Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 2 | He was of a kind Creggan did not recognize , with white head plumage that ran magnificently down his neck , and wing feathers of a deep and rich brown and a black-yellow beak . |
| 3 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 4 | A British orderly and a Polish civilian were pumping filth from one of the lavatories into a long cylindrical cart . |
| 5 | The key advantages were a very comfortable boot , with a grippy rubber sole and a dramatic reduction of the weight of boot and binding combined . |
| 6 | There is some anecdotal and a little firm evidence that dual-subject degrees are less well regarded by some employers ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 7 | It 's hoped to attract a top professional and a very big money tournament . |
| 8 | The leader of the clan was Erica , half German and a dedicated do-gooder who always greeted Jane with an unnerving ‘ How are you , Jane ? ’ delivered with a look of such worried concern that Jane felt there ought , or must , be something wrong with her . |
| 9 | Tonight winds will be calm inland but a light southerly breeze over the Clyde estuary and the Argyll coast will keep temperatures there around five celsius , that 's forty one fahrenheit . |
| 10 | Q The natural colour of my hair is between a light brown and a dark brown . |
| 11 | In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly . |
| 12 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 13 | Unlike most of what was on the menu , two wines were actually available , a semi-sweet white and a semi-sweet red . |
| 14 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 15 | It would not matter that the resident were a foreign national or a foreign company , so long as they were resident , were located in the UK and the transaction were in sterling , it would constitute domestic banking . |
| 16 | Pure beef cattle are rare : there is a handful of Aberdeen Angus , about 2,000 Hereford , 3,000 Charolais , 800 Simmental and a few hundred Limousin , Scottish Highland and Blonde d'Aquitaine . |
| 17 | As a result of restricting our study to non-variceal bleeding and a high referral rate from other hospitals there is a seemingly high incidence of Dieulafoy 's lesion in our patients . |
| 18 | As Roth ( 1974 ) points out , the notion that only professions have subcultures is negated by the ‘ distinct and pervasive patterns of occupational life ’ found amongst dockers , seamen , miners , etc. ; prostitutes also claim that their service is a social good and a community service ; a lack of demarcation of work and leisure is equally true of policemen as of dockers ; and so on . |
| 19 | He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up . |
| 20 | Intending participants were asked to provide either an extended abstract or a position paper for the workshop , and a number of these were selected for presentation . |
| 21 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 22 | Other travellers thought he was half mad or a man who could not forget some terrible crime . |
| 23 | Now you have a superb pork roast with crunchy crackling and a cold joint which will not crumble when carved ( the normal problem with pork on a buffet ) , as the moisture has been retained in the meat . |
| 24 | From his learning experiences at this time Horton moved to an interest in the Danish idea of Folk Schools which were based on non-formal , largely oral , methods of learning , and which embraced both contemporary political and a cultural side to the education . |
| 25 | It 's quite a strange thing to paint on because it 's a very absorbent surface and what happens if you wa , those of you who want subtle colours , well that 's fine cos you get very subtle colours if you want deep colours like black dark brown or a bright colour like bright red berries on the holly then we have to put varnish on alright ? |
| 26 | The only blooms were a few early meadow-sweet and a patch of pink butterbur . |
| 27 | You can use it for elaborate and complicated patterns but its quite beautiful just simply knitted for a velvet-like jacket or sweater — tremendously rich in simple black or a deep colour . |
| 28 | Anyone with a suspected heart condition or serious bleeding or a major fracture or head injury comes first , though , and every time an ambulance brings someone , they get seen immediately in the trolley area . ’ |
| 29 | Second division leaders De Vere ( Kevin Ford ) won 1-0 at Conlons Newsagents , Albion forfeited their 100 per cent record in a 3-3 draw with Doric Celtic and a second half goal from Paul Stevens gained Fitness Connection a 1-0 win over Alex . |
| 30 | Conditions provided plenty of drama on the reach out of the Crouch , with a cold and vicious south-westerly and a lumpy sea which spread-eagled the unwary in broaches both to windward and to leeward , and a variety of spectacular gybes and blow-outs . |