Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil .
2 He was not merely an employer , entrepreneur or capitalist but socially a ‘ master ’ , a ‘ lord ’ ( Fabrikherr ) , a ‘ patron ’ or ‘ chef ‘ .
3 Single mothers and separated mothers were the next largest groups at around 20 per cent each and widows and lone fathers ( of whom two thirds are divorced or separated and almost a quarter widows ) are the smallest groups .
4 From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) .
5 The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him .
6 A pupil at Hummersknott School , she is studying for GCSEs and hopes to go on to do A levels in politics , economics and English and eventually a degree .
7 What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place .
8 But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down .
9 His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week .
10 She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged .
11 Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed .
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