Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 2 | They are being kept in cells under close observation because of fears that they may become suicidal or stage a protest . |
| 3 | Top target is likely to be cigarettes and extra tax could push the price up by between 12 and 15p a packet . |
| 4 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 5 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 6 | ‘ Jane 's 22 and Grant a bit older but she 's very intense and tries to force a commitment , while he 's very airy-fairy and does n't want to think about the future . |
| 7 | After he gave up the booze at Christmas 1977 — for good - he gave us his splendid Brian which is as clever and well-judged a piece of comic acting as you 'll see . |
| 8 | Williams , Landel & Ferry ( 1955 ) found experimentally that 1n aT followed a relation of the form and further that C1 and C2 seemed to be universal parameters with values C1 = 20.4 , C2 = 101.6 and Ts a reference temperature , which is different for each polymer but generally found to be about 50° above the glass transition temperature Tg . |
| 9 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 10 | In the early and mid-1980s a handful of ‘ municipal socialist ’ Labour councils ( triumphantly declared ‘ loony ’ by Norman Tebbit and the right-wing press ) were used as a symbol of the party 's alleged financial irresponsibility . |
| 11 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
| 12 | Quite simply , this theory states that countries will gain if each country exports a product in which costs of production are , comparatively , lower and imports a product in which its costs of production are , comparatively , higher . |
| 13 | And er the firm payed me er four shilling , a week , and er the man I was working with , he he , the rest of it was taken out of his er his er wage packet er and put into mine , and so I got about eleven and sixpence a week . |
| 14 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 15 | Just had to leave because Dad says If you 're not working there for eight and sixpence a week , when you had to leave one job at twelve and six . |
| 16 | B , sex festival in Amsterdam in the early seventies or C a side show at Blackpool ? |
| 17 | Finally , you may wish to subdivide these blocks into smaller areas , either permanently or for short periods for even greater control when strip- or paddock-grazing a ley or for folding stock over roots . |
| 18 | The point for Kojak will not be the relevance of the information , nor the nature of it , but merely that he has it and others do n't — that 's what makes it valuable and Kojak a computer stud . |
| 19 | IT 'S brutal , sombre , anti-heroic , relentlessly unforgiving and stars a bunch of guys who are practically pensioners . |
| 20 | Silverstone was fog bound and slippy but Donnelly a quest of the Jordan team won the day … |
| 21 | ‘ Sixteen and sixpence a week . |
| 22 | Men preferred a seat height of about 0.430 m and women a height of about 0.404 m . |
| 23 | Michael : It 's like once the man ( referring to the teacher ) come in the class , and ask me in front of the class , ‘ Why me coffee coloured ’ , he say , ‘ How come Wallace dark , and Kennedy black and Kevin a bit browner ? |
| 24 | And they er locked us out until we 'd go back for ten and thruppence a day , so of course we did n't go back . |
| 25 | At ten and thruppence a week . |
| 26 | When I went home a when I was started at ten and thruppence a week , it was a regula regulation in the family that the spending money erm basis , what you got for spending , was a penny in the shilling . |
| 27 | Although the nose is a little higher and power a bit less the landing is still straightforward . |
| 28 | By November 1160 he had decided that Henry and Margaret were old enough to be married ; Henry was now five and Margaret a couple of years younger . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 30 | About one and odds a week short . |