Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board took the view that it was not in the national interest that such complete information about the whole nation should be in private hands and after a prolonged and bitterly fought legal battle it won — ensuring the perpetual hostility of Readers Digest the world over to any suggestion of data protection thereafter . |
| 2 | Miracu-lously , Matt Busby survived after a long and seemingly impossible fight for life . |
| 3 | Lady Caroline later settled for an annuity of £15,000 after a squalid and gleefully publicised court case . |
| 4 | MY husband and I arrived home in Dumfriesshire , after a memorable and highly emotional weekend in dear old Liverpool . |
| 5 | These two then chase after a third and then a fourth . |
| 6 | After a pious and seemingly untroubled Christian upbringing , he was duly confirmed in 1861 at the age of sixteen , but within a year was already casting a cold eye on the case for a " literalistic attitude " towards Christian doctrine and asserting that " the existence of God , immortality , the authority of the Bible , inspiration and other things will always remain problems . |
| 7 | Even the youngest children worked assiduously to achieve the goal of a correct and mutually agreed route and destination . |
| 8 | We should have broken up before but there is every prospect of a late and long hopping in which case we should have difficulty in making the necessary attendances . ’ |
| 9 | The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument . |
| 10 | The city 's architecture captures the memory of the 17th century wealth of a seafaring and predominantly trading nation . |
| 11 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 12 | But suddenly , social life and entertainment , or the lack of it , faded into insignificance for me , with the arrival from North Africa of a mysterious and rather unsubtly coded letter which one did not have to be a cryptanalyst to interpret as evidence that Leslie was coming home . |
| 13 | But if you are looking for an energetic , pacy saga about medical scientists on the hunt for the cause of a mysterious and horrendously lethal infection , forget about Foreman , Peters and the hordes of novelists who continue to exploit that particular lode . |
| 14 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 15 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 16 | Her long face , with thick eyebrows , is that of a pleasant and ever-so-slightly bored horse , but she also has long legs , and no bottom to speak of , and wears her hair long , straight and black to her shoulders . |
| 17 | This is an impressive performance which provides a clear demonstration that through the provision of a comprehensive and carefully targeted range of marketing support schemes , the IDB is helping local companies of all sizes to develop their international competitiveness , expand their exporting capability and market share and win significant new international business , thereby creating growth and sustained and stable employment . |
| 18 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 19 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 20 | This first part of a scholarly and sometimes challenging book contains plenty to set the pavilions buzzing with discussion . |
| 21 | Most young children luckily will respond to the authority of a stranger and so the task is not as daunting as it sounds . |
| 22 | But I beg you to believe that there are also men of a wiser and more experienced sort , who by no means decline all consideration of negotiating terms . |
| 23 | The Messiah whom Jesus 's contemporaries awaited was a variant of a familiar and long established principle . |
| 24 | Iain Crichton Smith 's An Honourable Death ( Macmillan , £13.99 ) remains firmly rooted in fact , tracing the career of a real and profoundly troubled figure , Hector Macdonald , a crofter 's son who joins the army on impulse at 17 and rose brilliantly through the ranks to become Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald , the real hero of Omdurman , before homosexual scandal ended his career and his life . |
| 25 | The HDF , led by Jozsef Antall , a 57-year-old historian , favoured the privatization of state property " within the context of a reasonable and socially controlled process " . |
| 26 | The extent to which radio is able to cater for the tastes and interests of an urban , educated audience at the expense of a rural and less well-educated one is easily overlooked . |
| 27 | All these , as well as many of their innocent relatives and acquaintances , were to find themselves condemned to the mercies of a capricious and often brutal exile administration which many were neither physically nor spiritually able to withstand . |
| 28 | The latter have also been aware of a closer and more detailed interest in how they use resources and efficiency : ‘ cost-improvement ’ programmes have been introduced and performance scrutinised . |
| 29 | It is only with the development of more radical differentiation in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century that it is possible to speak of a fully-fledged and optimally differentiated cultural modernity . |
| 30 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |