Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want a thin and a thick did you say , yeah ? |
| 2 | He argued that ‘ equality of opportunity ’ has a weak and a strong sense . |
| 3 | The AVHRR sensor carried by the NOAA satellites has a visible and a short-wave infrared band , and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington , DC produces global vegetation maps on a routine basis using the ratio transform outlined above . |
| 4 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 5 | my Lord my Lord I do n't understand what 's supposed to be meant by malign or bad , it 's concerned with appreciable and appreciable and er something which has an appreciable or a more audane minimize impact upon the competition if it arise erm here perhaps because it , it is er a question of fairness but not normally |
| 6 | Whether you want an active or a relaxed holiday in Bavaria , one thing does n't alter — the most breathtakingly beautiful scenery in Germany . |
| 7 | Mathematics , minimalism , and an almost Roman sense of order are the hallmarks of Ungers ' works — in 1992 at the Philomene Magers gallery he installed a horizontal and a vertical beam , made of wood and plexiglass respectively : the x and y axes of an imaginary co-ordinate system . |
| 8 | And if Jesus is consubstantial with God , the Kingdom of Heaven need not be something that will be inaugurated on earth in the immediate future , but something external — another realm , another dimension , in which one can expect a welcome and a reserved place on one 's death . |
| 9 | ‘ There was a lack of a shared view about what the health service 's purpose was , and yet without that how can you know if you 've done a good or a bad job ? |
| 10 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 11 | ‘ Why , ’ he went on , ‘ did n't I become a Sikh or a Hasidic jew ? |
| 12 | and you put the cluster of wool in it and pull it back and it 's like little bobbles of wool and er I 've got a beige and a brown I 've done it with it will look nice you know , it will come right here , it 's a beautiful rug , quite nice , so I 've been busy and I make coat hangers |
| 13 | I wonder who 's got a blue and a red ! |
| 14 | and like you 've sort of got a yellow and a green , they 've put like an olive in that , an olive colour , but I have n't got colours that I can |
| 15 | I 've got a red and a blue , I 'm sorry I have n't got yellow and green |
| 16 | When presenting a classical and a modern piece women may use a practice skirt for one selection which can be used over jeans , or another skirt . |
| 17 | This reproduction from a thirteenth century chess manual shows a Christian and a Moslem playing a game . |
| 18 | The central bank announced that a two-tier exchange rate system would be in operation as from Feb. 19 , 1990 , comprising an official and a market exchange rate . |
| 19 | This is quite possible since MI5 did not make a detectable or a sustained effort to keep a watchful eye on Ivanov 's movements . |
| 20 | Do you want a white or a red one ? |
| 21 | Within consciousness one can experience a focal and a peripheral area . |
| 22 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 23 | According to Miller ( 1956 ) , who coined the term , a single chunk may contain a small or a large amount of information . |
| 24 | So that er you get a slow or a retarded er effect or solution rather absorption . |
| 25 | Examples of the contrast most commonly given use relative clauses as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , containing a restrictive and a non-restrictive relative , respectively : ( 1 ) silk which comes from Thailand is taxed more heavily than Malaysian silk ( 2 ) silk , which is a natural fibre , incurs less tax than artificial fabrics There are , of course , certain linguistic devices in English which can help to indicate which interpretation is intended ( though surprisingly few , given that the difference in effect can sometimes be considerable ) . |
| 26 | The receipt of such a bonus has an effect far outside the regular annual rise , which again in the case of ICI is a matter of such Byzantine complexity that it is often difficult to know whether one is getting a good or a bad one ! |
| 27 | But how do we recognize a genuine or a profound understanding of society ? |
| 28 | We discuss later in the chapter ( see section 8.4 ) the kinds of factors that determine whether a speaker decides to use an active or a passive sentence and factors that determine other such decisions about sentence structure . |
| 29 | Wilde lived an anarchic and a political homosexuality simultaneously . |
| 30 | Such research can only discover whether lawyers are doing a good or a bad job in terms of common sense criteria , themselves embedded in , if not derived from , the ideology of lawyers themselves . |