Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( That 's about two peanuts , or half an orange . ) |
| 2 | A brisk walk , say 20 minutes or half an hour , 3 times a week will do wonders for your circulation . |
| 3 | This may be every two hours , or half an hour after each meal . |
| 4 | It says it could be thirty minutes or half an hour on that one . |
| 5 | Or half an hour till half past ten |
| 6 | Short of actually some sort of war breaking out or some an incident breaking out whilst we were on the ground , I suppose they might have actually apprehended us , but otherwise I think the chances of anything happening to the people , or Ted Heath , who were out there were very , very slim . |
| 7 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 8 | The ICAEW rules do state that we should , under no various circumstances , promote or seek to promote our services in such a way or such an extent as to amount to harassment of a prospective client . |
| 9 | Too ‘ bad ’ for the council and too ‘ good ’ for the NHS is a recurrent problem , and , therefore , a range of services is needed to care for all possible problems , however unusual , complex , worrying or burdensome an individual 's difficulties may appear . |
| 10 | This is not too unscientific or random an approach , as it is often found that one can do an experiment in a defined situation and reinforce one 's findings by consulting one 's colleagues about their own experience . |
| 11 | the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age . |
| 12 | I am anxious that my grandsons , Prince William and Prince Harry , should grow up in as happy and stable an environment as possible because they represent not just my family 's future , but a continuation of a tradition which has bound the British people together for centuries . |
| 13 | And this an argument that 's often put forward by the National Farmers Union , and other agricultural lobby groups , essentially erm , er , , it 's saying to sort of er , the European Community when they 're price setting , look there 's no point in you er , reducing agricultural product prices , cos all that 's going to do is increase supply . |
| 14 | The opera is first and foremost an evocation of genius loci , and subsequently a gallery of types and humours . |
| 15 | His was the discipline and the drive of the scientist ; Lear was first and foremost an artist . |
| 16 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 17 | One very obvious but important observation is that a pub is first and foremost an interior . |
| 18 | However , it requires some skill to devise a service which is relevant to a varied congregation and yet remains first and foremost an act of worship . |
| 19 | The driving mirror is first and foremost an image : a self-reflexive representation or , in psychoanalytic terms , a narcissistic identification . |
| 20 | Most unrest at the plant takes the form of lightning stoppages of between 10 minutes and half an hour , often health and safety issues are cited as the cause or disciplinary matters . |
| 21 | To show enthusiasm for a glance with them through the pages of old photograph albums , can often give immense pleasure ; and half an hour spent like this can mean more to them than a whole evening of television , for they are warmed by memories of happier days . |
| 22 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 23 | But for all his misgivings , here he is with one of the most desirable women in France eating truffle shavings and half an hour ago they were lying on a bed together . |
| 24 | Clocksin and Moore , who performed this experiment , found that the robot could indeed learn its way around its workspace in a fairly short time ( between a quarter and half an hour ) . |
| 25 | However , it was not for me to tell him how to treat his advisers , and half an hour later three civil servants arrived with their notebooks whereupon I dictated my suggestions to them . |
| 26 | They worked from eight in the morning , till nearly eight at night , with just an hour 's dinner , and half an hour 's tea . |
| 27 | At 4 am the klaxon for reveille sounded , and half an hour later the breakfast gong . |
| 28 | After a change of costume and half an hour in the makeup chair at The Gilded Cage , she was no longer Jessica . |
| 29 | The idea was not taken up , and half an hour later Richard signed the bill and they left the Relais together . |
| 30 | Er maybe half and hour history and half an hour geography and er science er but it were all ele very elementary stuff . |