Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb -s] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is directed against an opponent it ceases to be self-suffering and becomes instead a form of coercion , which is an aspect of violence , and as such unacceptable . |
| 2 | She gets very down and depressed and rings here a lot . |
| 3 | The tank is unfiltered but contains only a very few fish at any one time . |
| 4 | country carrier , a ‘ lumbering , slow , honest ’ fellow and devoted husband of the much younger Mary ( called Dot ) , who is very domesticated but has also a capacity for managing other people 's affairs ; to wit , those of Edward Plummer and May Fielding , who , but for Dot 's secret intervention , would have married the disagreeable Tackleton . |
| 5 | The instrument is self-standing and requires only a mains connection . |
| 6 | This new construction can be cultured and develops quite a nice tooth , but now the sheet of cells that would have become the skin of the foot is induced to make enamel . |
| 7 | We must have the faith that vision can be developed in men just as creativity can be — it is trainable and represents only a higher evolutionary development and it is , therefore , open to all human beings . |