Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 2 | This he blamed on a lack of enterprise : ‘ There is no continuity of effort among your producers , ’ he said , ‘ They work too hastily and in too small a way . ’ |
| 3 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 4 | Freudian dream analysis proceeded by the patient 's lying down on the couch , and in as relaxed a frame of mind as possible recounting his or her dream , and then considering the dream images in turn , providing free associations to the object represented . |
| 5 | He was standing at the edge of the water , looking into the turgid grey-brown eddies that poured down towards Breidden with such force and in so absolute a silence . |
| 6 | It would be interesting to see if , for the first time and in so unusual a field , the family achieved distinction . |
| 7 | ‘ Far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves … no slave is a slave to the same lengths and in so full a sense of the word as a wife is [ for her husband ] can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being , that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations . ’ |
| 8 | I hate to think of him dead and in so horrid a way . ’ |
| 9 | As an undergraduate , says Walton , if he had a fault it was ‘ that he kept himself retired and at too great a distance with all his inferiors ; and his clothes seemed to prove that he put too great a value on his parts and parentage ’ . |
| 10 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |