Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
2 | In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect . |
3 | In the preface , the editor of the catalogue makes it clear that only a representative selection of coins is listed . |
4 | Schools are given the same written guidelines as in the Major Project , but it is made clear that only a short proposal document is required to accompany the school 's spending plan . |
5 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
6 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
9 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Of the two types of bend tests the four-point is the more reliable since only a pure bending moment is applied to the centre section of the beam and the relation becomes exact , for small curvature , since the deformation is truly into a circular arc . |
12 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
13 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
14 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
15 | It 's crucial that even a basic name and address system can get at a particular name , or group of names , as quickly as possible . |
16 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
17 | Many were convinced that only a proletarian revolution could remove discrimination . |
18 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
19 | Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown . |
20 | An executive director of Noble Grossart Limited and also a non-executive director of Amicable Smaller Enterprises Trust PLC , Stagecoach Holdings PLC , Pict Petroleum plc and a number of other companies . |
21 | He then asks " how should one recognise authority ? " and answers that " degrees only prove knowledge ; look among those who really love art and literature " , and he goes on to conclude : " The artist , if he really is an artist , possesses absolute value which he can not lose : the man of science , once refuted or superseded , retains no absolute but only an historical importance . " |
22 | The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’ |
23 | I do not intend to have a restrictive but rather an expansive definition . |
24 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |
25 | The second method is appropriate when only a small number of arithmetic operations are to be performed on each of a large number of initial items of data . |
26 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |
27 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |
28 | He is of good family , educated , rich and therefore a perfect match . |
29 | He has argued that such a thing is indeed possible and often a potential solution to the legitimation crisis ' . |
30 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |