Example sentences of "[conj] an [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore where an otherwise innocent article is concerned it can only become an offensive weapon if the accused intended to use it to cause personal injury . |
| 2 | The forests of banners and guidons which adorned every street corner hung limp and sodden , and where an otherwise laudable economy had resulted in the use of cheap cloth the colours had run so that the insignia upon the panels was streaked and indecipherable . |
| 3 | The SROs may in fact be subject to ‘ regulatory capture ’ , where an initially independent body set up to police a particular form of business is ‘ captured ’ by the very institutions it is trying to regulate , and becomes a lobby or mouthpiece working on behalf of the industry . |
| 4 | This is especially true if you are playing a sport such as squash , where an extremely high level of stamina is needed right from the very beginning . |
| 5 | But there is that other Baden , just a short walk away ( or an even shorter bus ride ) with a quaint medieval quarter where you can wander amid graceful patrician houses , delightfully styled and decorated , and admire the care with which they have been preserved . |
| 6 | Pierre Le Rue may not have mega sales or an exceptionally large following behind him , but the combination of the band 's musical ability and his stage presence made for a very enjoyable evening . |
| 7 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 8 | I mean , either they have an incredibly narrow life , or an amazingly large ring binder . |
| 9 | If you 're looking to history for inspiration or entertainment , or an indecently brilliant rock ‘ n ’ roll story , then comes feast on ‘ Bodies ’ , ‘ Anarchy ’ , ‘ Problems ’ , the finer recorded works of Ye Olde Sexe Pistols . |
| 10 | It was , however , a month or two before they gave up sending me colourful brochures with inducements to have a rose bush planted in his name or an attractively calligraphed entry in their ‘ Book of Remembrance ’ , to be opened every year on the date of his death to commemorate his passing etc , etc , none of which was cheap and I 'm sure that neither I nor anyone else who knew him will need that kind of reminder . |
| 11 | Competing labelled antigen may be an enzyme or an optically active label . |
| 12 | Warmth from a bath or an electrically heated blanket may also help . |
| 13 | Failure of a fire to draw properly , or too much smoke in the room , can have a number of causes — such as an overlarge fireplace , a blocked flue , a cold flue or an insufficiently high chimney . |
| 14 | First , there is the conversion of a sol ( a colloidal solution ) to a gel ( or an infinitely connected network of polymer chains ) , which is approximately described as formally similar to a critical phenomenon , and for which the formalism of scaling theories is applicable and secondly , the conversion of the gel to a much less compliant , rigid glass , which is governed by diffusion processes . |
| 15 | There is usually some characteristic along the route — perhaps a ledge or an especially rich bed of bloodworms — which has a special attraction , but quite often it is a turning point , or the terminal point , of a beat which is the hotspot . |
| 16 | It is not that she possesses dazzling charm or an especially brilliant intellect , but he enjoys her company so long as he thinks their friendship is platonic . |
| 17 | But tone of voice , studied indifference , or an apparently harmless question may carry a weight of meaning based on years of sniping and criticism . |
| 18 | If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil . |
| 19 | For completeness , the Report appended under the heading ‘ Project Appraisal ’ a questionnaire listing the considerations that any appraisal , whether of a proposed rescue , or conversion of an existing organisation to the co-operative form , or an entirely new start , would have to weigh . |
| 20 | The investment hinges on market research currently being conducted among existing and prospective customers as to whether they favour an upgraded ATP or an entirely new aircraft . |
| 21 | If a centre wishes to package a programme of units/modules into a group award , either a new programme to result in an existing group award title or an entirely new group award title , the proposal will be assessed against criteria which cover : |
| 22 | But the tendency of such an argument is in the direction of complete relativism , or an entirely arbitrary nominalism , of the type represented by Humpty Dumpty in Alice through the Looking-glass : " " When I use a word " , Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone , " it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more or less . " " |
| 23 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |
| 24 | For surface transport , although an equally high energy density fuel is unnecessary , an effective method of energy storage is vital . |
| 25 | Although an intensely private person , and in many ways an unusual one , Basil had a most affecting belief in the place of art in the lives of those culturally much simpler and perhaps more worldly than himself . |
| 26 | So it was that an otherwise desultory exchange , from opposite ends of the universe , was suddenly enlivened by the discovery of common ground when Grundy observed , ‘ You 're more drunk than I am . ’ |
| 27 | In the following extract we see that an equally offensive act is one in which a soft teacher tries to assert authority , but when challenged gives in . |
| 28 | Later writers , even those sympathetic to Antal 's thesis , have admitted that the argument about class conflict in the period was exaggerated , but this does not exclude the possibility that an equally unexpected approach may not throw light on some apparently exhausted topic . |
| 29 | As to the periods of restraint , the court observed that their reasonableness was " hardly susceptible of proof by specific evidence " , " some weight should be given to the fact that the restriction is found in a partnership agreement which has evidently been carefully drafted and which must be taken to represent the views of experienced solicitors who would be well aware that an unduly severe restriction would be unenforceable " . |
| 30 | Apparently fearing that an increasingly angry president might try to disband the legislature , deputies also voted to continue their session into a fourth day today , ‘ to watch attentively that the executive observes the constitution ’ , in the words of the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov . |