Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bad news is that the eight-way — and seven-way — machines will not be single-image systems but two fours — or a four and a three — tied together in an MP configuration , so that software has to be loaded on each side . |
| 2 | So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it . |
| 3 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 4 | But the negative motive is not the whole of it ; Athens was anxious about her own supplies of grain in the mid-fifth century , and benefited in 445/4 from a massive gift of corn — 30,000 medimnoi , or a million and a half daily rations — from an Egyptian prince ‘ Psammetichos ’ ( Philochorus F 119 = Fornara 86 ) . |
| 5 | It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude , or a loving and a permissive one . |
| 6 | Or a three or a six . |
| 7 | send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or |
| 8 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or ’ Telephone means the same public system as at the alternative point at 2 ante . |
| 9 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character , or ’ This point is proved as the last point with the recipient explaining the indecent , obscene or menacing nature of the call . |
| 10 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 11 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 12 | One was longer than the other and a different , more yellowy , shade of white . |
| 13 | However , today the standard colour is black-and-white pied and indeed many have Friesian blood but are much smaller , shorter and more compact than the Friesian and a great deal hardier . |
| 14 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 15 | Conversely , evidence that no more than a modest quantity of water has been lost comes from considering the fate of oxygen liberated . |
| 16 | This deep interest was amply reflected in the fact that no fewer than a dozen Argentine railway companies were British-owned . |
| 17 | Although a pleasant and a modest man , he was also a compulsive competitor — in pints , in sex , in stories , in sport , on the stage . |
| 18 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 19 | More than a million and a half Palestinians live in the occupied territories , their treatment prompted repeated accusations by western governments as well as those in the Middle East , that Israel 's crackdown has been too harsh , at times undisciplined ; one image of violence by Israeli forces aroused world-wide condemnation . |
| 20 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 21 | I have already suggested ( p. 93 ) that tone and clicker ( at least when presented simultaneously ) might interact perceptually in a way that an auditory and a visual stimulus do not . |
| 22 | The widely-held fears stem from the reasonable assumption that an independent or a devolved Scotland would be incapable of existing without considerable handouts from Whitehall and would have an administration with more than a left-wing tinge . |
| 23 | We believe that the migration rates that should be used should be a three year average rather than an eight or a ten year average . |
| 24 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 25 | What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state . |
| 26 | An impending thirtieth birthday and a two and a half year-old daughter called Sophie have n't turned her fashion tastes one whit . |
| 27 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 28 | A tied and a true and a tidy wife — |
| 29 | The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at . |
| 30 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |