Example sentences of "an [adj] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intending participants were asked to provide either an extended abstract or a position paper for the workshop , and a number of these were selected for presentation . |
| 2 | In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly . |
| 3 | Around the world , more than ten million infants die each year , and an additional four and a half million from the same birth cohort will die as a toddler or young child before reaching the age of five years . |
| 4 | An extra four and a half million pounds is to be spent on home care schemes . |
| 5 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |
| 6 | The UK government is concerned about the number of deaths caused by careless driving while unfit because of excessive alcohol consumption , and a recent White Paper , The Road User and the Law , recommends among other things , that this offence should carry obligatory disqualification from driving for at least 2 years , an unlimited fine and a maximum penalty of 5 years ' imprisonment ( Lowry , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Atheism for Marxism is not an optional extra or a mere facet but the very essence of it . |
| 8 | The principle of holidays with pay had been extended to an estimated million and a half manual workers in Britain by the beginning of the 1920s , but the economic recession of that decade meant that this figure remained relatively static until the late 1930s . |
| 9 | For a Government with a fifty billion pound deficit to tackle it 's a tempting target for VAT , bringing in an estimated two and a quarter billion pounds . |
| 10 | Whether in an Elizabethan miniature or a Roman bust , the inclusion of initials establishes a tension between the conceptual and the formal aspects of the image . |
| 11 | Captain Dibble had previously proved himself a cut above the average novice when occupying the runner-up berth behind crack chaser Remittance Man over an inadequate two and a half miles at Newbury , and a promising Ascot second to Latent Talent last month should put him spot-on for this . |
| 12 | Another case involved a collision in mid-air between an Iberian DC-9 and a Spantax Convair Coronado over Nantes in France , in which the great majority of the passengers in the DC-9 were British . |
| 13 | In an official letter to Bruce Morrison , an Irish American and a former congressman , the President-elect has demanded that the British Government should introduce more effective safeguards against what he calls ‘ the wanton use of lethal force ’ by the security forces . |
| 14 | He had already begun publishing on electromagnetism , and in a paper of 1847 he suggested an analogy between an incompressible solid and a magnetic field . |
| 15 | How to be an existentialist intact and a Whitmanite continuously merging . |
| 16 | After waking the guestmaster by tolling the abbey gate bell , Corbett was greeted by an anxious Prior and a solicitous Ranulf . |