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 However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status .
13 For the history of linguistic analysis in the West is overwhelmingly a prescriptive and overtly a political one .
14 When Sjahrir resigned , his successor was Amir Sjarifuddin , a Christian and supposedly a moderate .
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