Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 2 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 3 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 4 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 5 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 6 | Life may indeed have been nasty , brutal and short a few hundred thousand years ago , but there are those who claim that at least the shortness was a benefit in comparison with modern human existence . |
| 7 | Imported by Clara Hurley and Michael Grossman , when he was five years old and already a Dutch and Belgian champion , he gained his title taking a Best in Show along the way . |
| 8 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 9 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 10 | In public sector organizations , the distinction sometimes takes on a lesser and sometimes a greater importance . |
| 11 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 12 | It 's a big stage event with a very abstract brief , very exciting but not a fancy dress show . ’ |
| 13 | But they were not all the same groups within the different daily and Sunday categories each year : for instance , Beaverbrook was a top daily but not a top Sunday group in 1947 . |
| 14 | New price lists tell and interesting but not a consistent story . |
| 15 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 16 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 17 | Maybe that 's just me , but that 's how I feel … there 's no warmth … just red paint around the outside and then a few splodges gone over with different coloured paint and [ he ] hoped for the best … |
| 18 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 19 | The latter part of the take-off run had been into-wind and up a slight incline towards a ridge topped by trees with a fall-away of the ground on the far side . |
| 20 | An executive director of Noble Grossart Limited and also a non-executive director of Amicable Smaller Enterprises Trust PLC , Stagecoach Holdings PLC , Pict Petroleum plc and a number of other companies . |
| 21 | Most changes are minimal and so a further proof is not necessary . |
| 22 | The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |
| 24 | Several contractors have had it and it 's never been right and eventually a few days or weeks later a man comes round to pick up the grass which has already flown everywhere so it 's too late and a wa total waste of money . |
| 25 | He is of good family , educated , rich and therefore a perfect match . |
| 26 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 27 | He has argued that such a thing is indeed possible and often a potential solution to the legitimation crisis ' . |
| 28 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 29 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 30 | Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems . |