Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a wacky feel but perhaps you have to see them live . |
| 2 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if it is a galactic pulsar or if it were formed by accretion-induced collapse , it may be young and the large magnetic field would not be as surprising . |
| 4 | He also denounced the murder of Hawkins as a hateful act but emphasized that " all of Bensonhurst did not commit this crime " and that it was essential to " categorically reject the notion of group guilt " . |
| 5 | The screenplay focuses on the incongruous and interdependent friendship between a dimwitted stud and a petty con man . |
| 6 | Duke William could claim that he was going to oust a perjured usurper and also to remove from the see of Canterbury an archbishop not recognized in Rome . |
| 7 | Two loyal members of the Hunt , a hawk-faced lady and a meeker male partner , his coat a warm flame in the dark crevice where they sat , took their tickets , and money from Dada , and handed programmes , a Hunt button engraved on their backs and a tiny pencil attached to them by a red string . |
| 8 | Both would be used until such a time as South Africa negotiated a non-racial democracy and adopted a new flag and anthem . |
| 9 | With BCM delegates reserving their position , the remaining delegates adopted the Harare declaration and further resolved to call for a ‘ constituent assembly , established on a non-racial basis and representing all the people of South Africa , to draw up a new constitution for our country ’ . |
| 10 | The chapel was only a single-storey affair and for anniversaries and other big events they used to make extra seats by placing bars of wood between one seat and the next . |
| 11 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 12 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 13 | However , Ruby had a resilient nature and Rain had a plan . |
| 14 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 15 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 16 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 17 | Tom Selleck as King Ferdinand of Spain is a real hoot — he ca n't decide whether to play him as a moody Continental or haughty monarch , so what we get is a cross between Magnum and Don Juan with an accent that hovers between Malibu and Basingstoke . |
| 18 | I receive it with a grateful heart and let the light enter into me , until I am light . |
| 19 | Deafened by meningitis at the age of five , he , like John Young , is a Scot , married to a deaf wife and father of a hearing daughter . |
| 20 | Emphasis in the denudation chronology of southeast England centred upon drainage evolution and upon erosion surfaces which were later described as planation surfaces ; relied upon interpretations based upon morphological evidence and information from fragmentary deposits ; and produced a model which involved early Tertiary planation , mid Tertiary uplift , late Tertiary planation , early Quaternary planation by a Calabrian shoreline and subsequent valley development during Quaternary sea levels at successively lower altitudes . |
| 21 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 22 | This is more easily done when landing in an unfamiliar place , particularly if it is in a hilly area and means landing on an uphill slope . |
| 23 | This produces an interference pattern which is converted to a periodic change in voltage by means of a light-emitting diode and a photodetector . |
| 24 | They came with their spouses , friends and children for a historic stroll and perhaps some shopping . |
| 25 | In the nine years between the previous attempt at a historic compromise and this one Poland saw the virtual collapse of the party , the imposition of martial law , the banning of Solidarity and relentless economic misery . |
| 26 | ‘ It 'd be a historic showdown and I 'd love to take part in it . |
| 27 | This is unfair , for it is a historic city and once in a while something does happen . |
| 28 | Southmoorhenge has n't yet been listed as a historic monument and no Americans have been spotted having their pictures taken next to it , but it 's early days . |
| 29 | They attribute this to an increased likelihood of exposure to a leukaemogenic virus or viruses . |
| 30 | Instruction in methods for finding information is most likely to be successful if provided at a point when students are working on a non-library project or course which requires a literature search . |