Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [art] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner , wisely not trusting London tap water for his greenhouse , had installed a network of guttering to catch rainwater in a pair of large aluminium beer barrels ( worth over a hundred quid to the brewery and a thousand a ton to the illegal smelting operations over in Barking ) . |
| 2 | In reply Jesus told the parable of the two debtors , a simple story about two men , one of whom owed a lot of money and the other a little . |
| 3 | Mr Tholen , of Girsby , has two sons , one an RAF Jaguar pilot who served during the Gulf War and the other a marine engineer . |
| 4 | Ruling out scales designed for use with non-elderly people , for inpatient populations , for administration by clinicians , for information gathering from close relatives , and any not previously validated or not sensitive to changes over time , two scales were selected from the Comprehensive Assessment and Referral Examination ( CARE ) Schedule ( Gurland et al , 1977 ) namely the Organic Brain Syndrome ( OBS ) scale and the Depression scale , the former a ten point and the latter a 30 point scale . |
| 5 | One has a dog 's head , another a boar 's head , a third a bull 's head and the fourth a bird 's head . |
| 6 | One was wearing a blue jacket and the other a grey jacket . |
| 7 | There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work . |
| 8 | One has a pistol and the other a short shotgun . |
| 9 | Two areas of about 40 mm , one including the gastric ulcer and the other a similar area of adjacent intact mucosa were excised and the radioactivity of each excised piece was measured and expressed as cpm per 100 mg of tissue . |
| 10 | One is a Nigerian man , one is an Indian woman and the other a Kurdish man . |
| 11 | Two Macintosh servers , one designed to provide faster AppleShare performance and the other a high-speed imaging server , are under development in Apple Computer Inc 's Enterprise Systems Division for delivery next year , according to MacWeek sources . |
| 12 | Paisley , John Wylie , and Ivan Foster , with two others , one a Protestant Action Councillor and the other a staunch old loyalist lady from the Shankill Road , were charged with public order offences . |
| 13 | Here for openers are two highly charged paintings from that era one a vertical composition of the Gothic arched interior of Escomb Church and the other a horizontal representation of the Emotional Debris in the Romanesque arcade of the cathedral itself . |
| 14 | ‘ Before was born , but when he showed , we read two books with then 13–17 months both entitled ‘ The New Baby ’ : one an Usborne book and the other a Camilla Jessel book . |
| 15 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh no , ’ said Ralph as he saw Tubby clutching in one hand his knee and the other a bloody stump . |
| 17 | One of a bull , one of a ram and the third a beast of terrible aspect . |
| 18 | Figure 24.2 is in two complementary parts , one showing a short time stretch in detail and the other a much longer stretch without detail . |
| 19 | One of them had the bagpipes , another a violin and the third a flute . |
| 20 | Two horses came plodding into view , one a handsome chestnut with a startling blaze down its face and the other a grey , following behind . |