Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose from solid woods and a range of finishes . |
| 2 | We can conclude therefore that both domain-specific collocations and a general collocation dictionary extracted from the LOB corpus make a significant contribution to the recognition process . |
| 3 | Fabric boots had already made a comeback in quantity , encouraged by several years of hot , dry summers and a wider market . |
| 4 | The Director , Joe Shaw from the University of Toronto and his team have also located Minoan houses and a later Greek Sanctuary . |
| 5 | The Fennell inquiry said London Underground senior management had ‘ narrow horizons and a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency ’ , being unwilling to take outside advice . |
| 6 | Don 's neglect your nails , take the Elegant Touch Travel Manicure Kit ( £9.95 ) , it contains eight products and a guide to achieving three different manicure effects |
| 7 | From the Villa Elena you can see no fewer than eleven extinct volcanos and a distant view of the sea , only slightly marred by smoke belching from an industrial plant two miles away . |
| 8 | Overall , the effect of low taxes and a free market has been to make Britain far more enterprising . |
| 9 | Until 1960 des Forges and Harber recorded eight cases and a pair may have bred in 1973 . |
| 10 | If I had written the script myself it could not have turned out better : two European titles and a British record . |
| 11 | By the same token , any discourse which seems to offer a synthesis between professional values and a sense of national character and moral worthiness , while also overlooking inhumane specialist tendencies and threats of moral ambiguity , is treated favourably in the Review . |
| 12 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 13 | The uniformed cops and a couple of detectives were watching their superiors slug it out . |
| 14 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 15 | distinctions should be drawn between sole practitioners working on their own at home and those with assistant solicitors and a number of branch offices ; |
| 16 | He admitted that he had learnt of the Iran-contra operation in mid-1986 and had passed the information to his superiors , including Clair C. George , the agency 's deputy director for covert operations and a subordinate to Gates . |
| 17 | The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw the continuation of trends already clearly visible — a consolidation of the network of diplomatic links between the European states and a further growth and elaboration of foreign offices . |
| 18 | Built among the woods are some attractive private houses and a 19C hospital beneath which is the elegant mass of the Lobkovic Palace , now the German Embassy . |
| 19 | If you put the N1 cam in the centre of the machine , you will get four complete repeats and a quarter repeat at each edge ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 20 | If you put the N1 cam half-a-repeat to the left of centre on the machine , in this case between needles 12 and 13 on the left of centre , you 'll get three complete repeats and a three-quarter repeat at each edge ( Fig 3. ) , again rather messy when seamed . |
| 21 | However , on the first piece of knitting you could position the N1 cam to give you four complete repeats and a half-repeat at the right of the knitting , that is put the Na cam between needles 6 and 7 on the left of centre ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 22 | Then on the second piece arrange the pattern so that you get four complete repeats and a half-pattern at the left , that is the N1 cam goes between needles 6 and 7 on the right of the machine ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 23 | His working clothes were bottle-green cords and a russet sweater worn over an open check shirt . |
| 24 | Despite the claims of its opponents that SWAPO was motivated by ideological extremism , the pragmatism it showed on coming to power , exemplified by the inclusion of non-SWAPO members in the government ( notably the white Finance Minister , Otto Herrigel ) was reflected in cautious economic policies and a policy of national reconciliation . |
| 25 | The reason we want regionalisation is that we are the only country within the European Community as it now stands , bar Luxembourg and Ireland , not to have regional Government , regional co-ordination of our economic policies and a proper role for the regions to link across Europe . |
| 26 | Also in ITV 's winter package of programmes announced yesterday include Jilly Cooper 's new lust-in-the-saddle mini-series Riders and a controversial documentary series The Good Sex Guide hosted by Making Out star Margi Clarke . |
| 27 | Within a providential framework , her writings reveal staunch Royalist views and a distinctly Anglican Restoration piety expressed through the set forms of the Common Prayer Book and the regular orderly celebration of the sacraments . |
| 28 | This really is the holiday of a lifetime — the excitement of California 's most famous , fabulous cities and a week — or two — of relaxation on some of the most wonderful beaches in the world . |
| 29 | After winning orders on April 19 to launch three further INTELSAT communications satellites between 1992 and 1994 ( with an option to launch four new generation Intelsat VII satellites ) , Arianespace ( the ESA launch company ) commanded more than half of the international commercial launch market , with 71 outstanding contracts and a backlog of 35 satellites ( worth an estimated total of $2,350 million ) still to launch . |
| 30 | Arrange definite times and a workable routine . |