Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | material — the exact meaning of this will depend upon the context , but it suggests something that is not trivial or insubstantial and in a context where quantification is appropriate the starting point is , as a rule , taken to be around 5% of the price ; |
| 2 | As the depth is obviously restricted this form of extraction would take place over a wider area than normal but in a district like this where the overburden is thin this is no real hardship . |
| 3 | Er he wants two two or three coaches for this and that and for a special to Liverpool you see , he 'd need it later that afternoon . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 5 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 6 | It comes in sizes S , M , L and XL and at a cost of just £6.75 is an affordable way to thrust yourself into the very forefront of the 1990's fashion ! |
| 7 | The overall look is comfortable and traditional but with a light , airy quality . |
| 8 | The report explains that because these farms are ‘ deemed too small to appear in the National Farm Business survey ’ , the government funded research into a sample of 500 holding sin 1986 and 1987 and into a sample of 1000 others between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 9 | If you continue deferment , which as a woman you can do until 65 and as a man until 70 , you will earn what are known as ‘ increments ’ and your pension will be bigger when you receive it . |
| 10 | Briefly , this meant the ability to ‘ take his work and leave it ’ : to start and finish the ploughing ; that is , to pen and shut up a furrow and leave every stetch , or parcel of furrows , straight and level and without a wrinkle to mar the whole length of it . |
| 11 | The offices of the CDHES were twice raided and bombed and as a consequence , in 1981 , Marianella decided to move the main offices of the CDHES to Mexico City . |
| 12 | The boy was ragged and dirty and for a moment he stood transfixed staring at Hari and Will as though he could n't believe his eyes . |
| 13 | Over one-half of the houses in rural districts of England are owned by their occupiers , whether outright or on a mortgage . |
| 14 | The difference with New Historicism is in a refusal to see the incident or localised concern as symbolic or as a metaphor for larger cultural significances . |
| 15 | Theorizing and debate about law-breaking and law enforcement have been premised on a model of the criminal actor as individual and on a conception of enforcement as practised by a uniformed and public police . |
| 16 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 17 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , stated that she was " deeply disturbed " by the decision , which was denounced by US human rights groups as racist and as a violation of national and international law . |
| 18 | The unpulsed sounds seem to relate to times of heightened excitement , such as during feeding , when stranded or in a state of distress or alarm , or between mother and newborn calf . |
| 19 | The first two are represented in Attaingnant 's collections — Clemens , it is true , by an anonymous and doubtfully authentic piece — as early as 1529 and by a trickle of songs during the next decade . |
| 20 | Subject to paragraph 2 , it is applicable not only to ‘ information ’ or ‘ ideas ’ that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference , but also to those that offend , shock or disturb . |