Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fire engulfed five storeys of building where Alloprene a rubber compound added to paint is produced .
2 Even Jim could n't have fixed it for Gideon to be a military hero , or Moses a great leader , or Peter to be a rock-like dependable person , or Jeremiah a powerful preacher ; but God could and did .
3 Even Jim could n't have fixed it for Gideon to be a military hero , or Moses a great leader , or Peter to be a rock-like dependable person , or Jeremiah a powerful preacher ; but God could and did .
4 I 'd given Luke and Ma a few problems .
5 Each year in February and March a different decade is remembered , with the festival reaching its climax in the year 2000 .
6 Finally , for both Wimsatt and Brooks a defining characteristic of poetry was irony .
7 Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths has given Sega and Nintendo a three-week deadline to act .
8 Charles had a pint and Gerald a dry martini ( Charles almost expected him to ask for it ‘ shaken not stirred ’ ) .
9 In She and Allan a substantial subplot concerning the kidnapping of half-Portuguese Inez Robertson by the Amahaggar and her rescue by Allan and Umslopagaas , and the tremendous duel between the Zulu warrior and Ayesha 's gigantic adversary Reza , lightens the inflated , intense musings of the goddess woman .
10 Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre .
11 In the far north-east and Karnchatka a common marriage practice was the residence of the husband in the family of his bride for a certain period of time , in order to pay for her by performing work for the family .
12 As for centre backs I 've no idea — ideally I 'd like to see him give half wit and Weatherall a good go along with Tinkler , Forrester and Sharp as I really ca n't see us winning the league after Saturdays shite performance .
13 You would n't like to make me and Jean a nice cup of tea would you please , darling .
14 Him and David a few beers What you doing with the mum ?
15 Times were troubled , and England a rich source of plunder .
16 In Northern Ireland , as we have seen , the matter was solved by allocating ill the services of major significance to the provincial level , but in London , England and Wales , and Scotland a local government solution had to be found .
17 De Klerk gives Mandela and ANC a growing role : South Africa 's white leader , who yesterday met black churchmen , is already deferring to Nelson Mandela , John Carlin writes
18 Relief work and voluntary aid continues , which is what brought truck drivers Dick and Ray a long way from their Oxford homes to deliver important equipment to the struggling hospitals and orphanages .
19 Between the months of December and January a solitary woman can often be seen progressing through the vineyards removing the twists of wire which had been used the previous spring to attach the vines to the guide wires .
20 Croatia and Slovenia wanted a confederation of independent states , Serbia and Montenegro a tighter union .
21 I had slept for almost four hours more , made myself a mug of tea at about nine o'clock and carried it outside while I wished Mick and Paddy a merry Christmas .
22 Soon after nine , when I had wished Mick and Paddy a merry Christmas , I was back in my sleeping-bag .
23 ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops .
24 At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable .
25 In Slovenia and Croatia a serious peasant rising , led by Matija Gubec , threatened the city of Agram ( Zagreb ) in 1573 .
26 The fact that Best was a 9 stone waif , and Eddie a chunky lad probably contributed to Best 's turn of pace .
27 Then in the 1960s Picasso gave an important collection to the city and Miró a large donation of paintings and sculptures .
28 There has been talk of Johnston moving on , but within a minute of Wright 's goal he gave Everton and Kendall a precious equaliser .
29 Erm in Yorkshire and Humberside a little bit unexpected , the October survey showed that orders were flat and expectations about output were also fairly flat so it 's come through erm rather better than people thought it would in the Yorkshire and Humberside region .
30 The steep track down to the gate gave the last trolley and Bill a stylish tango across the floor of the van .
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