Example sentences of "a [adj] and somewhat [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Mattison has probably done more than any other recent author to champion the snakey cause : as he says in the introduction to this excellent paperback , ’ … though I respect the ability of some species to cause a rapid and somewhat sensational death , outright fear of them is , to me , irrational . ’ |
| 2 | A brooding and somewhat majestic effect . |
| 3 | Twort was a reserved and somewhat unworldly man . |
| 4 | Case No. 9 : 76 year-old Sulphur patient with typical 11.00 hr. aggravation and bladder infections felt temporary relief for two months after Sulphur 200 , Sulph 1M was given , but she sustained a long and somewhat debilitating aggravation lasting 6–8 weeks . |
| 5 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 6 | There is no doubt the uniform policemen see their one-time associates in the CID as having crossed a divide , while the detectives know they have joined a closed and somewhat élite family group , whose strengths include the inside support of other members of that society . |
| 7 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 8 | Westminster is a factual and somewhat pedestrian programme and , in the past , it tried not to offer political judgements . |
| 9 | Its author , who may have written most of every entry between 991 and 1016 , has a distinctive and somewhat dramatic style , and knew a great deal . |
| 10 | Representing a reaction against the wish-dreams of the initial stage , realism is liable to assume a critical and somewhat cynical aspect … it places its emphasis on the acceptance of facts and on the analysis of their causes and consequences . |
| 11 | He is not a man who courts company , often cutting a solitary and somewhat broody figure , but colleagues say he was frustrated by his lack of opportunities with England in the winter and , more recently , by his inability to build big innings for Middlesex . |
| 12 | It is a bleak and somewhat chilly world which Eliot has constructed , an effect emphasized by the dispassionate way in which human emotion and human suffering are described . |
| 13 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 14 | Monday week after Easter , 1922 , saw a new and somewhat awesome change in my life . |
| 15 | The 1989 Act substituted a new and somewhat simplified Chapter III ( Annual Return ) for that in the original Part XI of the 1985 Act . |
| 16 | Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ? |
| 17 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 18 | Oral explanations and discussion may convey a meaning and a depth lacking in written explanation which may tend to be accepted at an uncritical and somewhat superficial level . |
| 19 | ‘ Intragenomic conflict ’ , one of the trendiest fields in biology , is not some anti-Darwinian mysticism , but an ultra-Darwinian and somewhat cynical view of how genes compete . |
| 20 | The Headmaster himself was an aloof and somewhat austere figure in public , betraying his emotions only twice — when he announced , on the afternoon of 11th November 1918 to the assembled school , the signing of the Armistice , and when some sixth-formers presented him with a gift to mark his marriage . |
| 21 | By defining this insider fieldwork ( and the university experience which generated it ) as a liminal situation , I am extending the Turnerian concept ( 1969 , 1974 ) in which the individual moves temporarily into an unstructured and somewhat ambiguous state , during the initial process of passing through a rite de passage before returning to structure . |