Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Its door was only a metre high and half a metre wide , so I could only just get inside on my hands and knees . |
2 | We all know how the smell of such and such a flower or soap or tree conjures up memories of an incident in our past life . |
3 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
4 | The computer is fed with all the relevant data , and ecological theory , and is then asked , ‘ if we did such and such , to this lake ( or river , or bay , or whatever ) , what effect would this have on such and such a pollutant ? ’ |
5 | But , er , other people start bringing up sort of problems with the French tax situation on such and such a structure of company or whatever , which is not anything we want to get involved with . |
6 | And if they were n't properly done , you 'd tell the forewoman that that was n't in such and such a coach in compartment was needing under the seats were needing cleaning . |
7 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
8 | The great defect in such writing is that it is often structured by questions of the form Who discovered such and such a fact first ? or Who first anticipated such and such a concept ? |
9 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
10 | McDowell 's excessively subtle thesis teeters on the brink of the view that ‘ This is red ’ means ‘ This looks red to standard observers ’ and ‘ This is good ’ means ‘ This appeals in such and such a way to a normal person ’ . |
11 | going to Oxford , if you went to Oxford and you come to such and such a way and you 're going out towards Ipswich and the big roundabout there was |
12 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
13 | It may be very useful to know that there is a first-class industrial photographer in Tyneside or that such and such a photographer near the Exeter depot should not be used again . |
14 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
15 | And I want them on , such and such a day . |
16 | Well the election agent was the man responsible for getting that data through to the , the candidate to say that you 're speaking at a meeting , such and such a night , and another meeting at such and such so keeping the , keeps that candidate on his toes , all the time , during an election campaign until election 's over and then of course er you know what transpires after that I su it 's either |
17 | But there 's still , we still I mean er er you perhaps need to talk to Rob to see what he wants his input , it 's always been a bit airy fairy and there , there are sheets ! the choice is not the same but they should be aware of some of the implications if they choose to go down such and such a road . |
18 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
19 | you know , maybe even have cut-off dates so that if there is n't , you know , a script by such and such a date then we will need to figure out what these dates were , but this is why got more on board |
20 | On the advert that 's gone in I did wonder whether to put please respond by such and such a date ? |
21 | If you come to me and say ‘ I 've had such and such a dream ’ , I 'll say to you ‘ Go away and do it ’ . ’ |
22 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |
23 | Why have n't you sold the shares in such and such a company ? ’ |
24 | The authors also on occasion add judgements of their own , that , for example , such and such a scholar was honoured above his deserts , another below . |
25 | And er they used to trade up and down this room , Miss I 'll be wearing such and such a dress and it 'll be such and such a colour and er then we used to make the hat for it . |
26 | From the outside people may say she has married into such and such a descent group but this does not mean that she is also not at the same time the wife of a particular man . |
27 | Saying what they 're in er erm erm , so look , and wa watch so and so very carefully Jack I 've got him in such and such a race . |
28 | At twelve midnight on 1 January 1975 , Mars appeared at such and such a position in the sky . |
29 | picket , and when they go out we all come back , reject work , such and such a component were missing , they sent us different components through |
30 | And er they used to trade up and down this room , Miss I 'll be wearing such and such a dress and it 'll be such and such a colour and er then we used to make the hat for it . |