Example sentences of "[adv] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a customer has a minor accident on the premises ( eg an elderly person falls down ) |
| 2 | In addition the tenant may have to pay compensation to occupying subtenants for non-renewal of tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and may himself have to pay damages for breach of obligation ( eg an unreasonable refusal of consent to assign ) . |
| 3 | So the invariable requirement now is that a market member trading on the market floor or its equivalent ( eg an automated trading system ) is required by market rules either to be a clearing member or to have a clearing agreement with a clearing member . |
| 4 | ( g ) Demergers The break-up of a firm after a failed merger is not unknown ; sometimes it is not so much the result of any defect in the merger arrangements themselves as a change of circumstances ( eg an unexpected collapse in the volume of a particular type of work ) . |
| 5 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 6 | Some writers have described formal groups as official groups , to avoid the confusion that can arise when describing groups operating in an informally structured organization ( eg an organic type of organization ) . |
| 7 | Mr Mubarak 's hand-picked Shura Council , hitherto an obedient advisory board , has publicly blamed Islamic radicalism on Egypt 's yawning social and economic inequalities , on corruption , and on perpetual rule by a single party . |
| 8 | Opposite An early Royal Mail shipping line poster . |
| 9 | He was now approaching thirty years old and , as the year turned , he wanted desperately to get an audition for the new movie they were all talking about , in which the star was to be a young man playing opposite an older woman . |
| 10 | OPPOSITE An illustrated title page of Don Giovanni . |
| 11 | I was not unhappy to be sitting opposite an attractive lady from Coll and there was only one person I knew of who lived on Coll . |
| 12 | ‘ The CAA estimates that a fifty per cent increase in AOC charges would cost the operator of a single Learjet completing 1,000 hours annually an additional £660 . |
| 13 | Furthermore an exhaustive lexicon of words may include words outside a normal user 's vocabulary . |
| 14 | Frequently , this orthographic evidence for variation in Middle English is rejected not on the grounds that the scribe was literally an Anglo-Norman ( which is what Skeat argued ) , but that uses such as variable h are originally scribal importations from French or Latin usage . |
| 15 | ‘ Better an honest raven than a deceitful magpie , eh ? ’ he said , quoting the old Han adage . |
| 16 | Better an early climb-down in some sheltered private meeting , he argued , than a humiliation on the floor of the House . |
| 17 | That is , better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men . |
| 18 | Churchill summed it up to Keynes after the two men had had a particularly difficult conversation about the matter : ‘ This is n't entirely an economic decision ; it 's a political decision . ’ |
| 19 | When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia . |
| 20 | Before settling down to a tour of the old quarter ( and Stein is almost entirely an old quarter ) , it is a good idea to face the climb to the Burg Hohenklingen , from the battlements of which there is a breathtaking view of the Rhine winding its way through flat green pastures and dense woodland , and of the closely clustered pointed roofs of Stein itself . |
| 21 | The House of Lords was , until the latter half of the twentieth century , almost entirely an hereditary body . |
| 22 | It was n't entirely an idle question since Wendy and Tom Witherington had two young children upon whom their bachelor uncle doted . |
| 23 | Arthur de la Mare of the British Foreign Office remarked that one of the most noteworthy features of the broadcast by Hugh Borton and Edwin Martin was Borton 's admission that the failure of the Joint Commission was not entirely an American responsibility , ‘ nor was it entirely the Russians ’ . |
| 24 | Suddenly an unsuspected strength flowed through her . |
| 25 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
| 26 | Their light summer clothing was suddenly an intolerable barrier . |
| 27 | He was suddenly an old , sick man . |
| 28 | Then suddenly an old man pushed his way through to me and shook my hand . |
| 29 | We were making our way up a trackway towards the main gate of the manor when suddenly an old hag slipped out of the trees on one side of the path and stood squarely in front of Mandeville . |
| 30 | Suddenly an evil face , more like an animal than a man , looked at us from behind the rock . |