Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 2 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 3 | But when he spoke it was not of her but of Peach , how to feed him , what sort of supplements he should have , that although he had had his routine immunizations , he must have a booster at a year old and also an injection against a new sort of feline virus . |
| 4 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 5 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 6 | Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change . |
| 7 | What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place . |
| 8 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 9 | The plan of the book is related to its overall purpose of demystifying research , making it more accessible and more a part of everyday work and decision making . |
| 10 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 11 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 12 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 13 | Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors . |
| 14 | At the wedding ceremony , when the usual problem of naming his father had arisen , John put ‘ Lawrence Tiller ( deceased ) ’ but his son was called Lawrence , was still alive and now a man of twenty-nine , working as general manager in the business . |
| 15 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 16 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 17 | Another market on the main shopping street , the Ludwigstrasse , was equally busy and there a number of the stalls were manned by Turks selling cheap jeans or asparagus or pots and kettles . |
| 18 | Their reasons for doing so are obviously partially speculative and partially a result of ewe hoggs now being eligible for subsidy . ’ |
| 19 | The story is long , complicated and just a part of one of the most controversial and problematic developments in the creation of the English canal system , a story admirably told in Charles Hadfield 's The Canals of the East Midlands and more fully still in Philip Stevens ' The Leicester Line . |
| 20 | The Americans love their sport and are just as fervent and passionate , but they have made their stadiums comfortable and safe and also an outing for the family . |
| 21 | This is referred to as a form of idolatry ; it is the particularization or objectification of the Ultimate and consequently a form of demonization . |
| 22 | The same interlocutor omits to mention semantic , inventive , aesthetic and especially a measure of subjective information , which can not be equated with Claud Shannon 's binary units . |
| 23 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 24 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 25 | But if knowledge is relative and ultimately a matter of human constructs , then such work may alter the very boundaries of our disciplines , and indeed help us to overcome the ‘ artificial ’ constraints of compartmentalized knowledge ; and the appropriate label is ‘ interdisciplinary ’ . |
| 26 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |