Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How specific or broad a range of wastes constitute a waste type is debatable . |
| 2 | For these mistakes have led to the belief that extension , the subject-matter of geometry , is infinitely divisible , a belief ‘ thought to have so inseparable and essential a connection with the principles and demonstrations in geometry , that mathematicians never … make the least question of it ’ . |
| 3 | So it goes , yellow , yellow ochre erm scarlet red , crimson , that 's the dark red , light green , dark green erm , sky blue , indigo purple , brown and black a lot of people get mixed up |
| 4 | to accept as one of their primary aims and responsibilities the achievement and maintenance of as high and stable a level of employment as possible , with a view to the attainment of full employment . |
| 5 | Its door was only a metre high and half a metre wide , so I could only just get inside on my hands and knees . |
| 6 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 7 | Of all contemporary cricketers , there can surely be no more appropriate or eligible a subject . |
| 8 | Effective help is not always as easy or obvious a thing to give as we might like . |
| 9 | No matter how erm , simple or small a change you 're making , you 'll probably think oh , that 's bound to work , no need to test that , such a simple change . |
| 10 | With typical Teutonic thoroughness , the Bölkow 's operating handbook is as comprehensive and useful a document as any I have encountered , with a proper alphabetical index and much more than just the bare minimum information required by the authorities . |
| 11 | Lead Versus Health , edited by Michael Rutter and Robin Russell Jones , is written in a much more scientific and reasonable manner , and its 15 chapters , by various experts who are well-known as researchers in this field , give as comprehensive and impartial a survey of the evidence ( including new evidence ) as we are likely to get from any source . |
| 12 | Soon , carving etiquette might well be as developed and intricate a ritual as chess and , when it did get that advanced it would probably be in Wimbledon but , for the moment , Henry was faced with the unattractive prospect of involuntary double murder . |
| 13 | Under the Listing Particulars Directive , it is a condition of admission to listing that the issuer publishes listing particulars which contain , in as easily analysable and comprehensive a form as possible , the applicable items listed in the Directive . |
| 14 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 15 | Restrop is of as perfect and pure a style as Elizabethan houses of this size ever reached . |
| 16 | bring into active play all the possible forces , schools and clubs , etc. , to neutralise and overcome the pernicious influences of ‘ blind alley ’ employment , to insure that , however uneducative and useless a juvenile 's job may be from the point of view of the future , he shall not on that account emerge from it unfitted for any other kind of labour . |
| 17 | All their monstrous systems have so visible and necessary a dependence on it , that when this corner-stone is once removed , the whole fabric can not choose but fall to the ground . ’ |
| 18 | So profitable and powerful a monopoly , however efficiently administered , could not last for long . |
| 19 | Members of the education department and councillors alike have constantly striven to provide a high standard of education for as rich and diverse a society as one can imagine . |
| 20 | People surged forward and back ; the Man realized he was needed and turned to go out of Woil 's cage , probably thinking that if he left the door ajar for only a moment Woil was too placid and safe a bird to try to escape . |
| 21 | And if Asylnuratova does not possess the imperturbable technique of a Guillem , the expressiveness of her dancing is matched by so mobile and luminous a face that everyone else on stage looks slightly blank . |
| 22 | That was far too weak and mild a word for the emotions he stirred . |
| 23 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 24 | And amongst neighbours , an executive found guilty of corporate crime continues to be regarded as ‘ upright and steadfast ; indeed , they will probably see him as solid and substantial a citizen as they themselves are ’ ( Geis 1978 : 283 ) . |
| 25 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 26 | Maybe part of the trouble is also Raymond Leppard 's handling of the orchestral accompaniment , the quavers of which chug along in too solid and inflexible a manner . |
| 27 | As we all know , no matter how slick and glossy a campaign , it will never sell the unsellable . |
| 28 | A day earlier , some of these veterans had taken part in as emotional and personal a demonstration against a president as Washington has seen for years . |
| 29 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 30 | Our provisional conclusion can be no more than that Rawls and others arguing for neutrality in similar ways fail to establish their case , and that sometimes they assume too quick or simple a connection between neutrality and personal autonomy . |