Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite a doll — good shape , good teeth , nice skin , and most likely a virgin , to judge from the wet bloke she knocked around with . |
| 2 | Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 4 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 5 | Maggie feels no doubt about that : so small a word , so small and so necessary a word is bound to survive , to slip through the net of destruction that she and Fenna — no , that she herself , alone — will loose on the cold sky tonight . |
| 6 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 7 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 8 | After a while , as he was thus musing , there appeared before him one in white garments , who said unto him , Sleepest thou or wakest thou , Rodrigo ? and he answered and said , I do not sleep : but who art thou that bringest with thee such brightness and so sweet an odour ? |
| 9 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 10 | So you start by saying ( and these are purely arbitrary divisions , you can work out your own ) : ‘ We 're here for three nights and four days , let's have one evening completely free , two or three meals in different , interesting locations ( include transport time ) and perhaps half a day free for shopping . |
| 11 | They do not all live in the same place , but in any one place there may be more than one , and perhaps half a dozen , species . |
| 12 | During the first nine months of 1992 , 47 companies obtained a full listing and only five a USM quotation . |
| 13 | The Christian Dior route is to calmly evolve and constantly fine-tune a modern image . |
| 14 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 15 | ‘ They were the fun part , because she was lovely and just such a giggle . ’ |
| 16 | An RAF spokesman said : ‘ There were power lines nearby and just half a mile away there was a sheer cliff . |
| 17 | Twenty should be alright and just half an inch to go round the corner . |
| 18 | An avenue of limes , dead straight and exactly half a statute mile in length , ran from the gates to the big house at Maran Hill . |
| 19 | Without any warning , and hardly half a ring , the phone was answered . |
| 20 | Lift-off occurs at fifty knots , and once airborne a climb speed of 65 knots is aimed for . |
| 21 | Pink curtains we had there and ever such a nice tea service . |
| 22 | And nearly half a century later , when The Cantos would tail off ( not discreditably ) in ‘ Drafts and Fragments ’ , Pound would still be purveying the same message , in terms of ‘ the gardens of Proserpine ’ , the mineral and metallic gardens that Proserpine according to the myth created in the underworld , to duplicate as ‘ art ’ the springing herbage that she inspired in spring and summer through her six months in the overworld . |
| 23 | The use of timber frame in house building quadrupled in the 1970s and nearly half a million houses were built by this method . |
| 24 | On that floor they found a variety of soft drinks , and took some bottles of lemonade , soda water and Irn Bru , and also half a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |
| 25 | It has been questioned whether there is much resemblance between a student working in the Nuffield mode and an experimental scientist working in his laboratory , and probably many a teacher of science has wondered whether it logically follows that this objective requires the use of discovery learning . |
| 26 | And clearly such an appointment was n't going to be given . ’ |
| 27 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 28 | The ash-fall was thick enough to darken the sky , and about half a centimetre accumulated on the ground . |
| 29 | He now not only re-introduced Elphege : he brought him back into his carefully limited and graded sequence of holy days at a very high level indeed , placing him among the Festivitates quae magnifice celebrantur , on a level with the Epiphany , the Purification and Annunciation , the Ascension , the Feast of St Gregory , and about half a dozen other main feasts of the Church year . |
| 30 | Building the form takes two sheets of 18mm Sterling board and about half a day . |