Example sentences of "an [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 2 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 3 | The stones glowed like warm apricots in the afternoon sun , and the jumble of towers and turrets with their high pointed roofs topped with blue-grey tiles had an endearing and slightly eccentric charm . |
| 4 | She stamped on my right big toe , forcing me to produce an involuntary and appallingly undignified yelp . |
| 5 | Demonstrations and disorders continued , some of them involving firearms , explosives and loss of life ; the decision of the Congress of People 's Deputies to elect an Azerbaijani as well as an Armenian to represent the region in the new Supreme Soviet aroused particular indignation . |
| 6 | In the case of pupils who are totally blind , or have little guiding sight , an orderly and reasonably predictable environment can help the pupil when he is still gaining confidence in independent mobility , but experience in purposeful movement and appropriate mobility training are even more essential . |
| 7 | It is better not to extend what was , after all , an accidental and purely professional relationship . |
| 8 | It is an acute and intelligently framed plan , which suggests that the encouragement of , or even provision for , large-scale recreation in these remote heartlands is quite inappropriate , that pressure needs to be taken off , not increased . |
| 9 | Having seen Mr Jeffreys and diagnosed an acute and fairly painful dose of tonsillitis , she had intended going straight back to her cabin , instead of which , without even being aware of it , she had walked in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | These cases represent an understandable but not always comforting compromise within the framework of the EC Treaty . |
| 11 | As well as being a tactless comment , it is an exaggerated and often untrue one . |
| 12 | Sometimes , however , the media can not be so easily deployed by political actors and the media may , in consequence , exert an indeterminate and sometimes capricious effect on the doings of political institutions and actors . |
| 13 | With an assured and calmly poised new backing singer , a new bod on keyboards and Mr C and Colin Angus at the helm , the Scottish explorers keep developing . |
| 14 | Lithuania 's Prime Minister , Kazimiera Prunskiene , in late April and early May conducted an extensive but largely fruitless round of foreign visits in the hope of securing recognition by Western governments for Lithuania 's independence and material support to alleviate the effects of the blockade . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly in a small fish with an extensive but virtually one-dimensional ( East-West ) range , different populations have developed different colour patterns , and perhaps in time these will become different species altogether . |
| 16 | It would be an extensive and sometimes brutal business , but the Society was the equal of the challenge . |
| 17 | There is an extensive and rapidly growing literature on the tectonics of plate interiors , but unfortunately much of it is written from a geophysical rather than a geomorphic perspective and it is not readily accessible to readers lacking a good grounding in physics and maths . |
| 18 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 19 | The ambulance service in London does an outstanding and poorly rewarded job under horrendous pressure . |
| 20 | From 1967 to 1975 he was the Ford Foundation 's representative in Nairobi , and was responsible for developing an innovative and highly influential programme to support the process of Africanisation . |
| 21 | The same story could be read in an expanded and slightly modified form in the Historiae Philippicae by Trogus Pompeius , a Celt who retailed Massaliote traditions and nostalgias at the time of Augustus . |
| 22 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 23 | Do n't think that because I 'm learning an absorbing and rather difficult trade I have no thoughts to spare for you . |
| 24 | Agassi is , like Becker one of those players who plays straight from the heart , and unless he sorts out what stops him taking winning opportunities — on an emotional as well as technical level — he may never fulfil his incredible potential . |
| 25 | Trisha says this was an emotional as well as a physical reality : ‘ This feeling of being out of control is like being on a roller coaster — there 's no way out . ’ |
| 26 | The director , even more impressed with the tall , meaty young man with a flashing smile and an indefinable and absolutely spurious air of distinction , gave him walk-on parts . |
| 27 | At 40 minutes this is an odd but oddly engrossing private journey . |
| 28 | Omit the pallor , which is an odd and perhaps over-modest intrusion into the account , and that sounds like Defoe or Dickens or Proust — or Murdoch : its converse , the crystalline novel , being ‘ a small quasi-allegorical object portraying the human condition , ’ which sounds like Rasselas , Waugh 's Decline and Fall or Orwell 's Animal Farm — not to mention the fiction of Muriel Spark , which can be artfully , even heartlessly , diagrammatic . |
| 29 | Certainly an admirable and very brave German . |
| 30 | They drove back out of Bourton in the gloomy still gusty dusk but even in that light the village sprawled around shallow stream criss-crossed with toy bridges had an undeniable if rather practised charm . |