Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Good Templars offered their predominantly working- and lower-middle-class membership a sense of community and purpose as temperance militants committed to prohibition by direct local veto .
2 At 9.55 he presented himself at the door of the tall and impassive apartment-house a block back from Great Portland Street in the Marble Arch district .
3 By this Maine meant that in archaic and primitive society a man 's rights and duties were rigidly determined by his position at birth in a given family or clan .
4 The long , drawn out battle between capitalism and Socialism is in the short and medium term a battle for influence and opinion .
5 There are still those who believe art is a luxury and medical care a necessity .
6 Children 's enthusiastic response to the irresistible Sesame Street Muppets , combined with the sound methodological principles behind the series , make this flexible and comprehensive course a pleasure to teach .
7 It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production .
8 Should it not be in a vital and vivid way a recital and rehearsal of God 's plan of salvation ?
9 Spray-wipe techniques with a solvent hard surface cleaner or solvent degreaser can be used on light soiling but for moderate or heavy soiling a brush applied alkali degreaser is more suitable .
10 See , now I deliberately sit , when I 'm out in a Land Rover , with one arm up a bit higher than the other and one leg a bit higher .
11 The studies used as a basis for judgement are generally lacking in control because of the finality of educational decision making and placement ( in the sense that we can not return the child to an original or alternative placement a year later and be able to start from the same point again ) .
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