Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [coord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 3 | Not that that 's necessarily a good or a bad thing . |
| 4 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 5 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 6 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 7 | De Lattre , it seems , had himself in mind as a Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia and his proposals for a joint intelligence operation together with a strategic reserve of six or eight divisions would , if it had come to anything , have meant not only an American but a British commitment to French fortunes in Indo-China . |
| 8 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 9 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |
| 10 | They brought forth a male and a female child , Geb ( earth ) and Nut ( sky ) . |
| 11 | After some bartering they acquired both the nude and a splendid portrait of a servant girl for five hundred francs . |
| 12 | This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life . |
| 13 | This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life . |
| 14 | He took advantage of both a feudal and a monarchical position , treating Frederick as a vassal of the papacy as well as emphasizing his papal rights of protecting a minor . |
| 15 | The second book , by Philip Lawton and David Goy , is more a book for the practitioner who is familiar with many of the details of tax law and who expects both a thorough and a comprehensive treatment of the subject at an appropriate high technical level . |
| 16 | The importance of the riots in pushing the law and order issue , and specifically policing , on to the main political agenda was emphasized by the Liberal leader , David Steel , who argued that ‘ urgent action ’ to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary from both a moral and a political perspective ( Hansard , vol. 13 , 26 November 1981 : cols. 1009–11 ) . |
| 17 | The headmaster responded in a similar way when asked if staff portrayed attitudes which are conducive for teaching in ‘ both a comprehensive and a multiracial school ’ . |
| 18 | The previous chapter and the present one have examined in detail the operation of both a fixed and a floating exchange rate system . |
| 19 | From that time to this Kiev has evolved , like Naples or Boston , into both a great and a provincial city . |
| 20 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 21 | Like all his most important decisions , this one had both a long and a short history . |
| 22 | In the English perception , empiricism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term . |
| 23 | Of course , this was both a political and a disciplinary measure . |
| 24 | This is , we think , both a sportsmanlike and a businesslike way of dealing with the matter , and will , we feel sure , meet with the support of everybody . ’ |
| 25 | In many cases , a material may exhibit the characteristics of both a liquid and a solid and neither of the limiting laws will adequately describe its behaviour . |
| 26 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |
| 27 | The Programme will have both a specific and a general relevance to current policy concerns . |
| 28 | There was also an interest in integrating local authorities more closely with the developing machinery for economic management at both a regional and a national level . |
| 29 | The affair was both a personal and a professional humiliation and she looked as though she could cry . |
| 30 | Moreover , rather than simply reflecting a stronger relationship between risk and memory at higher levels of risk , the relationship visible in Figure 4.6 actually has both a negative and a positive component . |