Example sentences of "a [adj] and often [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first condition individuals that breed soonest produce young at the peak of a rich and often superabundant period of food production . |
| 2 | It also suggests why ‘ interdisciplinarity ’ may occur not simply at the notional boundaries of contiguous disciplines , but as a subtle and often unpredictable flow of information and influence from one part of the model to another . |
| 3 | The most common complication is a prolonged and often uncomfortable pain which can last for weeks or even months . |
| 4 | A broad and often uneasy coalition — of medics , clerics , social purists , eugenists and some feminists — campaigned to raise the question as a matter of vital national and even imperial concern . |
| 5 | She was sent to a local predominantly majority school in Washington , and although credible from a political point of view , the move presented the impressionable girl with a confusing and often unstable lifestyle . |
| 6 | In Italy a touchy and often aggressive nationalism , a feeling , rather as in France , that a great cultural tradition was being undervalued and might be in danger , was coupled with vociferous territorial demands in the Trentino , the Adriatic and Africa . |
| 7 | A strange and often savage creature from an island in the Indian Ocean , the miraj was a large hare with yellow fur , who sported a single spiralling black horn in the centre of its forehead . |
| 8 | At a stroke , family ties were disrupted : children found themselves , at an appallingly early age , having to stand on their own two feet in a strange and often hostile environment ; parents were suddenly deprived of their offspring . |
| 9 | ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start . |
| 10 | Certainly the grave demeanour which made such an impression upon others — the " sad eyes " and the " deep , sad voice " — was lifted in the company of friends to reveal a playful and often funny man . |
| 11 | This paragraph speaks of the ‘ many distinctive gifts and talents that women offer to the Church ; ’ in it the bishops state : ‘ We believe the time if overdue for more positive attitudes about your participation in the life of the Church and we recognise with regret that you have often been permitted to play mainly a limited and often inferior part in the Church . |
| 12 | The Old World is a dangerous and often cruel place , where war , plague and the vagaries of nature can destroy whole towns and force their inhabitants to become beggars , vagabonds and brigands . |
| 13 | Why , then , is there such a nervous and often neurotic distaste for things which in other countries are as staple a part of the table as salt and pepper are here ? |
| 14 | Overall it is a fine and often atmospheric performance , though not quite as bleak and powerful as the Beecham ( EMI and Koch Legacy , 3/92 ) . |
| 15 | That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest . |
| 16 | She considered this encouraged regular habits and represented a kindness to her tenants , but the policy could have made little sense to the working class woman managing on a tight and often irregular housekeeping allowance . |
| 17 | A deep and often sinuous lava channel can form if the roof of a lava tunnel subsequently collapses . |
| 18 | Long , who had become Governor of Louisiana at the age of 34 , was an able reforming politician , a brilliant and often hilarious orator , and a ruthless power-seeker . |
| 19 | They were the kinds of places in which learned authorities paraded such things as the wonders of nature , the relics of past ages , and the achievements of great people , before the eyes of a deferential and often uncomprehending populace . |
| 20 | Then , they 'd never read their chart books , otherwise they 'd have known that the blues has always provided record companies with a regular and often low-cost source of income . |
| 21 | Jones was now in the twilight of a complex and often controversial career . |
| 22 | Because he has failed to offer a clear-cut criterion for the rejection of any coherent research programme , or for choosing between rival research programmes , one might wish to say , with Feyerabend , that Lakatos 's methodology is ‘ a verbal ornament , as a memorial to happier times when it was still thought possible to run a complex and often catastrophic business like science by following a few simple and ‘ rational ’ rules ’ . |
| 23 | Anorexia nervosa has been viewed historically as a complex and often perplexing disorder . |
| 24 | Unlike the gibbon , which tends to specialize in figs of a predictable and often continuous availability that allows it to live in small territories and at a large population density , the orang-utan is a great wanderer . |
| 25 | He and his daughter , he imagined , would form an alliance based on shared jokes and secret indulgences against a lonely and often disapproving wife . |
| 26 | That is not to say , however , that such moments do not exist or that they do not have a profound and often life-changing effect on the person who experiences them . |
| 27 | One player , Malta 's Jon Buhagiar , was booked in a tough and often uncompromising affair in which Scotland 's impressive central defensive pairing of Stephen Wright and Kevin Bain always looked in command . |
| 28 | Sardonic and chilling by turns , Joyce harangued a small and often antagonistic group of bystanders , protected himself by one or two stalwarts of the League . |
| 29 | Draughts of cold air were difficult to avoid , and manoeuvrable folding screens offered a practical and often beautiful solution . |
| 30 | All these , as well as many of their innocent relatives and acquaintances , were to find themselves condemned to the mercies of a capricious and often brutal exile administration which many were neither physically nor spiritually able to withstand . |