Example sentences of "a [adj] and [adv] interesting [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 2 | She offers a persuasive and very interesting hypothesis , as yet unsubstantiated , to which classroom research could usefully be directed . |
| 3 | But we need not pause to examine its defects , since there is a stronger and more interesting move with which it may be confused . |
| 4 | It justified this decision by boasting a stronger and more interesting group of works in a larger auction in which 169 lots were sold for £1.57 million ( $2.32 million ) , with only twenty-three lots failing to find buyers . |
| 5 | A recent and very interesting case is that of a fifty-three- year-old man in Italy who suddenly began to sleep less and less . |
| 6 | Even in a socialist country like Tanzania , however committed one may be to the abolition of privilege in society , there is no arguing with the fact that young people with secondary and higher education can expect life to bring them a richer and more interesting experience than it does to the primary school leaver . |
| 7 | All these factors are reversed at night when we are asleep and inactive in a cooler and less interesting environment , and body temperature would fall as a result . |
| 8 | When Gockley took over in 1972 , the HGO charted a new and more interesting course . |
| 9 | Finally Brooks of Clapham included a varied and most interesting collection of aviation memorabilia in their sale on September 15 . |
| 10 | This happened most nights and he had grown to think that it was an easier and more interesting way of travelling , particularly as his looks and his load of schoolbooks and his thinness caused people to stop . |
| 11 | An alternative and more interesting route of return to Clapham is available by following the wall west , turning south , from the end of the Allotment , passing other satellites of Gaping Gill , descending Trow Gill and joining the pleasant path along the valley of Clapham Beck . |
| 12 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |