Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a pleasant and a modest man , he was also a compulsive competitor — in pints , in sex , in stories , in sport , on the stage . |
| 2 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If a black and a white person mate , their children do not come out either black or white : they are intermediate . |
| 7 | 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 . |