Example sentences of "and [adj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a few felt that the social workers , were helpful and supportive an equal number considered them to be patronizing and authoritarian . |
| 2 | I am anxious that my grandsons , Prince William and Prince Harry , should grow up in as happy and stable an environment as possible because they represent not just my family 's future , but a continuation of a tradition which has bound the British people together for centuries . |
| 3 | It was as thoughtful and generous an invitation as King Hussein sending us down to Petra and Aqaba . |
| 4 | Indeed , in 1981 , Lord Scarman expressed concern about ‘ too inward-looking and self-conscious an esprit de corps developing in the Group ’ . |
| 5 | I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance . |
| 6 | There is a tendency among corporate law scholars to dismiss the debate about the nature of the company and corporate personality as too rarefied and speculative an enquiry better left to properly qualified jurisprudential writers . |
| 7 | My main reservation about the book , which is more evident to me now than when it first appeared , is that Lodge has too direct and univocal an understanding of the elusive concept of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 8 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
| 9 | In the end it is perhaps rather too tidy and symmetrical an affirmation of the human spirit . |
| 10 | It 's got as bright and fierce an eye as I 've seen this side the Avon . ’ |
| 11 | Just thinking it over , you will see how deep and positive an influence this can be . |
| 12 | Griffiths came from Lancashire and bad an English accent . |
| 13 | Envy would not be so strong and indefeasible an instinct , unless it had an important function in the evolution and survival of human society , and therefore of mankind itself . |