Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The learner 's ability to do this quickly and effectively from an early stage is obviously an important feature of language growth . |
| 2 | ‘ There is an awful lot of software for the 390 — but it is all in bits and pieces ’ Parker claims , and so as an interim step IBM will be pulling all the pieces together into a proper server package . |
| 3 | But Mr Stratton saw Mr Aldrich ; and so in an odd sort of way , even if we had no proof of Stratton being in Didcot , the pair of them quite unwittingly perhaps had given each other an utterly unshakeable alibi . |
| 4 | Horse manure , horse muck or just plain horse shit , depending on your susceptibilities , was a much needed and highly effective fertiliser for the allotments , and so from an early age a daily chore was to keep an eye open for droppings , grab your shovel and bucket and run out to scoop it up . |
| 5 | Though he did n't say so , he was looking for something more satisfactory for himself and Sien , and perhaps for an extended family if her mother and brother joined them later . |
| 6 | The Captain waited , dealing patiently with the routine paperwork with which he was constantly burdened , and diplomatically with an influential gentleman who wanted an impossible favour to do with the son 's military service . |
| 7 | Nowadays pleasure craft use the lift , going up and down within an impressive structure of tubular iron . |
| 8 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 9 | It became evident that the Tory success of the '50s had owed more to the ‘ conjuncture ’ of that decade and less to an irreversible shift in class/political alignment than had been thought earlier by political commentators such as Abrams . |
| 10 | The Anti-Rex crawled down the wall of the Butcher Building and in through an open window . |
| 11 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 12 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 13 | The aim of mathematics teaching should be to show mathematics as process , as a creative activity in which pupils can be fully involved , and not as an imposed body of knowledge immune from any change or development . |
| 14 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 15 | In the critical approach to knowledge , both the commonsense view and the academic view of the world are seen as views and not as an absolute account of the world . |
| 16 | If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language . |
| 17 | In it those who want it have some paid employment , probably on a part-time , possibly job-sharing basis , and not for an entire lifetime . |
| 18 | Talk is primarily for the participants and not for an outside audience . |
| 19 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 20 | At one time it was thought that the section only applied to express agreements and not to an implied agreement . |
| 21 | The strings here play a melodic line including the major 3rd of E7 ( G£ ) , while the bass gets away with a low G natural ( as it is only a sixteenth note long and not in an exposed position ! ) . |
| 22 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 23 | Make sure the engine is from a road vehicle and not from an industrial application as the fuel injector pump will need recalibrating for road use . |
| 24 | ‘ You said that like a spoiled little girl , señorita , and not like an icy journalist at all . ’ |
| 25 | It was grey and just like an old bag . |
| 26 | The turning to an anti-immigrant position by the French FN ( Front National ) in the late 1970s , the adoption of an anti-foreign-worker stance by the German NPD ( Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands ) after 1979 , the basis of the appeal of the Dutch NVU ( Nederlandse Volksunie ) from 1974 , even the turning from mere Flemish nationalism to anti-immigration propaganda by the Belgian VB ( Vlaams Blok ) in the early 1980s — all these are examples of movements that , sometimes explicitly and self-confessedly , followed the example of the NF in moving to anti-immigrant/anti-foreign worker appeals and away from an exclusive focus on anti-Semitism , anti-communism and the other traditional concerns of postwar European neo-fascism . |
| 27 | Further telephone borrowing is possible at the discretion of the Bank and usually at an increased rate of interest . |
| 28 | Thirty miles away , you can visit Drumlanrig Castle , built in the 17th century and home to an exquisite art collection . |
| 29 | The charm he switches on and off like an electric fire . |
| 30 | The baddies trundle back and forth like an expectant father and resurrect on returning to a screen , and you 've got this pathetic energy bar thingie which encourages you to ignore them anyway ! |