Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 2 | The country has to decide whether higher education is not only a private good but a public good . |
| 3 | In Fig. 11–9 are illustrated the preferences of the median voter over a private good and the local public good . |
| 4 | When there is a head , as in the following example : in a little less than an hour |
| 5 | Vital detective work by scientists based at Harwell has linked radon gas with a possible two and a half thousand lung cancer deaths . |
| 6 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 8 | It is perfectly correct that , if you compare a group of Broca 's aphasics with a control group and measure ( a ) rate of spontaneous speech ; ( b ) number of function words used ; ( c ) number of prefixes and suffixes used ; ( d ) number of verbs used ; ( e ) complexity of grammatical structure ; and ( f ) accuracy of pronunciation , you will find that the Broca 's aphasics have a lower mean than the control group on all six measures . |
| 9 | Mungo sensed that he was either a complete phoney or a principal player in the village drama . |
| 10 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 11 | They are worth a great deal even today , because of the familiar insinuations that Eliot was as much a political reactionary as a religious bigot . |
| 12 | I just ordered a forty one and a forty six |
| 13 | It would not matter that the resident were a foreign national or a foreign company , so long as they were resident , were located in the UK and the transaction were in sterling , it would constitute domestic banking . |
| 14 | ‘ Unfortunately , you do n't win any prizes for a fast-finishing seventh and a race like the Ebor does n't come round every day , ’ he said . |
| 15 | As Roth ( 1974 ) points out , the notion that only professions have subcultures is negated by the ‘ distinct and pervasive patterns of occupational life ’ found amongst dockers , seamen , miners , etc. ; prostitutes also claim that their service is a social good and a community service ; a lack of demarcation of work and leisure is equally true of policemen as of dockers ; and so on . |
| 16 | But the community should care for the school because it is a social good and the property of the community . |
| 17 | IBM is now making between a few hundred and a few thousand PowerPC 601s a month in Vermont . |
| 18 | A few hundred or a few thousand farmers might oppose a return to downland because it would mean lower profits . |
| 19 | A British orderly and a Polish civilian were pumping filth from one of the lavatories into a long cylindrical cart . |
| 20 | The roaring bedlam of the tide 's initial onslaught was being replaced by a menacing quiet as the deep black water sucked and heaved around the boulders . |
| 21 | They creep in early at four and a half thousand but the significant one is at five thousand . |
| 22 | There were six small bodies in all , three in the Thames near King 's Meadow , another in the Kennet , and a further two that the police found when they dragged a local pond called Clapper 's Pool . |
| 23 | Central City and Culture Vulture dead-heated for third , a further two and a half lengths away but neither looked like troubling Musicale . |
| 24 | Climbing in a pure alpine style , without additional support , they spent six days climbing the Kishofer route on the Diamir face , and a further two and a half days to descend . |
| 25 | A prisoner who threw boiling water over a fellow inmate has been jailed for a further three and a half years . |
| 26 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
| 27 | It 's hoped to attract a top professional and a very big money tournament . |
| 28 | John Lukic is a top professional and the best goalkeeper I 've ever played with . ’ |
| 29 | The ecologists ' leader Brice Lalonde , who has called for a broad-based ‘ Democratic Party ’ , welcomed Mr Rocard 's speech as the first admission by a top Socialist that the party was finished . |
| 30 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |