Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its body is held upright and what was the dorsal fin has become an undulating rear engine , which with the help of whirling pectorals on either side , enables it to move erect and stately through the corals and weed forests . |
| 2 | Adam thought of himself and Rufus as being wild and laid-back at the same time , equally like that , young adventurers with all the world before them and all the time they wanted to do what they liked with . |
| 3 | Jonna looked at his fingerends , already cracked and sore from the outdoor work , even though winter had not begun . |
| 4 | Sometimes , since then , Lewis had wondered what would have happened if Adam had obeyed him and been kind and polite to the perverse old man . |
| 5 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 6 | If Finn thought he was going to play hell with her heart he was very much mistaken , and if her carefulness made her life less rich , then that was entirely her own lookout and preferable to the interesting anguish of the uncertain love affair . |
| 7 | The face had changed — there was something unkind , and cruel about the mouth . |
| 8 | There was something unkind , and cruel about the mouth . |
| 9 | There is love in it , and hate , and fear , and a man called Heathcliff , who is strong and cruel like the devil himself . |
| 10 | Between the Sidlaw Hills and the Braes of Angus , the red loam of Strathmore has provided healthy cropping and stock-rearing since the twelfth century in spite of disruptive wars and civil strife . |
| 11 | All four were extraordinarily clever , given to fantasy and melancholy , and impractical to the point of danger . |
| 12 | The windows had a sly , mean look , and Fenella had the sudden impression that the Workshops were not workshops at all , but a single crouching monster , black and hard-backed and scaly on the outside , but possessed of roaring , flaming innards , so that every breath it took belched out hissing steam and curls and wisps of flame . |
| 13 | In the roaring and raging of the conflagration , a red-hot wind , driving straight from the infernal regions , seemed to be blowing the edifice away . |
| 14 | ‘ They bound along , eager and unquestioning across the icy wastes with the driver with the whip over them saying ‘ mush , mush ’ . |
| 15 | British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England have therefore co-operated to make the site more readily accessible and understandable to the public . |
| 16 | They should be able to present research findings in terms that are relevant and understandable to the client . |
| 17 | We should not be quite so narrow-minded , blinkered and xenophobic about the rest of the world . |
| 18 | Their advice , even today when it is more flexible and politically sensitive , consequently often falls on deaf ears , not because the economic logic is at fault but because the political factors in the equation are both unquantifiable and subjective for the decision takers . |
| 19 | Indeed here more than anywhere we may detect the Council 's most characteristic of orientations in comparison with all other Councils : a concern with ‘ the signs of the time ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 4 and cf. 44 ) , things outside the Church 's own life , the major problems cultural , economic and political of the contemporary world . |
| 20 | The move from the international and political to the insular and personal was interrupted by something of a lull in the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | Do they get in trouble even though the players are not trying to be manipulative and political in the negative sense of the word ? |
| 22 | An ugly church , monstrous and vulgar as the cloth merchants who had built it . |
| 23 | The campaign against the Scots was operated with ruthless efficiency , and was violent and vengeful in the extreme . |
| 24 | The composition of the new cabinet announced in February 1957 constituted Franco 's attempt to resolve the dilemma he faced by being both immobile and innovative at the same time ! |
| 25 | Her own voice sounded harsh and metallic inside the spacesuit helmet . |
| 26 | This is preferable to bathing the whole dog , as constant bathing softens the coat , making it difficult to hand-strip and untypical of the breeds . |
| 27 | Cool and fresh it 's to be for the fish , more studied and solid for the main course ; for the dessert , fragile and delicate . |
| 28 | This project seeks to answer a particular question : whether a child learning English and Spanish between the ages of one and three is learning one language system or two . |
| 29 | We wholeheartedly agree that the situation we currently face is regrettable and undesirable for the running of a happy , successful school to the benefit of the children , teachers and village . |
| 30 | Furthermore , your Lordships may feel that it is inconvenient and undesirable for the criminal law as enunciated in Lawrence and Dobson to be in conflict with the law affecting the title to money and other kinds of property . |