Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the children we spoke to about reviews found them either an unnecessary irrelevance or else an extremely threatening or distressing event . |
| 2 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 3 | The fund to meet the cost of Laura 's treatment was relaunched this week and yesterday an anonymous £100,000 donation was confirmed to the organisers , who are confident enough that money can be raised for the new operation and after= care . |
| 4 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 5 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 6 | back seat for soccer this weekend but still an awful lot to play for what with Oxford fighting relegation and Swindon chasing promotion |
| 7 | Some propositions can be subjected to experimental test and the results used in the creation of an extended thesis or alternatively an antithesis . |
| 8 | Yet Emma Johnson , spontaneous in her expressiveness , brings an extra freedom and often an extra warmth to make this in many ways the most winning of all . |
| 9 | A recent large randomised study in India found no such effect but rather an apparent slight excess of deaths in the supplemented group . |
| 10 | The stipes articulates with the distal border of the cardo and is sometimes divided into a basistipes and a dististipes. it bears a lateral palpifer and sometimes an inner sclerite , the subgalea ( or parastipes ) . |
| 11 | The end results will not only create a higher standard of competence within the company directly related to each person 's individual role but also an enhancement and enrichment of that person 's own development and personal qualification . |
| 12 | Today it is one of the largest unitary , non-collegiate universities in Britain offering not only first-class tuition in every principal subject but also an unsurpassed range of undergraduate courses — a cosmopolitan University in a cosmopolitan city . |
| 13 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 14 | It follows that the cost of depreciation , which is based on the historic cost , is also a sunk cost and therefore an irrelevant cost . |
| 15 | In this treatment the vessel would have been wrapped in a zinc foil , placed in a solution of weak acid and then an electric current applied . |
| 16 | Scrapers : Another basic aid but nevertheless an indispensable tool particularly for heavy cleaning . |
| 17 | MacCormick suggests that it matters little , when faced with ‘ possible unjust exercises of the power of modern states organised under and in the name of ‘ law ’ … whether or not these represent a corruption of law in its ideal essence or simply an abuse of public power . ’ |
| 18 | When pupils are aware of this process , the design of concept maps , with their hierarchical arrays and interrelated groups , forms first a natural extension and then an eventual integration with the information handling process , whether done in the class or in inquiry work in the library . |
| 19 | It would be a massive oversimplification to see The Wedding Present 's excursion into Ukrainian music as merely an attempt by Peter Solowka to please his parents . |
| 20 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 21 | For teachers it can , however , sometimes seem like an administrative chore or merely an unwelcome interruption of the timetable . |
| 22 | Whether you save yourself , a wounded friend or even an unconscious attacker , the knowledge is vital . |
| 23 | The radio telephone is only a partial link since often an officer can not be located by it . |
| 24 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 25 | You may have vaginal thrush or perhaps an ‘ anaerobic ’ vaginitis , a very common infection which can be caused by various microbes , not necessarily sexually transmitted . |
| 26 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 27 | If you are wondering , for instance , why The Instant Calorie and Fibre Chart lists only three quarters of an ounce of shredded wheat and then an ounce or more of other cereals , ask yourself whether you have ever seen anyone eat one and a quarter , or perhaps one and one third , shredded wheats … |
| 28 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 29 | He seemed to be in a uniform of some sort , a slightly unconventional get-up but unmistakably an officer . |
| 30 | Thus , if a trustee of a family trust or a nominee or bare trustee or even an agent receives rent there can be a liability to income tax on him ( normally just at the basic rate but sometimes at the additional rate ) . |