Example sentences of "[det] [conj] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a member of this or an allied tribe . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 3 | If you find on reading this that an existing process would have benefited from different values at . |
| 4 | And it may be a comforting thought to some that an Australian company is experimenting with eco-friendly coffins made of newspapers , which are cheap and biodegradable . |
| 5 | Feuding factions pile on the agony as one shire knight is ruined by another and an honoured guest seduces his host 's new bride . |
| 6 | As Derby bade farewell to one striker , they missed out on another when an ambitious move to bring a Colombian World Cup winger to the Baseball Ground fell through . |
| 7 | I take this to mean that there is an equality , a reciprocity between the aesthetic and the political such that an aesthetic dimension or response can give the lie to a political claim . |
| 8 | Thus it does appear that the search space can be such that an admissible algorithm will perform in an excessively breadth-first manner . |
| 9 | The nature of British law is such that an adverse ruling becomes a " precedent " for later cases , and the basis for cautious legal advice in the future . |
| 10 | The structure of the transaction may be such that an early dialogue with the Panel is likely to be useful . |
| 11 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 12 | The details of how to best look after a NiCad battery are much too complicated to go into in the answer to a letter and there is n't much that an innocent user can do to help anyway . |
| 13 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 14 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 15 | Once again the tip-toe manoeuvre — but this time it 's not quite an apology so much as an unsuccessful account . |
| 16 | As for covering up the work , Crack Wars nees that about as much as an Egyptian mummy needs a paper bag over its head . |
| 17 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 18 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |
| 19 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 20 | The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt . |
| 21 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 22 | Accordingly a minimum of £5 will be preferred in the present work , not so much as an arbitrary demarcation , but rather as one which should prompt us to seek further evidence to confirm the holder 's status . |
| 23 | There was a man I worked with — I done seven seasons along with him : and there was n't so much as an angry word or dammit passed between us . |
| 24 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |
| 25 | That and an awful lot more . ’ |
| 26 | With the help of that and an increasing salary I was able to get a mortgage on my own small flat just outside London . ’ |
| 27 | The Forest Deer had more than just the antlers sticking out of his costume , the animal ballet was just that and an X-rated version of ‘ Hi-Ho ’ was rendered by seven stage-hands with boots on their knees . |
| 28 | A void title on the other hand is no title at all and an innocent purchaser who buys from someone with a void title can derive no benefit from section 23 ( although , of course , he might acquire good title by virtue of some other exception to the ‘ nemo dat ’ principle ) . |
| 29 | A favourite of many and an all-time classic you ca n't afford to be without . |
| 30 | Colour all but an egg-shaped piece of the remaining fondant green . |