Example sentences of "an [adj] and often [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Liverpool friend remembered him as ‘ a tall spare man with alert eyes and a very beautiful voice , but with an ironic and often unkind humour about his contemporaries ’ . |
| 2 | Most mammalian embryologists have been guilty in the past of using age as a measure of developmental stage ; this has proved to be an inadequate and often misleading criterion . |
| 3 | Men have a greater concentration of pheromones , which constitute an important and often unconscious part of their appeal to women . |
| 4 | In an indifferent and often insensitive world , we so often feel alone and misunderstood . |
| 5 | Cutting sections through defences is always an arduous and often frustrating experience , and this one was no exception . |
| 6 | Although Stevenson 's main work , Ethics and Language , is supposed to be well known , it is an under-rated and often misrepresented work , accounts of which in books on moral philosophy are often little more than parodies . |