Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few groups take such a route but The Wedding Present 's individualistic work structure and division of labour would seem to increase its likelihood . |
| 2 | The termination of a benefit or a payment or a service is a sharp , specific assault upon identifiable individuals ; it gives political opponents something solid to talk about ; they can actually produce the bodies and point to the wounds . |
| 3 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 4 | Even those built on the initiative of a prince or a king were often sited with quite other ends in view . |
| 5 | This child was the first human , strung between two worlds — born of a prince and a sky goddess . |
| 6 | After so long of acquiescence , the Welsh felt themselves Welsh again , a nation with a prince and a prophet of their own . |
| 7 | As he put his hand inside there was a squawking and a scrabbling of claws and flapping wings . |
| 8 | An alkali is a base but a base is n't an alkali . |
| 9 | Mind you , it 's twenty , twenty five quid for a base but the thing is these that particular tube in there is in most of those tissues is n't it ? |
| 10 | At least seventy five percent you can work out well what have we got we got an acid or a base or a carbonate or what , and does it fit any of the I mean there are n't many patterns , there 's metal acid , what does that give ? |
| 11 | Then we 've got a base plus an acid , what 's the difference again between a base and an alkali ? |
| 12 | So that 's an acid plus a metal , now an acid plus a base which is this one we 've just done , a metal oxide the metal oxides are bases , er you can think of them as being alkaline , we call it basic but very very similar sort of thing to alkaline okay so what happens with a base and an acid ? |
| 13 | With a base and an acid |
| 14 | Right great and what happens what seems to be happening with a base and an acid or an acid and a base ? |
| 15 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 16 | The icons to the left indicate that a slide is a chart or an organisation diagram . |
| 17 | A project may be interdisciplinary , and require the contributions of an engineer , a scientist , a statistician and a production expert , who would each be appointed to the team from their functional department , whilst still retaining membership and status within their ‘ home ’ department , ie : |
| 18 | ‘ You 're nothing but a brute and a bully ! |
| 19 | If perhaps we regard it just as a , a technicality and an amendment of wording and where the statement of case prepared by the officers reads the development of a fifth terminal at Heathrow is supported in principal . |
| 20 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 21 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 22 | Consider how you went about setting it up , and whether it was a trial or a delight , or a mixture of the two . |
| 23 | Do we wonder if they live alone , or if there is a mother at home or a sister or a husband ? |
| 24 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 25 | Yes , I have my husband back there and I have a sister and a brother . |
| 26 | Now I come to think of it , I do n't know much about her family at all — only that she 's got a sister and a mother somewhere in the States . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Amotju was so slim and tall , and you are built more like a warrior or a boatman than a scribe . ’ |
| 28 | We know that you have commanded a submarine and the Lieutenant-Commander was your first lieutenant . |
| 29 | I was at a jumble sale the other day and managed to buy a bucket and a coat . |
| 30 | An attendant from the tabernacle came along with a bucket and a sponge on a stick . |