Example sentences of "a [noun] of [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little direct interchange which has occurred has been largely between compatible representatives of broadly similar organisations , e.g. Crofters ' and Farmers ' Unions , or between a variety of environmental and wildlife bodies , or among a number of local history societies . |
| 2 | I said I did n't want anything shoddy … something strong that would stand up to a bit of rough and tumble . ’ |
| 3 | Exploring unfamiliar surroundings , learning to relate to other children , letting off steam or just a bit of rough and tumble . |
| 4 | It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 5 | Just a bit of this and bit of that . |
| 6 | If you plan everything , and you provide a bit of this and bit of that , and you help the people to go with it . |
| 7 | seen like a border in perhaps like a bit of pink and bit of grey on it and it 's like sort of scalloped edging |
| 8 | But such an altered pattern of reproduction would also contribute to a reduction of maternal and child morbidity . |
| 9 | More important , natural selection provides a model of how there can be change towards a kind of fit or harmony , towards structured complexity , which is neither planned nor the result of goal-directed activity . |
| 10 | And in all of them homosexuality echoes Augustinian privation — the more pernicious for being deeply , inherently inadequate , a kind of non-being and inauthenticity : an inimical absence which provokes paranoia and on to which is projected the fear of difference inherent within sexual difference . |
| 11 | A mass of technical and manufacturing detail is present in a codified standard form . |
| 12 | The Survey Methods Centre is a division of Social and Community Planning Research ( SCPR ) . |
| 13 | You also have a concentration of retail and leisure development to the north and north east of York , in Monk Cross , your Clifton Moor and so on and so forth . |
| 14 | To gain an impression of the extent of employee theft , we will look at a study of fiddling and pilferage at a medium-sized factory-production bakery in south-east England , undertaken by Jason Ditton ( 1977 ) . |
| 15 | Lynne Reid Banks The Mystery of the Cupboard 11th June , hb £8.99 , pb £3.50 The Adventures of King Midas 11th June , hb £7.99 , pb 2.99 The Magic Hare 11th June , £2.99 P.o.s. : colour 39-copy dumpbin containing a mix of new and back list titles ; Indian style banner ; golden key brooch and tie pin for booksellers ; author poster Author tour : author appearance at the School Library Association a.g.m. , Bristol , in May ; speaker at Georges Bookshop , Bristol ; literary lunch in Chichester ; events in Worcester , London , Manchester , Bath , Chorley , Cambridge and Edinburgh Book Festival ; guest speaker at the Royal Over-Seas League 's Literary Lecture , London , in November PR : local media throughout author tour ; feature by author in Books for Keeps , The Mystery of the Cupboard reviewed on Radio 4 's Treasure Islands in June |
| 16 | A mix of black and gold separates is a perfect solution . |
| 17 | Like his other courses this one-year programme will comprise a mix of practical and business studies , though the practical side is more likely to look at machining , timber technology and forestry . |
| 18 | Winding paths lead into the surrounding woods , which in autumn are a riot of russet and gold . |
| 19 | I wonder if the wife would like a four-pack of bitter or lager for Christmas ? |
| 20 | I wonder if the wife would like a four-pack of bitter or lager for Christmas ? |
| 21 | Further problems arise from the creation of ‘ packages ’ of services or care , a corollary of contracting and tendering for services . |
| 22 | With the more extreme proposals , problems arise from the notion of ‘ packages ’ of services or care , which would be a corollary of contracting and tendering for services . |
| 23 | Diploma Plc , holding company for a portfolio of electronic and construction products businesses , reporting pre-tax profits up 225% at £8.1m , says that industry may be broadly much weaker following a long and debilitating recession , but Diploma has maintained a good level of investment in people as well as plant , and has generally considered the recent years as an opportunity . |
| 24 | Although these investigators were not specifically concerned with the notion of cerebral asymmetry of function , their finding that bilingual subjects recognised English words more accurately from the right of fixation but Yiddish words ( which are read from right-to-left ) more accurately from the left of fixation ( see also Orbach , 1967 ) sparked off a number of experiments designed to uncover the relationship between visual field asymmetry and a range of procedural and subject variables . |
| 25 | The city was he believed , rightly enough , ‘ fairly representative of the conditions existing in many if not most of our provincial towns ’ , providing a range of industrial and service employment with average pay and employment levels . |
| 26 | Moreover , the problem was not confined to one city ( London ) , it was an issue for the whole country : Belfast , Clydeside , Merseyside and a range of industrial and port areas , and city centres as at Sheffield , Coventry , Plymouth , Hull , Bristol and certain cathedral cities . |
| 27 | Accordingly , the first stage of the study is to measure the competitive edge of British products in a range of industrial and consumer goods markets , and see how these can change as designs changes . |
| 28 | Soon he began manufacturing a range of agricultural and dairy equipment , much of which was exported . |
| 29 | The system of analysing common conflicts that the Grants learnt can be applied to a range of disciplinary and family problems . |
| 30 | To take someone well-known , Claire Rayner has written a host of very successful novels as well as a range of medical and home health books , but she 's known best for her work as an agony aunt in newspapers , magazines and on television . |