Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it . |
| 2 | It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude , or a loving and a permissive one . |
| 3 | send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | One was longer than the other and a different , more yellowy , shade of white . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Conversely , evidence that no more than a modest quantity of water has been lost comes from considering the fate of oxygen liberated . |
| 9 | Although a pleasant and a modest man , he was also a compulsive competitor — in pints , in sex , in stories , in sport , on the stage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state . |
| 13 | A tied and a true and a tidy wife — |
| 14 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 15 | We are now no more and no less than a medium-sized European power . |
| 16 | If a novel is no more and no less than a verbal artefact , there can be no separation of the author 's creation of a fiction of plot , character , social and moral life , from the language in which it is portrayed . |
| 17 | AFTER months of ministerial indecision , the Government 's formula for restoring confidence in Hong Kong emerged last night to a mixed response from a bitterly divided House of Commons — and no more than a guarded welcome from the colony itself . |
| 18 | If a black and a white person mate , their children do not come out either black or white : they are intermediate . |
| 19 | Other victims were an English tourist in March 1989 , an Austrian journalist in April , and an Australian and a New Zealander in December , while two West German tourists disappeared in May after being forced off a bus in the south of the country . |
| 20 | But the best that a virtuous woman can hope for is that she be reborn as a man . |
| 21 | There is some slight degree of foundation for this remark , but no more than a slight degree . |
| 22 | No matter whether the stochastic or a deterministic form is used , the successful use of the model will depend on two factors , which are |
| 23 | Hyundai claims 0–60mph in 10secs for the Cdi and a top speed of nearly 118mph — improvements of 1.1secs and 6mph over the 1.6-litre Lantra . |
| 24 | Remember that Fermi resonance is only possible when a fundamental and a second-order band have the same symmetry and are close together in energy . |
| 25 | The travellers regarded their inn , The Ship ( long eroded ) , as no more than a functional staging-post , an ill-mannered house , too , run by William Driver — an Englishman , as Boswell pointed out to Johnson with some glee . |