Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [coord] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 . |
| 2 | Gentrification activity was indicated by a substantial reduction in properties without exclusive plumbing between 1970 and 1980 and by a disproportionate allocation of Historic Preservation Grants . |
| 3 | The money , however , always disappears — leaving the professional high and dry and minus a considerable sum of money . |
| 4 | In Kutná Hora there are several interesting churches of which the most notable is that of S. Barbara , which is large and imposing and in a fine state of repair . |
| 5 | They have proved to be adaptable to a wide variety of climates and environments , able to tolerate heat and cold and with a high resistance to disease . |
| 6 | The designs , covering many furniture types , are plain and functional or in a competent but unimaginative neo-classical manner , which seems indebted to the example of James Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | According to Yves St Laurent , ‘ the face of winter 1990 is monochrome and soft but with a prominent mouth ’ . |
| 8 | For instance , the number of working-age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 9 | The exterior is plain and undistinguished but with a tall , elegant tower . |
| 10 | Jay liked her eyebrows , straight and black but with a decided curve at the end . |
| 11 | The Cassel influence soon disappeared and by 1927 the type was large , long and heavy but with a certain finesse and nobility . |
| 12 | I went to open it , and there was Dana , travel-stained and weary but with a beaming smile on his sun-tanned face . |
| 13 | The only kind of conversation about women permitted is crude and obscene but in a strange way this is a bridge between the prisoners and the staff who share these attitudes . |
| 14 | Our dream issue would be four inches wide , perforated top and bottom and with a wee picture of Bobby Gillespie on every page Put up the price so Mark E Smith ca n't afford it The incredible rise of fame of Simon ‘ Fabulous ’ Dudfield |
| 15 | Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George ; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith ; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own — it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour , with the Liberal Party on the sideline . |
| 16 | Wednesday , the day of the funeral , was dry and bright but with a chilly breeze . |
| 17 | With his dark brown hair and expressive violet eyes , he was an incredibly handsome boy , not yet fifteen , but tall and with a broad back which was a legacy from his boyhood in the mines . |
| 18 | In the Atlantic O. dominans bears closet affinity with O. fasciculata Lyman , 1883 , found off St. Kitts , Leeward Is ( Fig. 29 ) but differs by the following characters ; the plates of the disk are much larger and fewer in number than in O. fasciculata ; the oral shield is irregular or hourglass in shape , not arrowhead shaped as in O. fasciculata , finally the shape of the tentacle scales simple and spine-like in O. dominans but leaf-like or with a broad base and an acute tip in O. fasciculata . |