Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , as Adam said , you would actually have been shocked if the temperature had dropped or a shower of rain fallen . |
| 2 | Play rolling games : if you have n't got a ball , an orange or a roll of tape will do . |
| 3 | ‘ Is that a threat , Miss Mills , or a promise of promotion ? ’ |
| 4 | Spent , his lower body still made one last involuntary thrusting movement like a reminder or a promise of more , and then he was withdrawing , moving away from her immediately , levering himself to his feet and standing with his back to her . |
| 5 | To its cry ‘ Something must be done ’ , the question ‘ What ? ’ usually met silence or a chorus of discordant advice . |
| 6 | More than just a pastime or a pursuit of Olympic excellence performed by an elite few , the worthy aim of teaching every child to swim 25 metres by the age of 11 will soon be a part of the national curriculum . |
| 7 | The phone rings in the night , you pick it up only to hear heavy breathing , silence or a volley of screamed obscenities . |
| 8 | She explained how they used to steal food , and how hard it was when she came to the Hogans , her first job , to realise she did n't have to take any stray biscuit or a fistful of sugar and put it into her apron . |
| 9 | He clung to the thought as to a talisman , or a reliquary of supernatural power . |
| 10 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , the larger company may dispose of its shares in the market or , possibly , arrange for them to be cancelled either by a reduction of capital or a purchase of own shares . |
| 12 | This was followed by a row of cold sweets , including trifles , blancmanges , jellies , or a choice of cheeses or both for some of the younger , still-growing guests ! |
| 13 | It is verbal irony when some character comes out with a statement or a choice of words which have a meaning to those in the know , either within the text or outside it , that is significantly different or even contradictory to that which the character may be supposed to have in mind . |
| 14 | Nor is it a one-sided account of the injustices suffered by this people , or a defence of the energetic stranger . |
| 15 | I was offered a choice of steak and kidney pudding or a couple of chunks of local pig . |
| 16 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 17 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 18 | A conversation between two T-lymphocytes or a couple of my white cells at the height of that misery is easy enough to picture . |
| 19 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 20 | It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody . |
| 21 | Myth no. 3 : playing 18 holes of go If or a couple of sets of tennis at the weekend is enough to keep you fit Exercising once a week is not enough to make you fit . |
| 22 | Cover the salmon with kitchen foil and press the salmon down with a weighted board or a couple of heavy cans . |
| 23 | Erm no seriously I think it really should n't take long , you 're quite right to sort this matter out but I think three people really should go away and come back with a suggestion or a couple of suggestions . |
| 24 | Each , each customer come out and she 'd say well I 'll have er three or four lamb chops or a couple of pork chops or whatsoever and you used to cut it as you went , then , with a van yeah . |
| 25 | Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ? |
| 26 | Erm how often do you play , oh once a week or a couple of times a week , what sort of standard is it and what it 's doing is you 've got an opportunity to sound off about yourself and that 's who we are talking about is n't it ? |
| 27 | Yeah , so what I 'm doing , I 'll these , gon na make about a hundred or one bit or a couple of bits and some butterfly cakes and the cakes and plates and cling film , charge them a quid , eight for a pound |
| 28 | Everybody , now you 've also got to accept the high percentage of having nay got a clue , eh what they 're doing , even after a week or a couple of weeks and it should n't er be here , but if you get somebody , nice er Michelle or Cathy , eh , or eh Adel |
| 29 | cos they go ooh for about three seconds or a couple of minutes and they 'll forget about it |
| 30 | The process by which colleagues are kept informed may differ from what is expected of them in building up either a school development plan or a scheme of quality assurance . |