Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter |
| 2 | Naturally , my master bowed and I had to follow suit , reminding myself with a secret smile that Wolsey was only a commoner and no better than me . |
| 3 | I bit her nose — only a little and the tiniest bit of blood . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They brought forth a male and a female child , Geb ( earth ) and Nut ( sky ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Moreover , the socialist ideology of Cuba meant a different motivation for pupils and workers from that existing in capitalist countries — ‘ to work for collective rather than personal objectives ’ — with the result that education in Cuba became both a technical and an ideological force for greater productivity . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | The previous chapter and the present one have examined in detail the operation of both a fixed and a floating exchange rate system . |
| 18 | From that time to this Kiev has evolved , like Naples or Boston , into both a great and a provincial city . |
| 19 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 20 | Thus , in theory , X could , simultaneously , have both a legal and an equitable lease . |
| 21 | Like all his most important decisions , this one had both a long and a short history . |
| 22 | In the English perception , empiricism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term . |
| 23 | Of course , this was both a political and a disciplinary measure . |
| 24 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 25 | This is , we think , both a sportsmanlike and a businesslike way of dealing with the matter , and will , we feel sure , meet with the support of everybody . ’ |
| 26 | In many cases , a material may exhibit the characteristics of both a liquid and a solid and neither of the limiting laws will adequately describe its behaviour . |
| 27 | As such , the artists producing animal portraits in the 19th century enjoyed both a wide and a positively receptive market for their works . |
| 28 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |
| 29 | The Programme will have both a specific and a general relevance to current policy concerns . |
| 30 | There was also an interest in integrating local authorities more closely with the developing machinery for economic management at both a regional and a national level . |