Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just as delectable is the light , slick and superbly swift gearchange , an almost sublimely progressive clutch action and as taut a driveline as you 'll encounter ; driving the 325i in traffic could hardly be easier . |
| 32 | He undergoes a complete change of heart and character after a series of ghostly visitations in a dream and ends up ‘ as good a friend , as good a master , and as good a man , as the good old city knew ’ . |
| 33 | It is a musical play , and has been adapted from the satirical novel of 1905 by Heinrich Mann — brother of Thomas Mann , and as fine a writer . |
| 34 | The lord of Glyndyfrdwy had been as well-tutored in arms as in law , and as apt a pupil ; he had , moreover , all the experience that Edmund lacked . |
| 35 | Out here is dark and lonely , and as convenient a place as they could wish for to stick a knife in and leave me cold . |
| 36 | Why Michael Atherton was not immediately drafted in when the experience of Gooch was lost before the start , with Stewart being told to keep wicket as originally planned , remains one of the mysteries of the tour — and as crass a selection error as leaving out Phil Tufnell from the first Test at Calcutta . |
| 37 | And before that a succession of rooms . |
| 38 | Duke never repeated that achievement , and now such a ride is no longer possible . |
| 39 | The nine , well you go down into and you get a bus go wherever it dropped you and then half a mile , mind you that 's gon na cost you about fifty P |
| 40 | His time was only six seconds outside that of another Barcelona-bound athlete , Dave Long , and almost half a minute faster than third choice , Paul Davies-Hale , both of whom did not run . |
| 41 | There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps . |
| 42 | The pound had a good day , and gained 1.5 pfennigs to Dm2.4138 and almost half a cent to $1.4491 , encouraged both by the prospect of no further cuts in interest rates and the evidence of a modest UK economic recovery contained in the retail sales figures . |
| 43 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 44 | One person may have ‘ butterflies ’ , another diarrhoea , another vomiting , and yet another a migraine . |
| 45 | However , the ruins of the old city are clearly visible , stretching along the coast and over half a mile inland . |
| 46 | Hamish turned to another exhibit ; a broad bowl , also dull and dark , and over half a metre across , it was like a gigantic plate with no lip . |
| 47 | Yes , I feel very anxious and very frustrated a lot of the time . |
| 48 | There was too little time and too great a crisis . |
| 49 | However , not long after , Grisewood resigned and Mrs Whitehouse later said that he was , to her mind , ‘ too sincere and too gentle a Christian to be at ease amongst the demolition men who frequented the BBC at the time ’ . |
| 50 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 51 | Was it too universal a theme for the Gaelic fund committee to tackle , too big a scale of project , too close to reality and too controversial a subject ? |
| 52 | It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections , with its many waits , and there was her luggage . |
| 53 | It takes time for the validity or fruitfulness of any academic development to become clear , and too rapid a response to intellectual fashions could leave institutions with an embarrassing residue of dubious courses , which once installed are difficult to dislodge . |
| 54 | The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure . |
| 55 | And too willing a body . |