Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 2 | In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly . |
| 3 | As Roth ( 1974 ) points out , the notion that only professions have subcultures is negated by the ‘ distinct and pervasive patterns of occupational life ’ found amongst dockers , seamen , miners , etc. ; prostitutes also claim that their service is a social good and a community service ; a lack of demarcation of work and leisure is equally true of policemen as of dockers ; and so on . |
| 4 | The only blooms were a few early meadow-sweet and a patch of pink butterbur . |
| 5 | The car 's number in gold shaded black and a maker 's transfer appeared in the left hand upper panel of the bulkhead balanced by a glass bullseye in the right hand one , over which a red slide could be moved to act as a tail lamp . |
| 6 | It 's er it 's like made of blackthorn and the upper part of it 's all little knobbly and a head like a a head turned in like a h like the head of an a of a bird . |
| 7 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 8 | as if to confirm his train of thought there came a great crashing and a screeching of metal . |
| 9 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 10 | Attendants ' outfits and accessories are all available and a department especially for the men , with a wide range of morning wear , a Highland Collection and evening wear , ensures the best dressed wedding in town . |
| 11 | What 's a work permit worth here — a few hundred Eastern Caribbean and a bunch of bananas ? ’ |
| 12 | He is a non-executive director of Grand Metropolitan and a member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank and of the International Council of the European Institute of Business Administration ( INSEAD ) . |
| 13 | They , or rather Morrissey , thinks he 's all wise and a sort of father figure . |
| 14 | A medical orderly and a nurse patch up a competitor 's foot during a break in the Nijmegen Marches |
| 15 | The 407-yard par-four 11th has one of the most challenging tee shots — three ditches , heavy rough and a bunker await the wayward drive . |
| 16 | This will ensure that the augmented tableau is not primal feasible and a pivot in the added row will make the slack variable non-basic . |
| 17 | I took a look at Dell 's 33MHz 433/L machine , which comes with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 pre-installed and a mouse . |
| 18 | There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you . |
| 19 | There are three rooms available : one double , one single and a family room . |
| 20 | The authority is seeking damages from building contractor Wiltshier Northern and a number of other defendants including Stockton engineering consultants Simpson , Coulson and Partners and a roofing firm , Broderick Structures . |
| 21 | Colorich is a high quality pure cotton fabric with six colour themes of light brown , brown with a ‘ shafts of light effect ’ , grey/white , purple , mid blue and a multicolour grey/blue/brown design . |
| 22 | The records must contain day-to-day entries of all money received or expended and of the matters to which that related and a record of the company 's assets and liabilities . |
| 23 | With a new single imminent and a debut album currently in the writing stage ( both definitely on the funky tip ) , Jamiroquai can justifiably hold his head high . |
| 24 | It catches several eel-pout and a couple of butterfish which it eats on the surface , sometimes holding the fish between its forepaws in order to control their writhing . |
| 25 | Comparison of the oligonucleotides used in this study ( Fig. 4A ) suggests that a change from G to A at position 9 may abolish high-affinity binding and a change from T to A at position 5 could also be detrimental to binding of the pou[c] POU domain . |
| 26 | A grille was opened , revealing an evil , narrow-faced , yellow-featured man with eyes of watery blue and a mouth as thin as a vice . |
| 27 | DIVISION two of the English Schools Swimming Association which covers Merseyside , Lancashire , Cheshire and the Isle of Mannotched two individual and a team victory in the Schools National Championships at Wolverhampton . |
| 28 | It comes in a large range of tints , but I only use three : a warm grey , a blue grey and a sand colour . |
| 29 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 30 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |