Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maize or Indian corn is what you may well be most conscious of here , a crop introduced into the western Pyrenees in the 1600s and long a staple there , occupying now nearly half the cultivated space . |
| 2 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 3 | The roar was held by some to be that of the dispossessed and not a train at all . |
| 4 | This is referred to as a form of idolatry ; it is the particularization or objectification of the Ultimate and consequently a form of demonization . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Its system of rebates , discounts and exemptions , and the fact that it is partly a personal and partly a property tax certainly guarantee complexity with necessarily guaranteeing collectability . |
| 7 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 8 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 9 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 10 | From his earliest experience of Parliament , where he sat , as a commoner and then a peer , from 1689 until his death ( with one short interval in 1698–9 ) , he ‘ always made an agreeable figure ’ without ever establishing a reputation as an orator . |
| 11 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 12 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |