Example sentences of "[adj] and a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare , who is 30 and an art tutor , attended the presentation ceremony at The Mall Galleries , London last week . |
| 2 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
| 3 | All this and a war hero to boot . |
| 4 | At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’ |
| 5 | There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you . |
| 6 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |
| 7 | However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In October 1924 the Labour-led coalition of Ramsay MacDonald was defeated in a House of Commons vote over the proposal to prosecute Workers ' Weekly and an election campaign began . |
| 10 | Being unemployed and a house owner put even more stress on our relationship . |
| 11 | He was a proper fop : his roses and cream complexion was clean-shaven and a silver pearl dangled from a small gold chain in his right ear lobe . |
| 12 | ( 57 ) A laser , 8 , 12 and a modulating FET 9 , 10 , 11 are integrated . |
| 13 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 14 | But it was an extension that in the first instance was of greatest benefit to the middle classes , who were , in both a social and a transportation sense , the mobile classes . |
| 15 | One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that . |
| 16 | The calculated minimal sample size was eight subjects in each group , with an alpha risk of 0.05 and a beta risk of 0.10 . |
| 17 | Another case involved a collision in mid-air between an Iberian DC-9 and a Spantax Convair Coronado over Nantes in France , in which the great majority of the passengers in the DC-9 were British . |
| 18 | On this amp , Ch.1 is the lead channel and the standard volume , treble , middle , bass and master volume controls are also given the secondary tasks of channel select , gain 1 , gain 2 and a notch shift . |
| 19 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 20 | A baby would get born and an upstairs window be lit at night : an old man would die and the hearse arrive , and a gap be felt for a while , but the very pressure of ordinariness , or whatever it was , soon healed it up . |
| 21 | The " d " and the " w " of Andrew are somewhat different and a pen stroke joining the " w " of Andrew to the capital " 5 " of " Stavanger " is also different . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The news broadcast had moved on to other matters now ; the loss of contact between Earth Central and a Space Fleet flotilla which had been on its way to intercept a supposed alien fleet near Epsilon Eridani . |
| 24 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 25 | The screens are colourful and a MONO version will be along shortly . |
| 26 | Communication soon became virtually impossible and a rope tangle forced me to take off my dachsteins briefly . |
| 27 | Although the laryngeal mask does not protect the airway against gastric contents , it has potential for use in resuscitation and emergency medicine when intubation is impossible and a patent airway can not be maintained with a face mask . |
| 28 | Data were compared by statistical procedures as appropriate and a p value of <0.05 was considered significant . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There is a cast of 100 and a stage crew of 20 but every pupil in the school was involved in the artwork , costumes and hall decorations . |