Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 2 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 3 | When she sprayed her face , her visage became more of a blank than ever , a black mask with the merest hint of features . |
| 4 | Despite some evidence to the contrary of Third World women in EOZs organizing fierce resistance to exploitation , of a sexual as well as a general nature , the overwhelming weight of evidence SuppOns the view that most women workers in EOZs , while not necessarily enthralled by their jobs , are glad to have them and much prefer them to the alternatives on offer . |
| 5 | Lionel said , ‘ Anything to do with rags to riches is sure of a welcome if brightly done — as happens of course at the Carlton … |
| 6 | The much vaunted scum defence leaks two goals against a plucky though rather ordinary side ; ho ho ho . |
| 7 | For detailed surveys of lowland tundra on Devon Island , northern Canada , see Bliss ( 1977 ) ; for a wide-ranging though equally detailed account of Soviet tundra see Chernov ( 1985 ) , and for a most readable though more general survey of tundra vegetation see Sage ( 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Colin broke , I think he equalled a record for a leftwinger as well scoring goals we had er later on we had Bob came from Coventry , Coventry City . |
| 9 | Yet it is also possible to see the form as a stylized if rather primitive representation of the female deity . |
| 10 | Bidault , it has been said , leader of the Resistance in occupied France , may have been unaware how the world outside had changed during the war ; but in any event distrusted Ho as a communist as well as a nationalist threat to France 's post-war international position . |
| 11 | The deliberate attempt to link learning to the design of instruction provided the necessary discipline to treat learning as a practical as well as a theoretical issue . |
| 12 | Most governments , including that of Britain , have shied away from receiving the Dalai Lama as a political as well as spritual leader . |
| 13 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 14 | It treated its subject not as some kind of jokey aberration , but as a normal if slightly unexpected development of the weird and wonderful adventure we call Life . |
| 15 | They do this throughout life , not only in courtship , and the penis probably serves as a tactile as well as sexual organ . |
| 16 | This Spring , BBC2 is televising a Primetime production of one of the great theatrical stagings of the 1980s — Trevor Nunn 's landmark production of Othello , with Willard White in the title-role , Ian McKellen as Iago , and Imogen Stubbs as a more than usually childlike Desdemona . |
| 17 | The UNTAC human rights chief , Dennis McNamara , described the signing of the covenants as a pragmatic as well as a symbolic act . |
| 18 | Handbell ringing has potential as a social as well as a musical activity in church . |
| 19 | Scrapping of the flyovers seen as a psychological as well as physical barriers to pedestrian movement between Birkenhead 's shopping and business areas is a key objective in revamp plans for the town centre . |
| 20 | Scrapping of the flyovers seen as a psychological as well as physical barriers to pedestrian movement between Birkenhead 's shopping and business areas is a key objective in revamp plans for the town centre . |
| 21 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 22 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 23 | She added , ‘ The station should be cancelled now , before it turns into a radioactive as well as an economic catastrophe . ’ |
| 24 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 25 | Besides being far more satisfactory , it is submitted , from a social as well as a legal-theoretical standpoint , it would provide a framework applicable to all unions . |
| 26 | However , it is increasingly clear that the scale of this challenge is such that it demands a response from a national as well as local level . |
| 27 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 28 | ‘ Democracy can exist in a one-party as well as in a plural-party system , ’ he told a summit of five African nations on Monday in the Cape Verde capital , Praia . |
| 29 | And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population . |
| 30 | Perform combination techniques on the move so that you are able to work effectively in a retreating as well as an advancing mode . |