Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] or a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or a coronary is normal , and I think again , that stops people for asking for help because the they 're not sure whether it 's a depressed mood or an illness . |
| 2 | If the houses are bought by the council then the occupants remain secure tenants , but if a private landlord or a housing association becomes the new owner then occupants become assured tenants . |
| 3 | You can apply whether you are a tenant of a local authority , a new town development corporation , a private landlord or a housing association , or even if you live in a hostel . |
| 4 | Well , the war came , and Dick turned into a night person , got a job as a private cop or a night editor or something . |
| 5 | All the comfortable rooms have a private bath or a shower/wc . |
| 6 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 7 | ( No. 2 ) [ 1990 ] 2 Lloyds Rep. 526 Hirst l-held that it was a dear benefit or an avoidance of a disbenefit to the defendants that the plaintiffs agreed to take delivery of a ship on the contract date since — |
| 8 | Flashing that kind of money in this kind of joint could lead to either of two things , a uniformed policeman or a chippie . |
| 9 | On this occasion he was dealt with by the juvenile court for an offence of being a passenger in a stolen car or a car taken without authority and he received a conditional discharge . |
| 10 | Apart from such Helplines , David Wilson also offered to provide advice on situations CE Staff may come across involving adults in direct touch with children and young people where there is the slightest concern about a specific group or an individual in a group with whom staff work . |
| 11 | For example , can you add on a hard disk , a high-resolution screen or a telex unit ? |
| 12 | Barron and Baron ( 1977 ) had children of a variety of ages compare a word with a picture to make either a rhyming decision or a meaning decision . |
| 13 | It is in general sufficient that the power is exercised by a junior minister or an official on his behalf . |
| 14 | The same pH may be given by a very small quantity of a strong acid or by a much larger quantity of a weak acid or a mixture of such an acid with its salts . |
| 15 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 16 | If a sole trader or a partnership goes bankrupt the sole trader or partners respectively are fully liable for the debts of the business . |
| 17 | Is this a complete discourse or an extract ? |
| 18 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 19 | Exploiting a technical lead or a brand name are common spurs to creating an internal market . |
| 20 | Fundamentalism at its simplest is the reduction of a faith , a political creed or a way of life to an extreme and recognizable core which dominates that faith . |
| 21 | ’ One did not have to be a political commentator or a student of politics to know that Hitler was not just a psychopath . |
| 22 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 23 | In August 1985 the Supreme Council of the Afghan mujahidin Alliance , based in Peshawar , reiterated that its goal was the establishment of an independent Islamic state and declared that no power had the right to impose a political solution or a leadership on Afghanistan that did not satisfy the resistance fronts . |
| 24 | You could just drift and hang out and see what happened , which suited me fine , even more than being a Customs Officer or a professional footballer or a guitarist . |
| 25 | The group may provide guidelines for behaviour such as a professional ethic or a code of conduct . |
| 26 | So we begin to put pressure on the child , and the child reacts because he ca n't appreciate what we 're trying to get across to him , and so we get a sort of stalemate situation , where the teacher , be it a professional teacher or a parent , is pressurizing the child to understand something which appears quite simplistic , and the child is responding quite deadly , because he can not focus , he can not conceptualize , what is to us a very simple concept . |
| 27 | ‘ Other financial reporting work ’ is not defined by the ICAEW but they give some guidance by stating that other financial reporting assignments include assignments requiring a professional opinion or a reporting assignment where a document has been prepared in contemplation that a third party may rely on it . |
| 28 | A church with a static membership may equally describe a stable community or a church in rapid transition which is just managing to hold its own . |
| 29 | Concept keyboards allow areas of an overlay , which could for example be a historical map or a picture , to be touched by the pupil , calling up associated sub-screens of data or questions about the feature in question . |
| 30 | However , in being always revisable in the light of new information the judgement still remains on a par with acceptance of a historical fact or a law of nature , which likewise never escape the possibility of being discredited by new evidence . |