Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bad news is that the eight-way — and seven-way — machines will not be single-image systems but two fours — or a four and a three — tied together in an MP configuration , so that software has to be loaded on each side . |
| 2 | So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it . |
| 3 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 4 | But the negative motive is not the whole of it ; Athens was anxious about her own supplies of grain in the mid-fifth century , and benefited in 445/4 from a massive gift of corn — 30,000 medimnoi , or a million and a half daily rations — from an Egyptian prince ‘ Psammetichos ’ ( Philochorus F 119 = Fornara 86 ) . |
| 5 | It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude , or a loving and a permissive one . |
| 6 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 7 | Or a three or a six . |
| 8 | Will it be a multiple choice or a written or a |
| 9 | It logically follows from this that a fit person should need less sleep than an unfit one , or a man than a woman , or a grown-up than a child . |
| 10 | As soon as a slum kid entered a Ragged School or a Borstal or a Barnardo 's Home , the hair was shorn to prevent infestation ) . |
| 11 | send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or |
| 12 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or ’ Telephone means the same public system as at the alternative point at 2 ante . |
| 13 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character , or ’ This point is proved as the last point with the recipient explaining the indecent , obscene or menacing nature of the call . |
| 14 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 15 | We should constantly be aware that when most people use the term ‘ mixed race ’ they do not mean a child of Indian and African parents , nor a Chinese and a person of African descent , they generally mean the child of a white person and any other person who is not white . |
| 16 | In his later asylums at Gloucester ( 1811 ) and Dundee ( 1812 ) , Stark himself adopted markedly less institutionalized concepts , the former being planned as a crescent set in gardens and the latter as a domestically scaled rural farm . |
| 17 | The essential difference , the author claims , is that ‘ caring work involves a degree of intimacy , of closeness socially ( emotionally and/or physically ) between the carer and the cared-for and a recognition of the individuality of the person receiving the service ’ . |
| 18 | Two fine 18th century dolls are at the centre of the notable doll collection , and there are also dolls ' houses from the 19th century and the 1920s and a model of a German kitchen . |
| 19 | What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state . |
| 20 | And the three and a halfs agreed with seven twenties . |
| 21 | it has an ex-RAF man as its Secretary and a Major and a Wing Commander among its participants . |
| 22 | Later that month an ambiguous assembly in the king 's chamber granted a subsidy of one eighth and a fifth and a wool prise of 8000 sacks in return for a royal promise to confirm the charters . |
| 23 | An impending thirtieth birthday and a two and a half year-old daughter called Sophie have n't turned her fashion tastes one whit . |
| 24 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 25 | A tied and a true and a tidy wife — |
| 26 | The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at . |
| 27 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 28 | One petitioner wants a grant to repair the leaky roof of his house , another a grant to clear the stream running past his farm , another wants a Council job and a fourth and a fifth want help with social welfare applications . |
| 29 | And then the third and then the third and a fourth and a fifth and so on all the way through . |
| 30 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |