Example sentences of "pair [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the incisors remained intact , but one pair of upper incisors had been broken ( Fig. 1.4A ) . |
| 2 | The old crow selected the largest one and dragged it to safety , out of the way of a pair of young birds chasing them down . |
| 3 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 4 | They had wandered into Central Park , and Sally-Anne had pretended that they were simply another happy pair of young lovers . |
| 5 | A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ . |
| 6 | A jetpack that allows our hero to fly , and a pair of bionic legs that give Steg the power to leap tall buildings with a single bound and super-slug speed-ups are scattered around . |
| 7 | The simplest type of transmission line comprises just a pair of parallel wires kept a uniform distance apart by suitably inserted insulating spacers . |
| 8 | ( 5.3 ) unc If one of a pair of parallel processes is a conditional , then the choice represented by that conditional may be performed before the parallel construct is entered , provided the choices are exhaustive ( so that the conditional can not stop the PAR being entered ) . |
| 9 | The third pair of parallel tests consisted of two written tests . |
| 10 | Tables 5.3,5.4 and 5.5 show the pass and failure rates for each pair of parallel tests and for two arbitrarily chosen pass marks , 50 per cent and 70 per cent . |
| 11 | Now he suddenly reappeared , clad in nothing but a pair of nankeen trousers , rushing down the stairs and levelling a pistol at my head ! |
| 12 | He envisaged a slight girl with a tender face and dark , tumbling hair , wearing a pair of borrowed pyjamas which came down over her hands and feet … |
| 13 | For a suggested minimum of £35 to Will Aid , they will draw up a simple will — or a pair of similar wills for couples , for £50 . |
| 14 | The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street . |
| 15 | A pair of matched bays were being led into the exercise ring by a groom , and he turned away to watch them . |
| 16 | A pair of powerful arms seized me from behind , jerking me upright and off my feet . |
| 17 | My new pair of peach-faced lovebirds produced a clutch of 10 eggs , but none of them has hatched . |
| 18 | Waterproof trousers and a pair of good boots or waders are essential too . |
| 19 | the o the old farmer used to go along with his one furrow plough , and a pair of good horses , and it was no mean feat . |
| 20 | He bought her two new gowns of a sombre colour at a shop in Guildford Street , a pair of good shoes , and a bonnet which shaded her lovely blue eyes . |
| 21 | But given a choice between , say , a 60-mm telescope and a pair of good binoculars , I would unhesitatingly prefer the binoculars . |
| 22 | The relatively restricted contrasts are invariably carried by open set elements ; the freely recurring contrasts may be carried by open set items ( as in mare : stallion ) , but the members of a pair of lexical items manifesting such a contrast frequently share the same open set element ( i.e. the root ) , the contrast being signalled by one or more closed set elements ) i.e. affixes ) : |
| 23 | He was a trim looking man in his early sixties , dressed in casual , but tasteful clothes , and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed half-glasses . |
| 24 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 25 | She snatched off a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and looked up at Maxim with myopic surprise . |
| 26 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 27 | He was an odd little man , peering anxiously up at her out of hunched shoulders through a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles , on his head an outdated tie-wig . |
| 28 | Clearing his throat noisily , Price perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose and announced he had received a letter from India . |
| 29 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 30 | And they nodded at each other , for all the world , Isobel thought , like a pair of well-fed penguins . |