Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] and 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude , or a loving and a permissive one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | it has an ex-RAF man as its Secretary and a Major and a Wing Commander among its participants . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An impending thirtieth birthday and a two and a half year-old daughter called Sophie have n't turned her fashion tastes one whit . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A tied and a true and a tidy wife — |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And then the third and then the third and a fourth and a fifth and so on all the way through . |
| 13 | Other victims were an English tourist in March 1989 , an Austrian journalist in April , and an Australian and a New Zealander in December , while two West German tourists disappeared in May after being forced off a bus in the south of the country . |
| 14 | Its casing measures just 107 by 75 by 32mm , with a DB-25 serial port at one end and an RJ-11 and a power inlet at the other . |
| 15 | Another fall put him out of the reckoning in the first heat , but an eighth and a sixth were good enough to earn seventh overall . |