Example sentences of "[indef pn] [coord] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grinned at nothing or a secret joke . |
| 2 | Mrs Burrows was careful to indicate what a privilege this was , her only son and she , Alexandra , a nobody and a temporary resident at that . |
| 3 | But if you quite like sleeping with the offending partner for other reasons , you 'll need earplugs , a light where it disturbs nobody and a good book till the warm drink you 've made for consolation lulls you back to the Land of Nod — pending the next onslaught . |
| 4 | Horse drawn buggy rides : Great fun for everyone and a good way to see the village ! |
| 5 | It all seemed a bit pointless — and anyway no-one but a raving lunatic was going to attempt to get airborne in those conditions . |
| 6 | Well no , he has got a bad throat an you know , he had a little lump in his throat , I think they thought it was cancer or something or a little growth , but you often get that in the throat . |
| 7 | The possibility of establishing a taxon or class by fiat encourages anatomists to take one or a few specimens and subject them to very detailed dissection . |
| 8 | On balance , studies have found no indication of harmful physical effects ; no evidence that television introduces a harmful amount of aggression , violence or fear into an already normal child or that it turns an undisturbed child into a disturbed one or a non-delinquent child into a delinquent . |
| 9 | Words were everything and a quirky sense of observation added an extra ingredient . |
| 10 | ‘ The Communist Party still controls everything and a quick election will not be truly free . ’ |
| 11 | Torn between a huge urge to do everything and a huge ignorance about how to go about it . |
| 12 | And , every Saturday she would cook for me , usually curry , something and a good bottle of wine . |
| 13 | As it was , most people laughed , one bright spark asked if I was going to sell him something and a female student in a park scarf accused me of being a pervert . |
| 14 | It seemed that half the world wanted to give Hannah something and a classic example occurred when the programme was shown by a Dutch television station . |
| 15 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 16 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 17 | And , and one and a half times . |
| 18 | After one and a half minutes the aircraft began to overshoot , correctly making an initial turn to the west . |
| 19 | not being taken until one and a half minutes before the guillotine fell . |
| 20 | What I do n't want is ten minutes of waffle and one and a half minutes of pure gold . |
| 21 | The Nikolaikirche , with 2,000 seats , was full one and a half hours before the church meeting began . |
| 22 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |
| 23 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 24 | Normally , the time allotted will not exceed one and a half hours , but I propose to exercise a discretion to allow one or two debates to continue for rather longer , up to a maximum of three hours . |
| 25 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 26 | Moscow Sea , making his first appearance of the season , caught the eye on his debut last October , running on strongly to finish one and a half lengths third to Bob 's Return . |
| 27 | And er I told Mum the other day that w in double science we 've still got to do one and a half topics . |
| 28 | we 've still got ta do one and a half topics of these books . |
| 29 | Compassion for the victims of this sick Tory society compassion for the millions of people who have no work compassion for the victims of racists and racisms compassion for the victims of the public service cuts , whether it be the miserable one and a half percent pay offers compulsory competitive tendering job cuts , low pay , the pensioners , the elderly , the sick , the child , the list is never ending . |
| 30 | Is it one and a half centuries , is it two ? |