Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would attempt the impossible and set up an airline from scratch in three months . |
| 2 | That is , at the beginning of the spell of unemployment the individual assumes that the environment will remain unchanged and carries out an optimisation to obtain the optimal reservation wage ; but someone still unemployed at time T is assumed to reoptimise taking the changed environment into account . |
| 3 | The real lesson of the 23 July Cabinet meeting was that , in spite of all the doubts expressed , Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe stood firm and gave not an inch . |
| 4 | One of their sections had gone hog barmy and set up an operation that turned into a shoot-out in a friendly country with an apparently innocent citizen getting killed . |
| 5 | Many times the incompetent were described as being smart but lacking even an ounce of common sense . |