Example sentences of "an [adj] [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 2 | But this again was an administrative rather than a policy-making body . |
| 3 | They are likely to reflect an itinerant rather than a permanent presence . |
| 4 | There were times when Rose felt as if she were split in half — an interesting rather than a painful experience . |
| 5 | ‘ AN ADEQUATE rather than a particularly inspired Smiths single that still shreds the rest of the week 's pop dross . |
| 6 | It is the person towards whom the words or conduct are directed — an actual rather than a hypothetical person — who must be likely to believe that the violence will be used , either against himself or another . |
| 7 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 8 | The law and procedure of his court have an international rather than a purely English character ; it administers a law which is to be found in the medieval maritime codes , such as the Laws of Oleron and the so-called Law of Rhodes ; in the background , as a supplementary law , is the Civil or Roman law . |
| 9 | The LEA 's role in the Programme was an interventionist rather than a facilitating one : it devised PNP 's goals and strategy , and sought closely to influence and control the Programme 's implementation . |
| 10 | It could be used , as it was by Bacon and Mersenne , to justify an empirical rather than a rationalist approach to nature . |
| 11 | True proportions are denied in favour of an intuitive rather than a rigorously intellectual style . |
| 12 | Dotty told him he was worrying needlessly seeing he was a Methodist , a belief which favoured an artificial rather than a natural classification of guilt . |
| 13 | But it 's an artistic rather than a scientific decision , when to stop . |
| 14 | You are likely to make a mess of it , lose your To Do list or confront people in an attacking rather than a rational way . |
| 15 | It is probably an occasional rather than a regular feature of most people 's sex lives . |
| 16 | Obviously , in terms of calories you can afford to drink a greater quantity of alcohol if it is an occasional rather than a daily indulgence . |
| 17 | As an evidential rather than a substantive doctrine ‘ reasonable ’ cashes out as ‘ credible ’ . |
| 18 | Furthermore , in forging a connection between juvenile employment and education , they helped to portray the transition as essentially an educational rather than a trade process . |
| 19 | Since the mid-1980s , when autonomy was conceded to the Atlantic coast and the principle of bilingual , bi-cultural education was established , the question of language became an educational more than a political problem . |
| 20 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 21 | IF DAVID HOCKNEY had been born in 1837 instead of 1937 , he would have become an Olympian rather than a Californian . |
| 22 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 23 | A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to . |
| 24 | I felt like an invited rather than a paying guest , as I shook hands with Mr and Mrs Noone . |
| 25 | Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants . |
| 26 | The former approach offers the student a continuity of learning , although often within an academic rather than a practical framework . |
| 27 | Its non-threatening nature , being focused at an institutional rather than a personal level , is a further attraction . |