Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 2 | All 36 species of big cat are either vulnerable or endangered and the tiger , the cheetah , the snow leopard , the jaguar and the cougar are now facing extinction . |
| 3 | Planning was often difficult or impossible and the need for home care was less . |
| 4 | Frequency of repetition will depend on whether the condition is acute or chronic and the vitality of the patient . |
| 5 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 6 | Hit a double or treble and the value of that score is counted , eg double four counts as eight . |
| 7 | ‘ What do you do if your best friend is injured or ill and the vet 's fees mean trouble for you too ? ’ |
| 8 | The plumage was usually bronze or black and the breast was narrow , quite different from the broad-breasted , white-feathered fowls which are bred in such huge numbers today . |
| 9 | This details its past record , how its performance is expected to be affected by the jockey , whether the grass is soft or firm and the distance . |
| 10 | Altogether £345.15 was collected by fair means or foul and the Company has very generously rounded this up to £500 . |
| 11 | Typical topics include arrangements for special events such as the occasional group tour booking or function , the repair or renewal of equipment , the replacement of staff who have retired or resigned and the renegotiation of purchasing contracts . |
| 12 | Er o er ascribed a description of mild , moderate or severe and the degree of inflammatory response was virtually identical in the two groups . |
| 13 | You do not mention whether you are using Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and the procedure is slightly different in each . |
| 14 | If the temperature of the liquid is increased , more particles achieve the energy or higher and the rate of evaporation thus increases . |
| 15 | If you are elderly or disabled and the rubbish has to be taken down to the end of a long driveway can you cope ? |
| 16 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 17 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 18 | When the rapist is a government agent , that rape is torture or ill-treatment and the state is responsible for it . " |
| 19 | The impression I got was that Leeds started off REALLY well with a totally dominant mid-field , that West Ham started to make a game of it but that the weather got worse & worse and the game just degenerated . |
| 20 | the preantennal segment is often poorly defined or unrecognizable and the protocerebrum is derived largely from the ectoderm of the lateral cephalic lobes . |
| 21 | There may be conflicts of interest between local management of a branch or subsidiary and the organisation as a whole ; or between sales and production departments in a manufacturing firm ( over scheduling , product variation etc ) ; or between trade unions and management . |
| 22 | Ground plans are square or rectangular and the east end is apsidal , generally with three polygonal apses which are semi-circular inside . |
| 23 | Usually with a drink or several and the company of good friends . |
| 24 | The age of the full-time judiciary has remained constant over many years : the average on appointment has been about fifty-two or -three and the average of all those in office has been about sixty . |
| 25 | That 's whether you pay level or escalating and the age of the client . |
| 26 | Copious salivation ; often with a metallic taste or sweet or salty and a sense of dryness with intense thirst sometimes . |
| 27 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 28 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 29 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 30 | If undecided on the diameter you need , remember that tube joiners will be required somewhere or other and the fit will have to be a good one . |