Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 2 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 3 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 4 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 5 | We may roughly classify problems connected with fishing industries as those which are affected by very quick changes , such as uncertainties of the weather ; or by changes of moderate length , such as the increased demand for fish caused by the scarcity of meat during the year or two following a cattle plague . [ … ] |
| 6 | If guar gum proves ineffective or unpalatable then a sulphonylurea can be added , preferably avoiding the excessively long-acting chloropropamide . |
| 7 | But according to Israeli officials , most of the Soviets choose to live here in Tel Aviv or Haifa in Israel proper , and that only a fraction , less than one per cent , go to the occupied territories . |
| 8 | She always used to ask my opinions of things and that now a lot of my answers made sense . |
| 9 | A clear handball , as the replay shows and sure enough a penalty , but then Oxford 's Mike Ford was mysteriously sent off for the offence . |
| 10 | In order to clarify the procedure we work the " general case " first and only then a couple of concrete examples . |
| 11 | All right let's see if we can get you a bugler nobody 's ringing at the moment but you want a bugler for a week on Sunday the fourteenth to blow reveille and the Last Post at eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock a week on Sunday at Calverton in Nottinghamshire . |
| 12 | Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations . |
| 13 | Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little . |