Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They need to have somebody that 's a bit liberal and a bit open and that wo n't be available under a Conservative government will it ? |
| 2 | Boy thirteen and a girl eleven . |
| 3 | The System 15000 , due for delivery by the end of the year , will sell at around £10,000 more than a base 10000 system . |
| 4 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 5 | erm As he will obviously tomorrow as well , but erm he was a bit tense and a bit nervous before , but erm I 'm sure that erm he 'll be absolutely delighted with this result . |
| 6 | yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller |
| 7 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |
| 8 | There might too be a difference between a town drunk and a country drunk . |
| 9 | She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest . |
| 10 | Earlier this year , after five years of agonising , it published the LA Plan , a document 5,500 pages long and a yard thick . |
| 11 | Hampton M. Vins PS I hope you will charge your lowest price for it , and if you please not to send a duffil one , but a cloth one , full yard long , fail not on Wednesday , please to send it by Mr. Field the Waterman , who comes to the Beehive , at Queenhithe , pray do n't send a duffil one but a cloth one . |
| 12 | Where a plaintiff claims the delivery of goods let under a hire-purchase agreement to a person other than a body corporate , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it , with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods claimed ; ( 6 ) the total price of the goods ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the unpaid balance of the total price ; ( 9 ) whether a default notice or a notice under s 76(1) or s 98(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 has been served on the debtor and if it has , the date on which and the manner in which it was so served ; ( 10 ) the date when the right to demand delivery of the goods accrued ; ( 11 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as an alternative to the delivery of the goods ; and ( 12 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed in addition to the delivery of the goods or any claim under sub-paragraph ( 10 ) , stating the cause of action in respect of which each such claim is made . |
| 13 | as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one |
| 14 | The proprietor , Gordon McLeod-Crossley believed the burglars knew exactly what they were looking for when they took a BSA .22 and a Rellum .22 . |
| 15 | A fully-configured entry level 135-10 , capable of supporting 100 users , costs about £100,000 ; there are two more uniprocessors , the 175-10 and 185-10 , two duals , the 195-20 and 235-30 , a three-CPU 275-30 and a top-of-the-line four processor 345-40 , rated at 11.9 MIPS , with 64Mb to 256Mb memory at from £500,000 . |
| 16 | So I mean you do n't want to go di di down to a size eight or a size ten , cos I think you 'd feel |
| 17 | Now that 's a plus six and a plus four what 's the answer ? |
| 18 | Check the facts ; the RS Carrera costs £61,100 , £15,000 more than a stock 911 Carrera 2 . |
| 19 | ‘ Why ca n't they get models who are size 14 and a bit podgy ? ’ she enquires . |
| 20 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 21 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 22 | You 've got a minus six and a minus four . |
| 23 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 24 | Even rarer treasures , such as a pair of early A- and B-model Mustangs , a Commonwealth Boomerang , Hawker Tempest II and a SPAD VII were in Weeks ' storage and restoration facility at Tamiami , which was also destroyed . |
| 25 | No , you got a minus one and a minus four they 're both the same signs , cos it 's minus one , minus four they 're both the same signs so you put them together four and one make ? |
| 26 | It sounds a lot louder and a lot prettier . |
| 27 | You erm you 're , you 're a bit uncertain and a bit nervous all the way through it but I think it was , it was basically because you |
| 28 | Or what 's the difference in this activity for a level two or a level three child ? |
| 29 | And what are the constraints on possible perceptions : for instance , is it in principle possible that a creature able to perceive the motion of an individual object might be able to perceive the object 's shape ? |
| 30 | I am 5′ 1″ tall and a size 10–12 , but only take size 2½–3 in shoes . |