Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 2 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 3 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 4 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 5 | Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later . |
| 6 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 7 | An executive director of Noble Grossart Limited and also a non-executive director of Amicable Smaller Enterprises Trust PLC , Stagecoach Holdings PLC , Pict Petroleum plc and a number of other companies . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |
| 9 | He is of good family , educated , rich and therefore a perfect match . |
| 10 | He has argued that such a thing is indeed possible and often a potential solution to the legitimation crisis ' . |
| 11 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 12 | Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems . |
| 13 | Each on its own seemed admirable and only a small addition to the government 's total expenditure . |
| 14 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 15 | Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " . |
| 16 | It 's a lot more than that and quite a different fabric . |
| 17 | This persistence might be seen as an obvious contradiction of the prediction that deviations of output from its natural level should be random and hence a clear refutation of the rational expectations version of the aggregate supply and demand model developed above . |
| 18 | The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster . |
| 19 | He is a small , bearded , rather rotund man in his late thirties , always jovial and yet a true professional who takes his responsibilities very seriously . |
| 20 | But every letter is unique and even a retained copy , the equivalent of a modern carbon , does not detract from that essential quality : so that criteria are not so stern . |
| 21 | He missed only two fixtures in 1990–91 and obviously a grand future lies ahead of him . |
| 22 | We recognised that training for this role needed to be more structured and now a formal training programme to supplement and extend my training has been set up with the cooperation of senior medical staff . |
| 23 | Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level . |
| 24 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
| 25 | There is a whistle which lasts long and then a muffled explosion and the earth or house quakes . |
| 26 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
| 27 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 28 | The reasons why the lower socio-economic groups make less use of the education and health services are complex and only a brief comment can be presented here . |
| 29 | It was slightly fuzzy and presumably a distant galaxy . |
| 30 | While building such a database , using the kinds of structural concepts described above , is technical challenging and certainly a costly business , the greatest difficulties come when such a database is delivered online . |