Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 2 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 3 | Those who marched were a coalition of wildly different elements : pacifists and Christians , Trade Unionists and Little Englanders , anarchists and rationalists , Beats and ravers , the barefoot and the long-haired and also a great many quiet and concerned young parents pushing prams or carrying infants on their shoulders . |
| 4 | It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support . |
| 5 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 8 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 9 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 10 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
| 11 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 15 | He is coughing up because the Om budsman has found five separate cases of maladministration which , the minister admits , amount to a moral if not a legal responsibility . |
| 16 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 17 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 18 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 21 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 22 | To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise . |
| 23 | It was a noisy but not a violent affair , the clashes between the Blackshirts and the Red Front outside being mainly verbal . |
| 24 | The graft , like the long spade , has a slightly rounded cutting edge , which again needs to have a good but not a sharp edge to it . |
| 25 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
| 26 | Apart from the difference in the colour of the coat — there were blacks , chestnuts , a grey and even a piebald — the beasts were exactly alike . |
| 27 | By contrast , artists normally strive , at least supposedly , for a general but not a specific truth , for a truth to life — however defined — but not a truth to particular individuals . |
| 28 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
| 29 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
| 30 | For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one . |