Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 2 | This is the latest and most daring in a sequence of dramatic stairs designed by Jiricna . |
| 3 | The shorter and most effective from a literary standpoint survives in only one manuscript where it is attributed to Rolle . |
| 4 | The scandal represented the latest and most serious of a string of similar cases involving false deposit certificates . |
| 5 | ML 95 and Lys. xxxiii.7 ) for pre-Leuktra Sparta as a physical entity is aporthetos , unravaged , and that was true ( and most unusual for a Greek polis ) . |
| 6 | WHY are you less likely to get caught speeding in a black car and most likely in a red one ? |
| 7 | She was thin and rather tall with a very lined gentle face and hair that was white but which Alice could see had once been blonde . |
| 8 | Leicestershire , in the very middle of England , away from coasts and mountains , beyond the northernmost limits of continental influences and the fauna , denuded of ancient woodland and intensively farmed , is generally thought impoverished and rather uninteresting for a biologist . |
| 9 | She was twenty-four and rather beautiful in a pale , pensive , studiously Pre-Raphaelite way , with a glint of hennaed gold in her curly hair and large , solemn eyes . |
| 10 | She looked very positive and rather attractive in a forbidding way . |
| 11 | Market-led regeneration strategies may , in any case , necessitate rather more of a developmental and rather less of a political stance : there is the view that the renewal of London 's Docklands raised issues of national significance that could not be left solely to the boroughs concerned . |
| 12 | Its state regiments are well equipped and lavishly uniformed in a mixture of red and blue . |
| 13 | She was difficult to disguise , being tall and strikingly blonde with a face that had appeared too often in newspapers and smart magazines . |
| 14 | Partners are jointly and severally liable for a partnership 's debts , and their dealings with each other require the utmost good faith ; implicit in this is that they all know each other , including their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 15 | ‘ People do like knowing how they 're performing and so much in an insurance company was considered ‘ immeasurable ’ . |
| 16 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 17 | It is not a view which includes the recognition that educated , underemployed women are singularly lacking in personal autonomy , and so prone to a frustration which is not necessarily or primarily sexual . |
| 18 | ( During the third century they were celebrating Easter and Pentecost , which were inherited and then modified from Judaism and so dependent on a lunar year . |
| 19 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 20 | The thought of his busy mowing , so useless and so trivial as a defence against the disaster that encircled the house and their silly lives overcame her . |
| 21 | Inside our house there were stone floors , coal fires , oil lamps , but I do n't remember ever feeling any sense of cold or discomfort , except when I got chilblains — a seasonal occurrence ( and one which Dally cites , along with other circulatory disorders , as common among anorexics and perhaps indicative of a certain proneness ) . |
| 22 | The invading army was evidently homeward bound and perhaps disinclined for a renewed engagement , which may explain why Cadafael ( HB ch. 65 ) and Oethelwald ( HE 111 , 24 ) withdrew before battle was joined . |
| 23 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 24 | For instance , if you have chosen colours that are suitable for a pink picture , you should pick out all the flowers that you have in shades of pink , and perhaps white as a contrast , plus some green or grey leaves , or a combination of the two , and some small feathery pieces to soften the outline . |
| 25 | There are thousands of buildings that despite being interesting and attractive — and perhaps important on a local scale — are not ‘ listable ’ in themselves ; that is to say , they are not of sufficient architectural or historic interest to merit individual protection . |
| 26 | Nearly every house in the book built before 1650 was owned by an active Cavalier , whose fortunes dwindled in consequence , and only one by a Roundhead , the builder of Lodge Park in Gloucestershire . |
| 27 | Following the Finance Act 1986 this would be a potentially exempt transfer and only subject to a charge to inheritance tax if the husband transferor dies within seven years of the date of the transfer ( Finance Act 1986 , Sched 19 , Pt I , para 1 inserting s3(A) Inheritance Tax Act 1984 ) . |
| 28 | The largest grouse of the region , and only mistakable for an unexpectedly airborne turkey . |
| 29 | Transport organizations predict that only the three main lines to London will be left and only those with a peak service . |
| 30 | At last count the English language had ‘ 0 words ( almost all derogatory ) for a sexually promiscuous female and only 20 for a sexually promiscuous male ( most of these complimentary ) . |