Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 2 | Moreover , when they do occur they are more often allowed to operate in territories ( in both a spatial and a policy sense ) in which others ' intervention is limited . |
| 3 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 4 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 5 | So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings . |
| 6 | Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 8 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 9 | But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour . |
| 10 | If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him ! |
| 11 | But it was an extension that in the first instance was of greatest benefit to the middle classes , who were , in both a social and a transportation sense , the mobile classes . |
| 12 | More generally , it seems that there are many cases where prenominal adjectives express occasion values , and not a few where a characteristic , in his sense , is expressed by a postnominal adjective . |
| 13 | He had in mind a Brookner , a Lively or a Colegate ; a Pym ( Barbara , not Francis ) would be a comfort ; anything but Martin Amis . |
| 14 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 15 | Have you got a couple of settings on yours is it a high and a low ? |
| 16 | She said Naomi appeared to live in a world of her own and was either on a high or a low , adding : ‘ She was a lovely child . ’ |
| 17 | Lovely , now me , I 'm an ex-M A T S A member , I 'm in the security industry , at the moment I have n't got a section , so what am I a Bosnian , a Serbian or a Croatian I do n't know . |
| 18 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 19 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 20 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 21 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 22 | He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian . |
| 23 | Erm , you know , we all deal with people , who either on a personal or a business level who we genuinely feel the world would be a better place without . |
| 24 | Asked , when Our Lady of Finchley was still in her niche , all candles blazing , if he were a Thatcherite or a liberal , he modestly admitted to being a liberal . |
| 25 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 26 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 27 | Surfing was not just ‘ wave-sliding ’ ( as he'enalu was typically translated ) : it was a flowing and a fleeing ; it was communing with yourself and talking with others ; it was regeneration and the pursuit of truth . |
| 28 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 29 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
| 30 | Lamb rampaged to 50 with a six and a pull for four in the same Su'a over . |