Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One was longer than the other and a different , more yellowy , shade of white . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although a pleasant and a modest man , he was also a compulsive competitor — in pints , in sex , in stories , in sport , on the stage . |
| 6 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If a black and a white person mate , their children do not come out either black or white : they are intermediate . |
| 12 | No matter whether the stochastic or a deterministic form is used , the successful use of the model will depend on two factors , which are |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |