Example sentences of "an [adj] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She stamped on my right big toe , forcing me to produce an involuntary and appallingly undignified yelp . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is better not to extend what was , after all , an accidental and purely professional relationship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As well as being a tactless comment , it is an exaggerated and often untrue one . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would be an extensive and sometimes brutal business , but the Society was the equal of the challenge . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Do n't think that because I 'm learning an absorbing and rather difficult trade I have no thoughts to spare for you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Certainly an admirable and very brave German . |
| 17 | The Conservative Government claimed that these bodies were an unnecessary and highly expensive tier of administration . |
| 18 | Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems . |
| 19 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 20 | Although in both books Hilton never loses sight of the spirituality possible for actives each book is addressed to a different audience : Scale 1 to an enclosed and apparently illiterate anchoress " redyng of holy writt may < wel vse " ( 15.288a. – 88 ) ; while Scale 2 seems more generally addressed to a wider and not necessarily wholly contemplative audience . |
| 21 | Finally Ms Cann proposed an unorthodox and possibly unique solution : publication rights as part of merchandising would be retained by the publishers jointly , to be pooled and then shared out in the most appropriate way . |
| 22 | As the unashamedly extravagant Continental R in the most outrageous shade of red majestically revolved on the stand to an upbeat and immensely loud recording of ‘ Land Of Hope And Glory ’ the last thing on anyone 's mind was how the CFCs in the air conditioning were going to rip the ozone to pieces . |
| 23 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 24 | In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach , you will be in an old and vastly different world . |
| 25 | It helps if you can bring yourself to take a very positive line of thinking about each problem as it comes along , being as practical and objective as possible , for sometimes the limitations of home life with an old and possibly infirm parent may seem to close round you like a prison . |
| 26 | The other three looked at her as though she had spoken in an old and now unknown language . |
| 27 | Without proper and relevant performance data about how a school is performing , it is not possible for parents to make an informed and therefore correct choice about a school . |
| 28 | Others suggested that their schools had an improved and more balanced curriculum , as a result of much more careful planning and prioritising , something which they felt could not have been achieved without devolution . |
| 29 | To a certain extent the lead adviser 's role is simply an extended and more detailed deal management role . |
| 30 | What we need is to get the best of both worlds , an enhanced and more competent community providing care , support and help to individuals efficiently but without dumping disadvantaged people onto unsupported relatives . |