Example sentences of "a [adj] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 2 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 3 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 4 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 5 | In public sector organizations , the distinction sometimes takes on a lesser and sometimes a greater importance . |
| 6 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 7 | Its system of rebates , discounts and exemptions , and the fact that it is partly a personal and partly a property tax certainly guarantee complexity with necessarily guaranteeing collectability . |
| 8 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 9 | Ashton makes brilliant use of this in his version of the solo , phrasing the steps so that a jump upwards can last three beats followed by two short steps or two beats followed by a long and then a short step . |
| 10 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
| 11 | Apart from the difference in the colour of the coat — there were blacks , chestnuts , a grey and even a piebald — the beasts were exactly alike . |
| 12 | The opponents have a confident sounding auction to a six diamond contract , during which South showed at least a five and probably a six card diamond suit . |
| 13 | We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals . |
| 14 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
| 15 | For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one . |
| 16 | From his earliest experience of Parliament , where he sat , as a commoner and then a peer , from 1689 until his death ( with one short interval in 1698–9 ) , he ‘ always made an agreeable figure ’ without ever establishing a reputation as an orator . |
| 17 | Well the tower is er I 'm not quite sure about the exact height of it it 's I think it 's a hundred and over a hundred and fifty feet high er the to the top of the dome I think it 's a hundred and fifty three feet high to the top of the dome . |
| 18 | " He has asked to do at least two details at night and if anyone falls sick he will ask to do a third and even a fourth . |
| 19 | These two then chase after a third and then a fourth . |
| 20 | When Sjahrir resigned , his successor was Amir Sjarifuddin , a Christian and supposedly a moderate . |