Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun] [is] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do it when the economy is booming and affluence is an excuse to demand — and for companies to resist — more money . |
| 2 | ‘ Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 3 | Kenneth Clarke has said that nursery education is not a priority and commitment to a nursery place for every three and four-year-old is a mistake . |
| 4 | The other predicates which we use to describe the game are empty(x) which signifies that the square x is empty ; filled ( x , C ) where x is a square and C is a player ; to-move(C) which is true if it is C's turn to play ; win(C) which is short for the formula |
| 5 | I wish you well with your writing , remember talent is very useful and perseverance is a necessity . |
| 6 | The exact relationship between glagolitic and Cyrillic is a matter of dispute amongst scholars . |
| 7 | To make the numbers simple , suppose that C = 8 and K is a quarter . |
| 8 | Well Melissa 's cool and Crystal 's a bit crap and Catherine 's all right . |
| 9 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 10 | Life as ritual and art is a belief we associate very much with those ‘ long-forgotten ’ Nineties when sins were still scarlet against which Eliot professed to be reacting in 1917 when he declared that their ‘ aesthetic eccentricities may now be ignored ’ . |
| 11 | Women will continue to choose men — or men women ; each sex always believes it is the other which does the choosing — the man being a little older , a little richer , a little more decisive than the woman , for this is how the majority of the human race pairs itself off , and why the myth of female inferiority is so prevalent throughout the world — it being the direct experience of so many children in so many households that Daddy knows best and Mummy 's a fool . |