Example sentences of "an [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 2 | The stones glowed like warm apricots in the afternoon sun , and the jumble of towers and turrets with their high pointed roofs topped with blue-grey tiles had an endearing and slightly eccentric charm . |
| 3 | She stamped on my right big toe , forcing me to produce an involuntary and appallingly undignified yelp . |
| 4 | In the case of pupils who are totally blind , or have little guiding sight , an orderly and reasonably predictable environment can help the pupil when he is still gaining confidence in independent mobility , but experience in purposeful movement and appropriate mobility training are even more essential . |
| 5 | It is better not to extend what was , after all , an accidental and purely professional relationship . |
| 6 | It is an acute and intelligently framed plan , which suggests that the encouragement of , or even provision for , large-scale recreation in these remote heartlands is quite inappropriate , that pressure needs to be taken off , not increased . |
| 7 | Having seen Mr Jeffreys and diagnosed an acute and fairly painful dose of tonsillitis , she had intended going straight back to her cabin , instead of which , without even being aware of it , she had walked in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | Sometimes , however , the media can not be so easily deployed by political actors and the media may , in consequence , exert an indeterminate and sometimes capricious effect on the doings of political institutions and actors . |
| 9 | Lithuania 's Prime Minister , Kazimiera Prunskiene , in late April and early May conducted an extensive but largely fruitless round of foreign visits in the hope of securing recognition by Western governments for Lithuania 's independence and material support to alleviate the effects of the blockade . |
| 10 | It would be an extensive and sometimes brutal business , but the Society was the equal of the challenge . |
| 11 | There is an extensive and rapidly growing literature on the tectonics of plate interiors , but unfortunately much of it is written from a geophysical rather than a geomorphic perspective and it is not readily accessible to readers lacking a good grounding in physics and maths . |
| 12 | From 1967 to 1975 he was the Ford Foundation 's representative in Nairobi , and was responsible for developing an innovative and highly influential programme to support the process of Africanisation . |
| 13 | The same story could be read in an expanded and slightly modified form in the Historiae Philippicae by Trogus Pompeius , a Celt who retailed Massaliote traditions and nostalgias at the time of Augustus . |
| 14 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 15 | Do n't think that because I 'm learning an absorbing and rather difficult trade I have no thoughts to spare for you . |
| 16 | The director , even more impressed with the tall , meaty young man with a flashing smile and an indefinable and absolutely spurious air of distinction , gave him walk-on parts . |
| 17 | Omit the pallor , which is an odd and perhaps over-modest intrusion into the account , and that sounds like Defoe or Dickens or Proust — or Murdoch : its converse , the crystalline novel , being ‘ a small quasi-allegorical object portraying the human condition , ’ which sounds like Rasselas , Waugh 's Decline and Fall or Orwell 's Animal Farm — not to mention the fiction of Muriel Spark , which can be artfully , even heartlessly , diagrammatic . |
| 18 | Certainly an admirable and very brave German . |
| 19 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 20 | The Conservative Government claimed that these bodies were an unnecessary and highly expensive tier of administration . |
| 21 | Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems . |
| 22 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 23 | Although in both books Hilton never loses sight of the spirituality possible for actives each book is addressed to a different audience : Scale 1 to an enclosed and apparently illiterate anchoress " redyng of holy writt may < wel vse " ( 15.288a. – 88 ) ; while Scale 2 seems more generally addressed to a wider and not necessarily wholly contemplative audience . |
| 24 | Finally Ms Cann proposed an unorthodox and possibly unique solution : publication rights as part of merchandising would be retained by the publishers jointly , to be pooled and then shared out in the most appropriate way . |
| 25 | Marius is an unstable but extremely powerful character who is prone to fits of rage . |
| 26 | As the unashamedly extravagant Continental R in the most outrageous shade of red majestically revolved on the stand to an upbeat and immensely loud recording of ‘ Land Of Hope And Glory ’ the last thing on anyone 's mind was how the CFCs in the air conditioning were going to rip the ozone to pieces . |
| 27 | On main roads , the 50 km/h average speed also remained unchanged , an unhelpful but hardly unexpected outcome given the lack of treatment these received roads in the experiments . |
| 28 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 29 | An old but much altered city church , recently restored . |
| 30 | In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach , you will be in an old and vastly different world . |