Example sentences of "and [adj] [be] [adv] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It does say on it of course ‘ payable on demand ’ and not ‘ payable to bearer ’ in this instance , and that is quite an important difference .
2 ‘ Things that people say in interviews , I 've noticed that their lyrics are a process of self analysis and that 's quite an introspective thing .
3 ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work .
4 In ( 1 ) , a combination of directional and components strategies is being used and this is clearly an effective procedure .
5 The skill can be described as a group of inter-related subskills which do not require moment-by-moment attention , and this is also an appropriate description of skilled reading .
6 The toxin may or may not be present in strains of er C diphtheria and this is just an immunological test so I wo wo n't explain it in detail but what you can see is a a strip of er , filter paper which has been bathed in anti-toxin and growth of various different strains of the organism erm which , some of which do produce the toxin you can see lines of precipitation here and some of which do n't produce the toxin .
7 It is easy enough to analyse the formal characteristics of African sculpture in terms of vertical , horizontal or diagonal emphases ; of relative naturalism or abstraction ; of rounded , angular or cubic elements ; or in terms of tensions , rhythm and movement , and this is certainly an enjoyable and satisfying experience , since African sculptors have achieved a remarkable level of expression in what has been called ‘ purely sculptural ’ form .
8 In the past , this derived from the massive government R&D programmes which addressed the demanding requirements of nuclear power , and this is still an important part of AEA 's inheritance .
9 Mhm and this was just an innocent party
10 In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign .
11 And this was necessarily an inward thing , not a matter of hieratic gestures .
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