Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] also a " in BNC.

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1 Police on parade , in the absence of marches by a peacetime army , was both a major civic celebration and also a symbol of untrammelled power .
2 The Vesica piscis became an important emotional symbol and also a practical geometrician 's tool throughout Gothic architecture , sculpture and painting .
3 This hairstreak butterfly has achieved the effect by evolving not only a coloured false head but also a radiating black and white pattern on its wings that directs the observer 's eye away from the real head .
4 More often , two or more rhythms are used to give not only a more varied rhythmic interest but also a bigger canvas by using first one rhythm , then another , or by using them in various combinations and expansions .
5 The broader approach that we advocated covers not only sentence structure but also larger patterns of organisation , not only the forms of written academic English but also a range of stylistic and dialectal varieties , not only language structure but also meaning and use .
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