Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 2 | Boeing jetliners touch down every four and a half seconds of every day . |
| 3 | The result was not merely a blurring but a confusion , of normal factional loyalties . |
| 4 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 5 | Alexandra put down a black and a yellow bishop side by side on matching squares . |
| 6 | A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter |
| 7 | All right I 'll bring in a sixty minute tape ask him tonight , okay and I 'll bring in a sixty and a ninety minute , okay . |
| 8 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 10 | But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour . |
| 11 | Cos there 's only a red or a blue in there , so if I |
| 12 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 13 | Sir William Petty , writing at the end of the seventeenth century , argued that excessive morbidity and mortality rates were not only a human but an economic tragedy . |
| 14 | Not that that 's necessarily a good or a bad thing . |
| 15 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 16 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 17 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 18 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 19 | In other words , what is needed is not only an equal but an equitable geographical distribution of educational resources . |
| 20 | De Lattre , it seems , had himself in mind as a Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia and his proposals for a joint intelligence operation together with a strategic reserve of six or eight divisions would , if it had come to anything , have meant not only an American but a British commitment to French fortunes in Indo-China . |
| 21 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 22 | Just the Scottish and an English ? |
| 23 | Many other studies have been conducted , either in exactly the same or a very similar way . |
| 24 | He explained his position in an article , ‘ Sukarno by Himself ’ , which appeared in June 1941 : ‘ There are men who say Sukarno is a nationalist ; others say he is no longer a nationalist but a Muslim ; and others again say he is neither nationalist nor Muslim but a Marxist . |
| 25 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 26 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |
| 27 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 28 | This , then , is not a static but a dynamic view of early English prosodies ; its theoretical breadth and scope is wide , and its empirical procedures sound ; it is innovative and challenging ; and it also forms a vital teaching text . |
| 29 | To ‘ put myself in your place ’ , to ‘ see your point of view ’ and ‘ understand how you feel ’ , is not a moral but a cognitive act , but of what sort ? |
| 30 | On the present analysis , moving to the viewpoints of other persons is not in itself a moral act , any more than is temporal viewpoint-shifting , so that a reduced capacity for either is not a moral but a cognitive defect . |