Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glass of wine , a measure of spirits or a half a pint of beer equal a unit . |
| 2 | In this test the material is in the form of a bar a quarter or a half an inch square and is often provided with a standard notch to initiate failure . |
| 3 | Two horses came plodding into view , one a handsome chestnut with a startling blaze down its face and the other a grey , following behind . |
| 4 | The applicants , one a Hindu and the other a Muslim , applied in November 1990 , expressing their preference in accordance with the Education Act 1980 , for their respective daughters to be admitted to the school from September 1991 . |
| 5 | It may be that the first is a purse which is never empty , and the second a pot which provides a wholesome meal whenever you demand one in the right way . |
| 6 | One set has a length of 75mm and gives a medium cut , and the second a length of 100mm , and gives a coarse cut . |
| 7 | The first is an analysis of the relationship between the national economy and the industrial property market in different parts of the country , and the second an interview survey looking at the influence of premises on firms ' growth , efficiency and corporate strategies . |
| 8 | A man and his wife , and five children , the eldest eight years of age and the youngest an infant . |
| 9 | One of them had the bagpipes , another a violin and the third a flute . |
| 10 | The next was a black cocker spaniel , and the third a springer spaniel which I trained to retrieve and took with me whenever I went away to shoot . |
| 11 | You know , and so , so the second time , the second day I could say one or two words and the third a little bit more , but eh that 's it . |
| 12 | One of a bull , one of a ram and the third a beast of terrible aspect . |
| 13 | The Wolverton Royal Train remained in this form until 1 94 1 , when three superb vehicles were completed at Wolverton Works , two of them saloons for George VI and Queen Elizabeth , to replace the L & NWR twelve-wheelers of 1903 , and the third a carriage with sleeping compartments for the staff , luggage space , and a diesel-electric plant for supplying light and power to the train . |
| 14 | The first showed an adult playing peacefully with a doll , the second an adult playing aggressively with the doll and the third an adult playing aggressively and being rewarded . |
| 15 | One has a dog 's head , another a boar 's head , a third a bull 's head and the fourth a bird 's head . |
| 16 | And the larger a parrot 's bill , the less likely it was to attack a mirror reflecting its own image ( a standard ploy which convinces most birds that they are confronted by a particularly nasty-looking aggressor ) . |
| 17 | Numbers did indeed fall to 166 in 1913 ; but the Board 's reactions to the 185 in the School in December 1914 , and the 192 a year later , are not recorded . |
| 18 | One minute a well-behaved group of us — writers , intellectuals and so forth — were contentedly watching Zelda Plum dancing with the chinchilla on her head while Ken the Australian Horse Player offered odds ( 'Six to four the rat , ’ he used to say , I do not know why , and on this particular evening the rat escaped and tripped up Robin Fox , London 's most distinguished theatrical agent , who fell on top of Wales 's friend , the actress Susan George ) and the next a squad of hooligans were pushing people around and conjuring a piece of pot from Mrs Mouse 's sewing basket . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're very welcome — have n't the Irish and the Welsh a lot in common , when all 's said and done ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Well I do n't know somebody say Mao leading to such and a such a phase or |
| 22 | And a half a quart is one pint . |
| 23 | In the conventional view , Britain , once a legend throughout the world for its stolid , peaceable , and harmonious character , has experienced in the last decade and a half an alien and shocking advent of unprecedented incivility and disorder . |
| 24 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But the briefer a sound is , the more difficult it is to make it energetic enough to produce a decent echo . |