Example sentences of "[adj] and a [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth and I turned on him severely , and told him that someone who was both old and a distinguished writer was not to be bothered with such things . |
| 2 | The spring sunshine was almost warm and a soft breeze was blowing in from the sea . |
| 3 | Changes in the grade structures following re-organisation of the general service had repercussions on crewing , some of our friends at HQ had moved on or retired and a harder line was being taken by their replacements towards our hitherto fairly flexible conditions of service . |
| 4 | A British orderly and a Polish civilian were pumping filth from one of the lavatories into a long cylindrical cart . |
| 5 | At the time of writing the first cycle of review and reporting by Oxfordshire 's schools is now virtually complete and a second cycle is planned . |
| 6 | I have already disputed Simmonds 's account of interpretation based on authorial intention ( see Chapter 2 ) , but his account of the sociology of knowledge both as a hermeneutic and a critical theory is most interesting . |
| 7 | A trial pack comprising the three primary colours plus black , white and a colourless bar are available in Slim and Original size . |
| 8 | The research is exploratory and a causal model is adopted on the assumption that the introduction of computers as an aid to design would change the job content of the technician . |
| 9 | If we add our weathercock effect on to this , the tail rotor is now too effective and a trim change is required ( Fig.5.9 ) . |
| 10 | When deadlines are deadly and a male editor is breathing fire and brimstone down the phone , I go all giggly and silly-little-me-late-again-ish . |
| 11 | There was a slight flurry of falling snow , but the weather was good and a wintry moon was trying to break through the clouds . |
| 12 | However , casual or conspired encounters with the public are infrequent and a primary duty is to deliver court summonses and warrants . |
| 13 | This document , published in ‘ Briefing ’ in January , is quite long and a simplified text is being published in ‘ Briefing ’ in February . |
| 14 | With domestic cats it means that , every so often , the old ‘ standby ’ diet suddenly becomes unattractive and a brief change is required . |
| 15 | For the hybrid motor , or any type of motor incorporating a permanent-magnet , there are only two phases , but the current polarity is important and a bipolar drive is required to give bidirectional phase currents . |
| 16 | It is heavy and a constant supply is useful , so positioning a settlement near a constant source is desirable . |
| 17 | All financial planning advice is totally independent and a follow-up service is available on request . |
| 18 | Context sensitive help is also available and a full manual is provided on disk . |
| 19 | The only variable that they can revise directly in either an upward and a downward direction is the money wage rate , but revisions of the money wage rate will have no direct effect on the real wage rate owing to the sympathetic variations in the general level of prices that they would provoke . |
| 20 | But if this motion is successful and a working party is established , one of the conclusions that we might reach is that General Secretaries should keep their sticky fingers off shops steward 's commissions . |
| 21 | The packet had been ripped open and a small bite was missing from one corner . |
| 22 | Troops were sent to the area , but claims by Doe that the situation had been brought under control proved premature and a dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on the region in early January . |
| 23 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc and a still-unidentified partner are developing a five-member Pentium-based symmetric multiprocessor line that Sequent will reportedly offer as a software development , application server and database platform for Windows NT . |
| 24 | A major issue in the decision between a generative and a probabilistic system is the robustness of the system . |
| 25 | That emotions have both a positive and a negative role is an idea that few would dispute . |
| 26 | She was apyrexial and a maculopapular rash was present on her arms . |
| 27 | The tailwheel was made to be retractable and a third seat was added along with a gun position . |