Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But when he spoke it was not of her but of Peach , how to feed him , what sort of supplements he should have , that although he had had his routine immunizations , he must have a booster at a year old and also an injection against a new sort of feline virus .
2 Hope sprang up in her , because if Caspar could make the Robemaker believe that he was merely foolish and not an intruder , they might have a chance .
3 Known as ‘ Fizzer ’ to his colleagues and our fans , Phil played in every game of Palace 's promotion season of 1988–89 and only an injury , sustained on his 1st Division debut at Queens Park Rangers , prevented him from completing full appearances in 1989–90 , although he was an ever-present member of the team that reached the 1990 FA Cup Final and so nearly seized the famous trophy .
4 The part number , like the module name , must be unique and therefore an error will be indicated if you try to reserve a package name equal to a part number which already exists .
5 The part number , like the module name , must be unique and therefore an error will be indicated if you try to reserve a module name equal to a part number which already exists .
6 First recorded in 1960 and possibly an offshoot of the Fishbourne colony .
7 ‘ The manager must be flexible but consistent , culturally diverse but recognisably an individual with his own identity .
8 This , for example , is why he believed Hobbes ( and himself ) to be an authoritarian but not an absolutist .
9 Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half .
10 It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure .
11 It differs from the Biogas specimen in the shape of the dorsal arm spines , which appear to be equal and nearly an arm segment long .
12 Smaller stones about four to six inches long and only an inch wide which have broken ends could easily have been used to knock limpets off rocks .
13 Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law .
14 First , the restitutionary remedy is expressed to be available not only against ‘ that person , ’ i.e. the contravener of section 3 or perhaps an associate of the contravener , but also against ‘ any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’
15 The Americans love their sport and are just as fervent and passionate , but they have made their stadiums comfortable and safe and also an outing for the family .
16 The House of Lords can only look more and more an anachronism .
17 Ed 's comment : Great care must be taken to ensure that the rocks used have no hidden cavities which might cause cracking or even an explosion when overheated .
18 Not only are they usually paid below the legal minimum — a study in 1984 showed three quarters of homeworkers in Britain were earning 1 or less an hour — but they also have to carry the overheads of heating and lighting .
19 The envelope was about six inches by four and almost an inch thick .
20 This ‘ newness ’ , which is not really new but more an expansion of the rigid barriers of the individual self so that we see something as if we were not ourselves , is , I believe , one of the attributes of authentic , pleasurable art .
21 This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot .
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