Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was not merely a blurring but a confusion , of normal factional loyalties . |
| 2 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 3 | A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter |
| 4 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 6 | But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour . |
| 7 | Cos there 's only a red or a blue in there , so if I |
| 8 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 9 | Not that that 's necessarily a good or a bad thing . |
| 10 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 11 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 12 | He explained his position in an article , ‘ Sukarno by Himself ’ , which appeared in June 1941 : ‘ There are men who say Sukarno is a nationalist ; others say he is no longer a nationalist but a Muslim ; and others again say he is neither nationalist nor Muslim but a Marxist . |
| 13 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 14 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |
| 15 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 16 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 17 | There 's still a one and a half hour gap to be accounted for , and any link between Pinder and Dominic Wetherby would change the emphasis completely . |
| 18 | They brought forth a male and a female child , Geb ( earth ) and Nut ( sky ) . |
| 19 | This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life . |
| 20 | This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life . |
| 21 | He took advantage of both a feudal and a monarchical position , treating Frederick as a vassal of the papacy as well as emphasizing his papal rights of protecting a minor . |
| 22 | The second book , by Philip Lawton and David Goy , is more a book for the practitioner who is familiar with many of the details of tax law and who expects both a thorough and a comprehensive treatment of the subject at an appropriate high technical level . |
| 23 | The importance of the riots in pushing the law and order issue , and specifically policing , on to the main political agenda was emphasized by the Liberal leader , David Steel , who argued that ‘ urgent action ’ to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary from both a moral and a political perspective ( Hansard , vol. 13 , 26 November 1981 : cols. 1009–11 ) . |
| 24 | The headmaster responded in a similar way when asked if staff portrayed attitudes which are conducive for teaching in ‘ both a comprehensive and a multiracial school ’ . |
| 25 | The previous chapter and the present one have examined in detail the operation of both a fixed and a floating exchange rate system . |
| 26 | From that time to this Kiev has evolved , like Naples or Boston , into both a great and a provincial city . |
| 27 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 28 | Like all his most important decisions , this one had both a long and a short history . |
| 29 | In the English perception , empiricism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term . |
| 30 | Of course , this was both a political and a disciplinary measure . |