Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 2 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
| 3 | Her long face , with thick eyebrows , is that of a pleasant and ever-so-slightly bored horse , but she also has long legs , and no bottom to speak of , and wears her hair long , straight and black to her shoulders . |
| 4 | The sun flames orange and pink behind the trees above the house , the breeze is cool rather than cold , scented with flowers and the sea , and you think what a pleasant if rather bland place this would be to settle down . |
| 5 | Within a period of about 20Myr ( taking the Ediacaran faunas as 560Myr old and the base of the Cambrian as 540Myr old ) , the oceans changed from habitats housing a rich but effectively microscopic biota , to one teeming with macroscopic animals engaged in a wide range of ecologies and presumably showing a degree of behavioural sophistication . |
| 6 | We may employ slang terms or colloquialisms — and English has a rich and constantly changing vocabulary of such words and phrases . |
| 7 | In the first condition individuals that breed soonest produce young at the peak of a rich and often superabundant period of food production . |
| 8 | If the Greeks had , for instance , thought through the deepest problems of life and if Germans aspired to emulate their profundity , the Greeks had also possessed a rich and much admired language which was likewise not beyond emulation . |
| 9 | In the centre of a rich and densely populated countryside with ready access by canal and river to 5 of the most populous counties in Ireland it still remained ‘ but a small town of very insignificant appearance ’ with only about 867 inhabitants . |
| 10 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 11 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 12 | The door can converse intelligently , and has a haughty and slightly sarcastic tone of voice . |
| 13 | She had only met them once and they had seemed a friendly and most devoted couple . |
| 14 | It wo n't take long before you 're chatting with a friendly and always charming Viennese . |
| 15 | This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) . |
| 16 | ) . Their biggest hit was called ‘ But I Love Sergeyevitch ! ’ which was probably the first pop song to treat Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev in a friendly if rather frivolous manner . |
| 17 | The European variety has the advantage of a simpler and better understood theory of pricing , but it is a less flexible instrument . |
| 18 | He no longer made conventional bread with all the kneading and rising stages , but soda bread , which is a simpler and much quicker process . |
| 19 | Some things have , however , changed at a simpler and much more direct level . |
| 20 | A simpler and more pleasant way of achieving the same end was to use jade vessels for food and drink . |
| 21 | As this inhibition was less than the accompanying inhibition of PGE 2 it was possible to argue that some substrate diversion might have occurred , although weak inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme by indomethacin seems a simpler and more plausible explanation . |
| 22 | But conventionalism can not be justified on the sole ground that surprise is inefficient or undesirable in these ways , because conventionalism does not protect against surprise as well as a simpler and more straightforward theory of adjudication would . |
| 23 | ‘ We have concluded that future growth opportunities can best be exploited by a simpler and more efficient organisation than exists today and we will be making a significant capital investment to increase production efficiency at our Kirkliston site as well as increasing our marketing effort worldwide . ’ |
| 24 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 25 | I found Basil a shy and rather quiet man who had a deep sense of fun under his quiet exterior . |
| 26 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
| 27 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 28 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |
| 29 | In March 1990 Iain Vallance , its chairman , announced a reorganisation programme called Project Sovereign , aimed at achieving ‘ a leaner and more supple organisation , structured to meet the differing needs of all our customers . |
| 30 | that 's erm , that 's a slip road what you , and then , your next lane you stay in that lane , only use a right and then if you want to overtake you go into right and then back into right |