Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 6 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 12 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
| 18 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
| 19 | For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one . |
| 20 | But the rapid and dramatic changes which are taking place in the world today , changes of a hopeful and not a frightening kind , could help to make a long-serving government more vulnerable to the time-for-a-change mentality . |
| 21 | The United Kingdom is a unitary and not a federal state , thus if central government is really serious about any policy it will get its way ( Griffith , 1965 ) . |
| 22 | That Vic Williams was a voluntary and not a conscripted soldier was irrelevant to the issue of conscientious objection , she added . |
| 23 | When Sjahrir resigned , his successor was Amir Sjarifuddin , a Christian and supposedly a moderate . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | But on 4 November 1991 , the Court of Appeal ( Cooke P. , Richardson and Hardie Boys JJ. ) held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 because that judgment was an interlocutory and not a final judgment and refused leave to the petitioner to appeal to the Board . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's political as Greenfields is in an independent and not a Labour ward , ’ he said . |
| 27 | This is an important and also a difficult point , so let me try to make it clearer . |
| 28 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 29 | ‘ This meeting is an educational and not a political exercise . |
| 30 | It is claimed , for example , that Russia 's ability to produce an atomic and later a nuclear bomb was entirely a result of information given by British spies . |