Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You listen to me , Corby , ’ he says as if he was a hundred years old and me a little kid . |
| 2 | I knew he was reliable and himself an Iranian . |
| 3 | Careful and accurate description of the problems is necessary before deciding what help is appropriate and what the patient needs to do to overcome his difficulties . |
| 4 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 5 | But in a newspaper report on the trial , such an omission would have been absurd and itself an act of collusion with racism . |
| 6 | Decide which one of you will be the sales assistant and which the customer . |
| 7 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 8 | mhm Well , David Brian , now you 're a doctor and a reverend and your the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon , but you spent some time over there in Saints Mary and John Church . |
| 9 | Wulfstan 's Sermon of the Wolf refers to English powerlessness against the enemy as shameful ; Ælfric to the heathen army holding them to scorn and of days when English kings had been strong and theirs the only fleet around . |
| 10 | We are in fact , the strong and they the weaker . |
| 11 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 12 | ( b ) To recapture a person who is unlawfully at large and whom the officer is hotly pursuing ( s.17(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 13 | The construction is , of course , that of the ordinary attributive adjective , the adjective which is the exponent in observable syntax of the subordinate property in the intensional structure : The essentials of the notation , for any who have taken the option of arriving at this point direct from the beginning of Section 1.2 , are as follows : The basic elements in constructing linguistic expressions are assumed to be two : E = entity notion ; and P = property notion The basic relations have these symbols : = = equation ; = qualification = assignment The direction of the arrow and the arrowhead indicates which is the major and which the subordinate item in the formula ; it does not refer to order of appearance in surface form . |
| 14 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 15 | She adds : ‘ You would n't castigate the British servicemen who appeared on the television during the Gulf war and said that whatever Saddam Hussein did was good and whatever the Allies did was bad . |
| 16 | What is reasonable and what the law should forbid are not necessarily the same . |
| 17 | There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame . |
| 18 | The project looks at how risk and uncertainty are handled by the decision makers concerned and what the impact may be on the choices made . |
| 19 | It 's er er somebody on business is visiting and they the wife has come and she has to entertain the wife . |
| 20 | But politics is the art of achievable and what the Tories wanted was not achievable on the ground . |
| 21 | But you may have to think hard and long and reject many ideas that seemed promising before arriving at an ending to your book that is at once what everyone all along expected and what no one , or hardly anyone , thought would happen in that way . |
| 22 | Of 11 patients with complete heart block in association with acute myocardial infarction , 10 patients had an inferior and one an anterior myocardial infarction . |
| 23 | And oh Yeah , we went round from one house to the other and you A whole week of it it was more or less . |
| 24 | In market making systems , for example , there are regular controversies about who is a genuine and who a fair weather market maker . |
| 25 | One does not have to agree with Shumiatski 's aim of revolutionizing the masses to accept these remarks as a nice corrective to those views of Chaplin as a proletarian and whatever the political reasoning they do offer insights into the psychology and social psychology of the ‘ little man 's ’ persona . |
| 26 | Should not coal-fired power stations , which could be competitive and which the duopoly rejects , be offered for sale so that continuing competition can develop ? |