Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , jewellery may be stolen , cattle may die and grain deteriorates in quality with the passage of time , thus wealth in these forms is inherently risky and to a certain extent illiquid , i.e. not usually suitable for instant transfer or use . |
| 2 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 3 | He looked young , a little boy , as he said this and like a little boy who has been thrashed by playground bullies and can not do anything in return but hate them . |
| 4 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 5 | Clean-shaven and with a full head of greying hair , he was known as a gentle man , but nobody crossed him . |
| 6 | All are interdependent and to a certain extent intermixed . |
| 7 | — variously described as " empty-shell " and content free and as a labour-saving device and tool for learning . |
| 8 | Four years later she is symptom free and on a normal diet . |
| 9 | Consider adding the following words to this clause : by which date the Premises shall be watertight defect free and in a fit state for fitting out and sufficient access thereto together with a sufficient electricity and water supply shall be available to enable the Tenant to carry out the Tenant 's Works/ [ fitting out works etc/ ] |
| 10 | On the other hand he was proud of what he was up to , and it was exciting and in a good cause ; so he talked about it . |
| 11 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 12 | It had surprised Ruth that the Carsons should choose to live in a boarding-house , until she discovered that in New York it was quite the thing-always supposing that the establishment was high-class and in a good locality . |
| 13 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 14 | He was a magnificent winger : a ball player with plenty of craft , but fast , clever and with a lethal shot — skills that have etched his name for all time into the Palace record books . |
| 15 | Comments from around the office about the amplified sound were all very favourable and with a little work ( on the nut , in particular ) this guitar could more than handle a pro gig . |
| 16 | Table 5.4 shows that US borrowers , dominant until recently , have partly withdrawn leaving Japanese and to a lesser extent UK institutions as the main issuers . |
| 17 | The hospital attenders were more likely to be registered with a practice with no diabetic miniclinic and with a general practitioner with no special interest in diabetes . |
| 18 | These cover the years 1988 to 1991 and on a quarterly basis for 1991 and 1992 . |
| 19 | Gaidar , in a visit to the industrial Urals region on Nov. 18-19 and at a pre-Congress meeting of deputies from Russia 's southern region on Nov. 23 , spoke of preparations to give more economic and political autonomy to the regions in the 1993 draft budget . |
| 20 | That these may be continuing problems is evident by a study by Bauman ( 1964 ) who found partially sighted pupils to be particularly insecure and with a greater sense of loneliness when they were integrated into open education systems . |
| 21 | This integrating combination has a long time-constant and for a momentary pulse output from IC2 does not allow the voltage across capacitor C5 to rise much above the ground . |
| 22 | In Kutná Hora there are several interesting churches of which the most notable is that of S. Barbara , which is large and imposing and in a fine state of repair . |
| 23 | Both the major definitions of poverty — as an absolute and as a relative condition — turn on the question of individual health . |
| 24 | Right , have you starting to talk early and with a wide coverage unusual it is for their age example , classical music for a three year old , reading by the age of three , early ability and enjoyment of |
| 25 | On Sunday we rose early and after a good breakfast were eager to get out on the hills . |
| 26 | Straight blonde hair , slender-faced and with a wide mouth of expectancy as if everything that happened that was a surprise was excitement and welcomed . |
| 27 | Oxford Placement Tests have proved effective with all students from elementary level up to post-Proficiency and in a wide range of institutions . |
| 28 | You will find that the normal aircraft compass is quite useless unless you are flying straight and at a steady speed . |
| 29 | And she carried herself straight and with a certain assurance ; or was it defiance ? |
| 30 | One , already mentioned , envisages a gradual consolidation of a new kind of middle-class , post-industrial society ( Bell , 1973 ) , based upon advanced technology , a mixed economy and a broad consensus of opinion about social and political goals , which would be peaceful , liberal and in a certain sense ‘ classless ’ . |