Example sentences of "an [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 2 | That 's the economy of the motor trade , apparently Henry Ford in America had an upset and er tried to beat the banks and er had loans and he was frightened that they would get control of his business and the we were told that at Dagenham . |
| 3 | Johnson , the former European and British champion , never seriously threatened to cause an upset and Ransome claimed his quarter-final place 15-11 , 15-4 , 13-15 , 15-8 . |
| 4 | Johnson , the former European and British champion , never seriously threatened to cause an upset and Ransome claimed his quarter-final place 15-11 , 15-4 , 13-15 , 15-8 . |
| 5 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 6 | Experience suggests , however , that attempting to tackle such problems sympathetically may be more likely to lead to an embittered and protracted dispute ( perhaps because it is seen as an admission that there may be doubt as to whether expulsion is really justified ) than acting decisively and impersonally , refusing to be drawn into arguments with the partner whose expulsion is sought . |
| 7 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 8 | Dexter guessed she was deeply in love : not with her husband , with whom she was trapped in an unsuitable and corroded marriage ; nor even it seemed , although no one knew the secrets of the dead woman 's heart , with her older lover ; but she was certainly in love with herself , Dexter believed , and with her image on the screen . |
| 9 | Women , however , were still perceived as being made of a different metal and , in spite of Mill , their voting remained an absurd and scandalous project for many decades after ‘ manhood suffrage ’ became a reality . |
| 10 | Basically Wegman expresses his view of the world as an absurd and irrational place by photographing Man Ray in a variety of disguises — inked-on whiskers and ears cunningly transform him into a cat , in a dress he becomes a transvestite , and in a hotel bed with Fay he becomes the envy of every red-blooded hound on the planet . |
| 11 | For an absurd and alarming moment I thought he must mean the woman of the glove . |
| 12 | The whole family must suffer the consequences of an absurd and stupid act . ’ |
| 13 | For those who love wild places and are concerned for their management , the John Muir Trust presents an endearing and attractive face . |
| 14 | The Corrado undoubtedly has an endearing and individual appearance with neat , crisp lines , but its dumpy proportions are at odds with a price normally associated with 3-litre executive saloons . |
| 15 | I write , I have to say , as a folklorophobe , but this is an endearing and instructive collection , kept in a fine sixteenth-century Basque town house . |
| 16 | The stones glowed like warm apricots in the afternoon sun , and the jumble of towers and turrets with their high pointed roofs topped with blue-grey tiles had an endearing and slightly eccentric charm . |
| 17 | Their Neolithic context is confirmed by occurrences in the cairn of Cairnholy , south-west Scotland , in the causewayed enclosure at High Peak , Devonshire , and above all on the course of the Sweet timber trackway in the Somerset Levels dated in radiocarbon years to c. 3200 B.C. The absence of any trace of haft or binding under conditions exceptionally favourable for the survival of organic materials and the lack of the slightest sign of wear suggest that the jadeite celt was deposited as an unhafted and unused blade to fulfil a symbolic role . |
| 18 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |
| 19 | Yet if Parliament would not sink overnight into the insignificance of the Dail , the STV would gradually exercise an insidious and in the end decisive effect on its proceedings and its authority . |
| 20 | And so in conclusion I looking at it and the exhibitions we 've made to you and to the county in the course of the consultation draft is that this county does not need this policy and that it is in fact an insidious and repressive kind of policy that it contrary to national planning guidance and should not be included in the alterations . |
| 21 | More simply , this striving for the clear assertion of ‘ fundamentals ’ is an age-old and pandemic aspect of humanity : the striving for certainty and predictability . |
| 22 | We need to ensure an ample and steady flow of mortgage funds at competitive rates as a principal service to our borrowers |
| 23 | To make the domain precise would necessitate an impractical and unacceptable narrowness in an already narrowly stated objective . |
| 24 | By means of the CKR 's ‘ no disp ’ clause the shipper-consignor agreed to a known ( although not widely used ) method of creating a security interest , i.e. , the conveyance of its negative possessory right to a consignee who was either an issuing or confirming bank . |
| 25 | When an issuing or confirming bank becomes the recipient of a receipt message , it has the same right to object to its terms as does the shipper . |
| 26 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
| 27 | The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) . |
| 28 | She stamped on my right big toe , forcing me to produce an involuntary and appallingly undignified yelp . |
| 29 | Cheltenham & Gloucester has launched a no-strings-attached , fully portable five-year deal fixed at 7.75 per cent , available on an interest-only or repayment basis on mortgages and remortgages up to 90 per cent of property value . |
| 30 | On July 28 , in an controversial and unprecedented move , Fujimori dismissed Adml. |