Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
| 2 | Her long face , with thick eyebrows , is that of a pleasant and ever-so-slightly bored horse , but she also has long legs , and no bottom to speak of , and wears her hair long , straight and black to her shoulders . |
| 3 | The sun flames orange and pink behind the trees above the house , the breeze is cool rather than cold , scented with flowers and the sea , and you think what a pleasant if rather bland place this would be to settle down . |
| 4 | We may employ slang terms or colloquialisms — and English has a rich and constantly changing vocabulary of such words and phrases . |
| 5 | In the first condition individuals that breed soonest produce young at the peak of a rich and often superabundant period of food production . |
| 6 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 7 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 8 | The door can converse intelligently , and has a haughty and slightly sarcastic tone of voice . |
| 9 | She had only met them once and they had seemed a friendly and most devoted couple . |
| 10 | Robyn smiled up at him , pleased that she should be rescued by such a friendly and not unattractive individual . |
| 11 | This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) . |
| 12 | ) . Their biggest hit was called ‘ But I Love Sergeyevitch ! ’ which was probably the first pop song to treat Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev in a friendly if rather frivolous manner . |
| 13 | I found Basil a shy and rather quiet man who had a deep sense of fun under his quiet exterior . |
| 14 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 15 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |
| 16 | The weather for the Fox F M area : a dry but mainly cloudy evening and night , the minimum temperature eight degrees celsius , forty-six degrees fahrenheit , and the wind could pick up to become moderate south-westerly during the evening . . |
| 17 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 18 | To many this might seem a dry and rather dusty concern ; but those who have watched the progress of AD can hardly fail to ask if the person they once knew is still somehow trapped within the body and mind of the sufferer . |
| 19 | There is a subtle but very real difference in where you place the emphasis , and the interviewer will not then automatically make the assumption that there was something lacking in you which caused you to be made redundant . |
| 20 | Here , as a subtle and admirably thorough critique of his achievement by a philosopher , Steven Lukes , points out , Durkheim anticipated Wittgenstein by at least half a century in showing how concepts were ( socially generated ) collective representations . |
| 21 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Characteristically , the internal organization of Bloomsbury , beyond its status as a group of friends and neighbours , and its meetings to read memoirs , was a private but eventually general publishing house ( the Hogarth Press ) which published over its whole range . |
| 24 | MY husband and I arrived home in Dumfriesshire , after a memorable and highly emotional weekend in dear old Liverpool . |
| 25 | The victim was drugged , he suggests , because ‘ nobody involved had the courage to shoot a helpless and fully conscious man at pointblank range . |
| 26 | The high unemployment of the 1970s and 1980s seems unlikely to be a temporary phenomenon : in fact many experts predict a persistent and probably increasing level of unemployment in Western economies for the rest of the century . |
| 27 | Whatever the causes of construction delays , they were to remain a persistent and seemingly insoluble problem , not only for the electricity supply industry but for a wide range of other British industries embarking on such large capital projects for decades thereafter . |
| 28 | This I regard as a possible but less natural meaning of the section . |
| 29 | The most common complication is a prolonged and often uncomfortable pain which can last for weeks or even months . |
| 30 | But one criticism made later in the same commentary drew attention to what was thought to be missing " above all , two things : one of them a sense of history , both a broad and more local framework within which the achievement of these schools can be placed and evaluated ; the other a sense of the actual texture of the schools themselves " ( Tizard et al. |