Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the USA has a very much larger market in used aircraft and a constant supply of new ones , both of which act to depress prices . |
| 2 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 3 | Yet he was such a skilful flyer that to an American of the Lafayette Squadron it seemed as if a plane obeyed his thoughts rather than the controls , and at Verdun alone he shot down six German aircraft and a balloon . |
| 4 | That may be a tenable position for the Soviet Union , but not for Britain , which has committed itself repeatedly to accepting both self-determination for the German people and a re-united Germany if this is what self- determination leads to . |
| 5 | Hopeful forays onto the slopes above the town produced poor snow , wet people and a complete failure to find the mysterious Notch . |
| 6 | The upward trend in the market as a whole indicates the arrival both of products effectively exploiting the utilities of electronic media and a growing acceptance and appreciation among information users of the value of these utilities . |
| 7 | This means that the higher rents are being imposed on some of the poorest members of the community , including a high proportion of elderly and unemployed people and a preponderance of semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers . |
| 8 | A popular rendezvous and a familiar landmark with its prominent clock tower . |
| 9 | This was the real sport and the Moreton pair , fishing from their own boat ‘ Brenda Lee , ’ produced a fine performance to hook 11 different species and a £500 prize . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 11 | But the thieves had eccentric tastes — they stole two goldfish , her cascading waterfall , a stone ornamental duck and a stone toadstool — plus a bucket to take away the fish . |
| 12 | 8oz ( 200g ) tin of baked beans , eaten cold , plus 2 pieces of fresh fruit and a diet yogurt OR 2 oz ( 50g ) bread roll spread with reduced-oil salad dressing and filled with salad , 1 oz ( 25g ) ham or chicken , plus a banana |
| 13 | 6oz ( 150g ) lamb 's liver braised in onions , 2 oz ( 50g ) potatoes and unlimited vegetables , plus 8 oz ( 200g ) fresh fruit OR SPICED BEAN CASSEROLE ( see recipe , page 161 ) , plus 4oz ( 100g ) fresh fruit and a 5 oz ( 125g ) diet yogurt SUPPER 4oz ( 100g ) chicken served with a large salad and dressed with soy sauce , plus a pear and a banana OR 6oz ( 150g ) jacket potato topped with 3 oz ( 75g ) cottage cheese mixed with herbs and 2 oz ( 50g ) sweetcorn PLUS BAKED STUFFED APPLE ( see recipe , page 154 ) |
| 14 | For the main course there was pato con peras , duck with pears , and , later , fresh fruit and a caramel cream flan . |
| 15 | In a communications system , the source of infra-red radiation may be an infra-red l.e.d. or a laser . |
| 16 | ‘ Had the increase in pensions been in line with inflation in the 12 months ending April 1989 , a single person with the basic state pension would have received an additional £44.20 and a couple another £72.80 during the year , ’ said Mrs Greengross . |
| 17 | Christina asked Celia as she appeared on the terrace carrying a tray of fresh tropical fruit and a teapot . |
| 18 | Aldershot , Hampshire-based Datrontech Ltd 's new Networking Division is now shipping Kingston Communications Ltd 's new EtheRx 10Bbase-2 and KNE2100 two-in-one combination network interface board : based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc 's PCnet-AT Advanced Ethernet Controller , both boards use bus mastering direct memory access technology and support either twisted pair or a 10Base-2 coaxial connection ; the 10Base-2 board costs £145 and the combination board sells for £158 . |
| 19 | They had a soft spot for its mid- morning scene of desolation , the familiar down-and-outs warming themselves at their bonfires of pallets on the lorry park , street cleaners ineffectually sweeping piles of rotten fruit and a pecking order of scavengers collecting their portion of the spoils . |
| 20 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 21 | We had a late luncheon , cold fowl and a salad got up by Liza , walked in the Park in the afternoon , worked , and in the evening had a dish of warm milk and white bread , sprinkled with sugar , quite as Wordsworth himself might have done . |
| 22 | Like a large rufous and grey domestic fowl or a giant partridge , with whitish cheeks , and distinctive blackish striations on upper breast ; the snowcock with least white in its plumage . |
| 23 | Geographically , this may bring in the concept of relative location , for instance , the distance in travel time between the corporate headquarters and a branch factory . |
| 24 | The Centurion guarantees quicker , easier and safer lawnmowing incorporating a lightweight chassis and a height adjuster operated at the touch of a button . |
| 25 | A virulent ideological onslaught was waged against the miners by an unsympathetic media and a large cross-section of politicians . |
| 26 | I have a 4½″ Spiny Eel and a 4″ Fire Eel . |
| 27 | The syndrome of dyspraxia of deaf children comprises that the child clearly suffers from dyspraxia or apraxia with dysrhythmia or arhythmia and that the child , his memory as such being normal , shows a typical profile of a strong memory for simultaneously presented visual data and a relatively weak one for successively presented visual data . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's like grasping a slippery fish or a greasy pole . |
| 29 | These considerations may then lead to an emphasis on training in alternative journalism and to the demand for alternative media and a concomitant emphasis on media education . |
| 30 | ‘ As might be expected in an investigation involving international terrorism , the murder of 270 innocent people and a possible government cover-up , ’ he told the court , ‘ most of the individuals we contacted or who contacted us , demanded complete anonymity . |