Example sentences of "the [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , today the standard colour is black-and-white pied and indeed many have Friesian blood but are much smaller , shorter and more compact than the Friesian and a great deal hardier . |
| 2 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 3 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 4 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 5 | Now if I could just remind you of what 's happened at the Lyndford Haven er er , Synod , last March erm , the Financial Committee have suggested that we should go for a target of five hundred and ten thousand but er , this is we are not gon na be able to even start looking at the eleven and a half thousand if if er all the provinces do it for months and more and we , I think very bravely or foolishly whatever way you li , look at it , proposed that we should got to five hundred and forty thousand and it looks as thought we 're gon na end up certainly nearer to five ten than five forty . |
| 6 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 7 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 8 | To the right and a ten by eight to the left and then they went up a grade and they drove up same on both . |
| 9 | The summer timetable saw very little change at the Western end of the Cambrian but a notable addition was an 07:00 Newtown to Birmingham service each weekday using stock and crews brought out a a passenger service from Salop . |
| 10 | Frame 's international standing was rewarded with a Vice-Presidency of the World Federation of the Deaf and a place on its elected Bureau . |
| 11 | Our first step in illustrating interval harmony using the whole chromatic octave will be to write a succession of consonances in two parts : This succession of six two-part chords uses the total-chromatic and a variety of consonances , though not the 4th and major 6th . |
| 12 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
| 13 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 14 | For nearly 3 years they 've made the 2 and a half mile trip from their temporary classrooms back to their homes . |
| 15 | A 170mm unit is used in the 415 and a 200mm in the 425 . |
| 16 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 17 | Events in the race itself summon up less pious images , for this running of the world 's greatest Classic saw a brawling match up the straight and a sensational disqualification which to many smelled of more than one personal vendetta . |
| 18 | Author of Physician takes his Cole family generations later into the 1800s and a turbulent America . |
| 19 | Despite sore feet and blisters , they completed the 26 and a bit miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 20 | The basic aim was to create a customs union , with free and equal competition among the Six and a ‘ common external tariff ’ against the rest of the world . |
| 21 | The time taken by the cyclist for the six and a half mile journey from Currie to the City Chambers was thirty minutes , making an average speed of 13 mph . |
| 22 | The accused and a couple of friends staged a false robbery to get the money from the victim . |
| 23 | Circumstances which may lead to chronic grief or clinging , for instance , included a previous ambivalent relationship with the deceased or a previous relationship in which the survivor felt either inferior or insecure . |
| 24 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 25 | A. V. Dicey 's Law and Public Opinion in England , first published in 1905 with a second edition in 1914 , was a distinguished lawyer 's analysis of the growth of ‘ state collectivisim ’ since the 1870s and a warning ( more insistent in the 1914 edition , after the Liberal reforms ) that these developments were incompatible with democracy . |
| 26 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 27 | Moz was a four-year old stallion who for most of his life , the three and a half years following weaning , had been kept in a small yard measuring no more than 20 x 20ft ( 6 X 6m ) . |
| 28 | In only its third year of operating the three and a half mile branch between Bodmin General and Bodmin Parkway , the B & W has established itself as a major leisure attraction and is building a reputation as one of the more progressive preserved railways in the country . |
| 29 | The three and a half mile line running between Hammersmith and Riddings Junction with intermediate stations at Butterley and Swanwick Junction was originally opened in 1875 and acquired by the Midland at a later date . |
| 30 | In the three and a half years between his abdication and the summer of Dunkirk , King Edward , had he remained on the Throne , might have developed differently . |