Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 2 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 3 | Shares of the reporting entity are to be classified as equity or non-equity and an analysis is to be presented of shareholders ' funds between the amounts attributable to equity and non-equity shares . |
| 4 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 5 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 6 | I drove home in my Fiasco , which , apart from the faulty cooling system , the recurring malfunction with the brakes and power-steering and a tendency to list violently to the left , seems to be running fairly reliably at present . |
| 7 | And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers . |
| 8 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 9 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |
| 10 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 11 | Indonesia also has a large electrification programme underway involving hydro-electric and thermal power station projects but these and a number of large oil and petrochemical projects are threatened by balance of payments problems . |
| 12 | National Certificate Modules are delivered in schools , further education colleges and other approved centres throughout Scotland and because they are separate units in their own right , modules can be taken in a variety of ways to accommodate the circumstances of the individual — full-time , part-time , distance or open-learning or a combination of these . |
| 13 | Why not invest in a few Units — new interchangeable separates in black , white , navy and red and a variety of shapes ? |
| 14 | And I 've seen when getting corn er just right er dressed for the mill , I 've seen us er doing with a spade and that and a tub . |
| 15 | Brannen , at 6ft 2 ins and 13 and a half stone , is now every inch a serious international pedigree athlete . |
| 16 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 17 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |
| 18 | A combination of absentees and rejections left only 99 of the 162 entries catalogued on offer and all but a handful sold as the packed ringside of buyers competed for the animals remaining in the sale . |
| 19 | More corrugated iron and concrete and an army sign : ‘ We apologize for the delay Please do not blame us Blame the Terrorists ’ , with another smaller one beside it : ‘ Please take your little home with you ’ . |
| 20 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 21 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 22 | When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them . |
| 23 | From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society . |
| 24 | Very commonplace today go in to Thomas Cook 's there 'll be a video running continually with one destination or another or an activity holiday etcetera . |
| 25 | There is TV and audio and a heap of magazines . |
| 26 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |