Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a wacky feel but perhaps you have to see them live . |
| 2 | Duke William could claim that he was going to oust a perjured usurper and also to remove from the see of Canterbury an archbishop not recognized in Rome . |
| 3 | They came with their spouses , friends and children for a historic stroll and perhaps some shopping . |
| 4 | This is unfair , for it is a historic city and once in a while something does happen . |
| 5 | She had a pleasant disposition and always had a twinkle in her eyes . |
| 6 | The Countess d'Agoult , better known perhaps under her nom de plume of Daniel Stern , presided over a republican circle in her fine house on the Champs Elysées , while Juliette Adam , married to a rich banker and later to become the mistress of the republican politician Gambetta , maintained an equally republican salon in her ( less grand ) apartment on the Boulevard Poissonière . |
| 7 | In another , a peasant and soldier watch for three nights at the grave of a rich man and so defeat the devil 's hold on him . |
| 8 | They are all empirical , qualitative , aesthetic , concrete activities , and they all have a rich vocabulary and indeed literature . |
| 9 | Matching fringes give a rich finish or perhaps you could add a very heavy tassel to each of the corners to weight them . |
| 10 | For a tasty afternoon treat , try mixing nuts and cherries in a rich toffee and then coat in chocolate to make delicious , crisp florentines . |
| 11 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 12 | This is a retrospective analysis and so should be interpreted with caution , but our study of one patient with vitamin C deficiency and with H pylori eradicated does lend some supporting evidence . |
| 13 | They were a friendly family and very helpful when Breeze , seeing them take so much trouble over finding a suitable board , told them what she hoped to do with it . |
| 14 | Obviously it was once a depressed area and equally obviously much remains to be done , but things have certainly changed since the advent of the HIDB and WIIC . |
| 15 | At the moment I 'm training a red-tailed buzzard and only letting it move a few inches — just off my fist and back again . |
| 16 | Three tracks of the usual dreamy guitar pop from Norfolk 's finest , with a lazy edge and maybe a couple of quid more spent on the studio than last time . |
| 17 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 18 | The parcel with which I was presented was the size of a largish shoe-box and surprisingly heavy . |
| 19 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 20 | but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you |
| 21 | All you do is , you get a mop and you just swish it over and you get a dry mop and just polish it up . |
| 22 | In one data disk on the First World War , for instance , pupils were able to access an official report of an attack , an entry in a private diary and also to see how a newspaper reported the incident . |
| 23 | Except in relation to discretionary management , the rule as such only applies to a private customer and thus , to some extent , non-private customers are left to make their own judgement as to the frequency of dealings . |
| 24 | Graduating MA with first-class honours in classical literature in 1869 , he spent one year as a private tutor and then from 1871 to 1872 he was an assistant in the department of humanities at King 's College , Aberdeen . |
| 25 | At the same time we argued that private morality or immorality was a private affair and therefore that ‘ there must remain a realm of private morality or immorality which is … not the law 's business ’ . |
| 26 | He was educated at a private school and later at the Bellevue Academy , Greenwich . |
| 27 | Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church . |
| 28 | The American claims to be acting purely as a private citizen but clearly his fact-finding mission has some clout if both Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew agreed to speak to him . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , while working at Southall in 1936 , both were knocked down by a private car and seriously injured . |
| 30 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |