Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at this stage , is n't that rather an academic consideration ? |
| 2 | Sticking up into the Gulf of Mexico like a thumb , Yucatan points towards Miami and New Orleans , each only an hour and a half from Merida by air . |
| 3 | Or is this merely an unexpectedly concentrated pay-off for Christie 's long-standing ( since 1766 ) rapport with the oldest and grandest British families ? |
| 4 | Or is this just an elaborate distraction created by her mind to avoid facing her infertility ? |
| 5 | Is this just an ordinary camera you 've used ? |
| 6 | Is this just an aberration , if you look at the road markings , you 'll see it seems to be official , cos the road is marked out for driving on the right , and the reason is that er , traffic law in this country says , that vehicles drive on the left , except in Savoy Street . |
| 7 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 8 | But is this really an unlikely choice ? |
| 9 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |
| 10 | If the CRCs are different then an error message is output . |
| 11 | This maybe an interesting and illuminating exercise . |
| 12 | Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up . |
| 13 | ‘ Or is that just an Eldar wearing a human mask ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | British industrialists are getting agitated about an £8bn interest-free loan that they 've made to the Government . |
| 15 | Eventually I arrived at Number 10 about an hour late . |
| 16 | The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter . |
| 17 | It is perhaps hard for twentieth-century man , accustomed to consult maps for any journey , to realize how limited even an intelligent man 's knowledge might be , and how gaps in his information could well be filled by colourful and confused imagination . |
| 18 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 20 | But since agriculture forms the basis of our industry , it was by and large also an intensification of the crisis in the national economy in general . |
| 21 | 8.3 Following an episode of violence , positive support should be available for the individual directly involved . |
| 22 | Moreover , a reduction of frequency from four to three following an intervention is equally likely to give a misleading impression of the efficacy of the intervention . |
| 23 | The semi-embalmed remains of Col. William Higgins were discovered in Beirut 's southern suburbs on Dec. 21 following an anonymous telephone call . |
| 24 | This is only a guide , of course , but your score can be interpreted as follows : 9–15 Definitely a lark 16–20 Moderately a lark 21–26 Neither a lark nor an owl ; intermediate type 27–31 Moderately an owl 32–38 Definitely an owl |
| 25 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 26 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
| 27 | I do not agree that such a postmodern attack on autonomous and auratic culture is at all necessarily an offensive against ‘ bourgeois ’ art . |
| 28 | all together an easy to use and very handy electronic diary . |
| 29 | It was all only an excuse . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're good enough an actress to be invited to our Fenice theatre . ’ |