Example sentences of "a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisations are reassessing their priorities , says Price Waterhouse consultant Nick Cherrie , and , if they are not convinced that a project can offer a quantifiable and speedy payback , they are likely to shelve it . |
| 2 | His habitual greyness faded into a bleached and waxen pallor . |
| 3 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 4 | Steve and I had climbed to the end of the Double Corniced Crest , a hateful and difficult section with all the solidity of a haystack on edge , balanced on a skyscraper . |
| 5 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 6 | Its statement spelt out the process : the release of other political prisoners , the return of political exiles , the lifting of the state of emergency and other political restrictions , and negotiations on a peaceful transition to a non-racial and democratic South Africa . |
| 7 | He was thinking of a dark-haired and scarred soldier whom he had cuckolded and impoverished , a soldier who had sworn to kill him in revenge . |
| 8 | US officials said the general would fall quickly , but he has proved a resilient and cunning opponent . |
| 9 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
| 10 | Both have contended with disease and suffering , and have been seen as near-saints by a grateful and admiring public . |
| 11 | To take David Lewis ' example ( D. Lewis 1973 ) , ‘ if kangaroos had no tails , they would topple over ’ ; it is of course always true that they might not topple over — they might be given crutches by a grateful and tourist-conscious government . |
| 12 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 13 | Space does not allow a full description of Harry 's successful progress from Brussels ( as Jean Henri de Smat , a deaf and dumb basket maker ) and then through France , to Switzerland , which Harry eventually reached on 14 October 1943 . |
| 14 | Both deaf and hearing actors play to a deaf and hearing audience . |
| 15 | I fell in love with a deaf and dumb man and I planned to spend my life earning and loving and teaching and praying , all on his behalf . |
| 16 | The Rev. John Kingdon , the Baptist minister , had two other ceremonies to perform that day , as he also officiated at the burials of Mary Whiting , aged 77 , and a deaf and dumb girl of 45 years , Christiana Yerbury . |
| 17 | A DEAF and dumb teenager found wandering the streets of Paris has startled police with a series of sinister ‘ life story ’ drawings . |
| 18 | A DEAF and dumb teenager found wandering the streets of Paris has startled police with a series of sinister ‘ life story ’ drawings . |
| 19 | A DEAF and dumb teenager whose drawings of witchcraft have stunned France may be identified , thanks to TODAY . |
| 20 | The United States had been introduced to the combined system by Laurent Clerc , a deaf and dumb immigrant and former pupil of the Abbe de l'Epee . |
| 21 | The original proposal for this clause , which had led to disagreement , read : Any deaf person , or any hearing missionary , or superintendent of a deaf and dumb mission and society , who is a resident of the United Kingdom shall be eligible to ordinary membership of the Association . |
| 22 | There 's a couple up here at number twenty , a deaf and dumb couple . |
| 23 | And he spoke for three hours About ivory towers And warlords in armoury suit And the traveller sat And stared into his hat Because he was a deaf and dumb mute . |
| 24 | So many abandoned dogs are being treated in the hospital section of the Canine Defence League kennels at Evesham in Worcestershire , that one of them , a deaf and blind poodle , is living in the operating theatre because there 's no other room left . |
| 25 | The first seven members of the Roseberry co-operative had been unemployed for an average of five years and seven months when they began working on the Langridge Crescent site , and their growing band of colleagues has continued to include those frequently bypassed by mainstream employers in the construction industry : a deaf and dumb carpenter , a former labourer with a history of heart trouble , a young woman training to be a painter and others . |
| 26 | For a pleasant and relaxing end to the day , why not take an evening cruise on Lake Zell . |
| 27 | Any substantial town or city faced with competition from out of town shopping needs to ensure its historic centre is a pleasant and welcoming place for people to come and shop and browse ; and a lively , colourful market forms a natural focal point . |
| 28 | But Hardman was dismissed as a small-wave specialist and Lynch was condemned as a pleasant and industrious journeyman , while Carroll and Curren had acquired the status of living legends among the surfing fraternity . ] |
| 29 | For example , you may ignore her persistent whining for attention after one constructive attempt to distract her by suggesting a pleasant and diverting activity ( after all , you re having to see to the baby ) . |
| 30 | A pleasant and correct telephone manner is therefore essential for anyone working in the retail trade . |