Example sentences of "a [adj] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw with pleasure that she looked cold but not frightened ; she was beginning to swim more slowly and for the first time with trust , as if the water were a friendly and not an alien element . |
| 2 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 5 | This is partly a technical and partly a practical question , and on the practical side it is rather too soon to give any judgement . |
| 6 | But this is a political and not an economic choice . |
| 7 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
| 8 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 9 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In public sector organizations , the distinction sometimes takes on a lesser and sometimes a greater importance . |
| 13 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 16 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 17 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 18 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | From 1869 he published several papers on speech disorders , describing a visual and later an auditory word centre , as well as word blindness and word deafness ( later known as Wernicke 's aphasia ) . |
| 21 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 22 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
| 25 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
| 26 | For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one . |
| 27 | But the rapid and dramatic changes which are taking place in the world today , changes of a hopeful and not a frightening kind , could help to make a long-serving government more vulnerable to the time-for-a-change mentality . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom is a unitary and not a federal state , thus if central government is really serious about any policy it will get its way ( Griffith , 1965 ) . |
| 29 | That Vic Williams was a voluntary and not a conscripted soldier was irrelevant to the issue of conscientious objection , she added . |
| 30 | When Sjahrir resigned , his successor was Amir Sjarifuddin , a Christian and supposedly a moderate . |