Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] and a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They brought forth a male and a female child , Geb ( earth ) and Nut ( sky ) . |
| 3 | After some bartering they acquired both the nude and a splendid portrait of a servant girl for five hundred francs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The previous chapter and the present one have examined in detail the operation of both a fixed and a floating exchange rate system . |
| 11 | From that time to this Kiev has evolved , like Naples or Boston , into both a great and a provincial city . |
| 12 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 13 | Like all his most important decisions , this one had both a long and a short history . |
| 14 | In the English perception , empiricism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term . |
| 15 | Of course , this was both a political and a disciplinary measure . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Programme will have both a specific and a general relevance to current policy concerns . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The affair was both a personal and a professional humiliation and she looked as though she could cry . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This has both a short-term and a long-term objective . |
| 24 | Editing is both a good and a bad thing in a sense . |
| 25 | What distinguishes the infinitive of reaction from uses such as I am ready to leave , where ready also attributes a prior disposition to the support , is simply that the characteristic denoted by the adjective of reaction evokes both a prior and a contemporaneous disposition towards the occurrence of an event . |
| 26 | Following his failure to buy or seize Socotra , Haines convinced the government of Bombay that Aden could be made into both a strategic and a great commercial centre . |
| 27 | And I therefore feel that it it is indeed both a strategic and a local consideration . |
| 28 | Both a male and a female holly must be planted to obtain a display of berries |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal in Hong Kong has both a civil and a criminal jurisdiction , each defined and limited by section 3 of the Supreme Court Ordinance ( c. 4 ) . |
| 30 | For both a practical and a theoretical reason I shall concentrate on describing those influences in terms of just four varieties : Standard British English , London English ( henceforth LE ) , Jamaican Standard English and Jamaican Creole ( henceforth JC ) , with emphasis on just two of these , LE and JC . |