Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can apply only where the expression of the legislative intention is genuinely ambiguous or obscure or where a literal or prima facie construction leads to a manifest absurdity and where the difficulty can be resolved by a clear statement directed to the matter in issue . |
| 2 | To the west was the junction , where a thousand or more trucks were marshalled daily and where the cattle docks lay , and the machinery supplying the motive power for the hydraulic cranes , capstans , and traversers . |
| 3 | 16–9 The steamer " Maggie " brought a quantity of dynamite for use at the Ballygrant lead mines , where a rich and thick lode had been found on the farm of Finlaggan . |
| 4 | THE Institute 's attractions included a billiard room and a bathroom where a hot or cold shower cost 4d , and quickly proved so popular the building was overwhelmed . |
| 5 | It is often necessary where a distinctive and valuable sound made by an instrument or small group of voices can not be heard over the singing of a congregation . |
| 6 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 7 | Both replication and review can be carried out only where a full and detailed record of the original experiment is provided . |
| 8 | Where a relative or friend of a person in custody inquires as to his whereabouts , that person should normally be told unless the detainee objects or unless any of the factors , noted above , justifying delay , apply . |
| 9 | Where a false or misleading statement is made in the course of an estate agency business or a property development business , otherwise in providing conveyancing services , the person by whom the business is carried on shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 10 | But in so far as his criticism is based on the right to freedom of expression and its particular relevance where a local or central government authority is concerned , I consider that aspect in the next section of this judgment . |
| 11 | Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin . |
| 12 | Where a light but well-defined bass is required , the double basses pizzicati might double the bassoons playing legato . |
| 13 | With a shrug of her shoulders , Charlotte rose and accompanied Ursula out through the kitchen and into the garden , where a calm and picturesque evening was spreading long shadows and rectangles of gold across the lawn . |
| 14 | The bad news is that the eight-way — and seven-way — machines will not be single-image systems but two fours — or a four and a three — tied together in an MP configuration , so that software has to be loaded on each side . |
| 15 | Skinner 's notes to the final disc in the Christchurch recordings of the Byrd masses skate over the exact reasons for this change of pitch and , although I would agree that the brighter sound of trebles has the greater immediate impact than men 's voices alone , it could be argued that if this Mass was ever used , it would most likely have been performed by solo voices or a small and musically skinned ensemble gathered to celebrate a recusant Roman service , probably without the participation of boys . |
| 16 | So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it . |
| 17 | His ex-girlfriend was no more of a cook or a home-maker than he was . |
| 18 | Should apparent fragmentation get out of hand , control over policy will be overtly centralized , or a new but equally fraudulent decentralization of state organizations will be devised . |
| 19 | A new form of treatment , or a new and more enthusiastic doctor , may act as a morale-booster which has a beneficial effect on the immune system — the sort of effect that the psychoneuroimmunologists are currently studying . |
| 20 | The result is that often illnesses are considered to be purely physical when in fact they have an emotional trigger , as in the case of the lady who developed rheumatoid arthritis after her visit to Flanders , or a mental or possibly even spiritual precipitating factor . |
| 21 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 22 | In practice , the result might well have been either a collapse of the new procedure or a perfunctory and rapid processing which would deny the public participation which Dobry wished to increase . |
| 23 | For example , a highly motivating task , or a familiar and easily recognised context , might prompt a ‘ common sense ’ , pragmatic solution ; a mathematical context might stimulate recall of a standard procedure , and a threatening context might be avoided . |
| 24 | Whether it was a scent , or a visual or some other aspect of sensory perception . |
| 25 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 26 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |
| 27 | Yes , how do you decide on a hundred and three or a hundred or four for allocation ? |
| 28 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 29 | Yeah , or a hundred and thirty five percent as you said . |
| 30 | Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres . |