Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this brief résumé of the sources available to social researchers it should now be very clear that a vague wander through the bookshelves of the library is inefficient and time-wasting . |
| 2 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |
| 3 | IT TAKES more than a sending-off to halt the Portadown juggernaut these days . |
| 4 | You want a thin and a thick did you say , yeah ? |
| 5 | They were relaxing in front of a blazing fire when the door of the bar burst open and a local appeared : ‘ Listen , ’ he announced . |
| 6 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |
| 7 | This reproduction from a thirteenth century chess manual shows a Christian and a Moslem playing a game . |