Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] and a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 2 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |
| 3 | Gluing is not so much a skilled job as a responsible one and a large number of mistakes are available to a determined man , all of which can have dangerous results . |
| 4 | The Nikolaikirche , with 2,000 seats , was full one and a half hours before the church meeting began . |
| 5 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 6 | Compassion for the victims of this sick Tory society compassion for the millions of people who have no work compassion for the victims of racists and racisms compassion for the victims of the public service cuts , whether it be the miserable one and a half percent pay offers compulsory competitive tendering job cuts , low pay , the pensioners , the elderly , the sick , the child , the list is never ending . |
| 7 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 8 | In a statement issued in Bonn , he stressed ‘ the importance that Western countries lend to the continuation of the reform process that President Yeltsin has represented for the past one and a half years ’ . |
| 9 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |