Example sentences of "a [adj] [coord] a " 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 Although a pleasant and a modest man , he was also a compulsive competitor — in pints , in sex , in stories , in sport , on the stage .
3 There will be a motley crew of teachers sharing the house — , myself , a Peruvian and a French Canadian .
4 3 Walk part of the Pennine Way on a eight and a half mile circular walk , north of Calder .
5 A tied and a true and a tidy wife —
6 In the sanctuary of Hera on Samos a long base ( fig. 31 ) bore , between a seated and a reclining figure , four standing , three certainly and perhaps the fourth too girls of varying age , each grasping her skirt in her right hand and holding it out , so that the folds curve and it is drawn tight against the left leg .
7 The contrast at the Congress between a vulgar and a relatively sophisticated aesthetic as exemplified in the difference of emphasis between Zhdanov and Bukharin is interesting to the degree that it has reverberations in the work of Nizan .
8 He was not blind to the dangers of ‘ a private and a public sector in higher education , both largely financed from the public purse ’ .
9 A fifty and a thirty , eighty pence today for you my love
10 A memorable and a proud day .
11 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 .
12 one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest .
13 On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways .
14 The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way .
15 So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman
16 You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health .
17 Be conscious of the fact that this is a tranquil and a peaceful place and that it belongs to you .
18 The table below contrasts a narrow and a wide tail :
19 Beyond that , de Gaulle 's policy failed both in a narrow and a broad sense .
20 Investing in people through the social services became both a respectable and a popular policy among governments .
21 Awards may be held on either a full-time or a part-time basis .
22 Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference .
23 In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle .
24 The Programme will have both a specific and a general relevance to current policy concerns .
25 They also go about with a galvanometer and a Geiger counter to measure ‘ sources of power ’ .
26 The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value .
27 He argued that ‘ equality of opportunity ’ has a weak and a strong sense .
28 With stable macro policies of either a monetary or a fiscal kind , rational expectations on behalf of economic agents mean that such agents fully appreciate the signals that trigger government policy and the prescriptions that follow , internalizing this into their behaviour .
29 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 .
30 Out of this splendid , imperishable lantern the deep eyes glared as though a stranger and a savage inhabited the dwelling an angel had abandoned .
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