 17:1–8 ) . |
| 21 | Detroit is shabby , poverty-ridden and struggling to keep its head above water It has a huge crime problem . |
| 22 | It is my purpose to expose such ideas as erroneous and offer in their place an account based on social processes . |
| 23 | At work , he had been used and abused repeatedly , each time becoming so anxiety-ridden and exhausted that he had handed in his notice . |
| 24 | But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets . |
| 25 | His only friend is the tubercular and crippled Ratso Rizzo , who dreams of getting to the sunshine of Florida one day . |
| 26 | Proof ( i ) We first suppose that F is primitive and write unc where a , b , c , d ε Z+ are such that ( a , v ) = 1 ( c , d ) , where G , H ε Z[x] and are primitive and where deg g = deg G and deg h = deg H. |
| 27 | Veinlets , on the other hand , are primitive and constitute the finer twigs of a principal vein ; they are preceded by tracheae and carry macrotrichia ( Fig. 37 ) . |
| 28 | What I call the ‘ auditory imagination ’ is the feeling for syllable and rhythm , penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling , invigorating every word ; sinking to the most primitive and forgotten , returning to the origin and bringing something back , seeking the beginning and the end . |
| 29 | On the contrary , Eliot saw his poet as able to travel deeper down into ‘ the most primitive and forgotten ’ far beyond Arnold for whom ritual meant little , the ‘ inner light ’ being all . |
| 30 | These people are very primitive and live in small groups , moving from place to place . |