Example sentences of "[adj] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 2 | The sky was clear and a full moon shone , lighting the landscape . |
| 3 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 4 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 5 | And he claims specifically that this is because writing itself has a dual , a poetic and a critical function . |
| 6 | The two database management systems are closely integrated to allow the solution of questions which have both a locational and a non-spatial content . |
| 7 | This was interesting and a new idea , and Grainne would have liked to know more . |
| 8 | So those are the kind of odd little things that help to make our job interesting and a little bit more exciting . |
| 9 | The ultimate goal was the creation of an industry , originally funded by foreign investment , that would be self-sustaining and a major earner of foreign currency . |
| 10 | You want to be light and a good conductor of heat . |
| 11 | For example , one might propose that the mental lexicon is divided into a semantic and a phonological system , rather than being a unified whole , and that priming occurs in only one of these systems . |
| 12 | Q The natural colour of my hair is between a light brown and a dark brown . |
| 13 | He was of a kind Creggan did not recognize , with white head plumage that ran magnificently down his neck , and wing feathers of a deep and rich brown and a black-yellow beak . |
| 14 | By three both felt certain something was wrong and a nervous debate began about what they should do . |
| 15 | As Community Care launches its campaign , I would argue these principles : first , abuse is wrong and a criminal offence . |
| 16 | It was an Andalusian ; a beauty of a horse , sixteen hands high and a perfect mulberry in colour . |
| 17 | This is a time of tension when the stakes may be high and a future plan hangs by a thread . |
| 18 | The cost of living in Britain is high and a single student grant is not adequate for the maintenance of a wife or husband . |
| 19 | Coke gives them a quick high and a safe return . |
| 20 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 21 | King , 27 years old and a Baptist minister , was a great orator and an inspiring leader . |
| 22 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 23 | Thus , an 80 year old and a 40 year old should have an equal chance of being offered cardiac surgery in equivalent circumstances . |
| 24 | Elizabeth and I turned on him severely , and told him that someone who was both old and a distinguished writer was not to be bothered with such things . |
| 25 | She was about forty years old and a little fat . |
| 26 | In Casey 's pub , now over 100 years old and a popular haunt for fishermen and folk musicians , the proprietors , sisters Joan and Anne Casey , recalled the happier days when visitors packed the Lake Hotel , which was run by their parents , and the Melvin . |
| 27 | The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required . |
| 28 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 29 | Lord Lane accepted that the refusal to allow Alladice a lawyer was quite improper and a clear breach of section 58 . |
| 30 | ‘ Ultra Violet ’ is both a brave and a foolhardy step . |