Example sentences of "an [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bungay is a , is an historic and a delightful town and one that qualifies on environmental ground alone for a bypass , I refer to paper T one , erm which is er , paper of the ninth of January nineteen ninety two , and if you refer to little B , seven , five bypasses for towns and villages where there is serious and environmental intrusion by through traffic . |
| 2 | The silent contingent approached a buffalo robe laid between the lines where Miles , Howard , Wood , two more officers , interpreter Arthur Chapman , an orderly and a mounted courier waited . |
| 3 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Not compared with Ricky , ’ snapped Perdita , ‘ and they all think Drew 's absolutely marvellous , because he 's an eight and a Falklands hero and all . |
| 5 | We believe that the migration rates that should be used should be a three year average rather than an eight or a ten year average . |
| 6 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 7 | This was an embattled and a battling faith . |
| 8 | The current MP Paul Marland , who won the eighty seven election by an eleven and a half thousand majority , is unperturbed by Mr Kinnock 's predictions . |
| 9 | I have already suggested ( p. 93 ) that tone and clicker ( at least when presented simultaneously ) might interact perceptually in a way that an auditory and a visual stimulus do not . |
| 10 | The second dimension used three variables : whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed ; whether the legislature has one or two ( strong ) chambers ; and whether there is an unwritten or a written , rigid constitution . |
| 11 | In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 12 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 13 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 14 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |
| 15 | However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 . |
| 16 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 17 | Each of these overlapped with the other ; each depended on the other for either illustration , evidence , or knowledge , and each reinforced the other , providing both an individual and a collective logic and coherence . |
| 18 | A book is allocated to an individual or a project leader for team use . |
| 19 | The effect of both these procedures is that the defaulting party has 21 days in which to make the payment , following which the party making the demand can present a bankruptcy petition against an individual or a winding-up petition against a company . |
| 20 | She is not an incompetent but a degenerate . |
| 21 | ‘ they make no outcries and exclamations in the departure of the soul ; and that they make no judgement concerning the dying person by his dying quietly or violently , with comfort or without , with great fears or a cheerful confidence , with sense or without , like a lion or like a lamb , with convulsions or semblances of great pain or like an expiring and a spent candle ; for these happen to all men without rule … ‘ |
| 22 | There is evidence that some species of trichonemes may become resistant to benzimidazole compounds and to avoid this it is suggested that these should be alternated with chemically unrelated anthelmintics on an annual or a six-monthly basis . |
| 23 | He was neither an easy nor a tolerant companion . |
| 24 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 25 | His newest toy , a Toyota Land Cruiser with Gumbo Monster Mudder tyres so big that oxygen is required when you reach your seat , has CB , a radio telephone , an anenometer and a Loran radar set fixed in to transmitters on Greenland , Iceland and Norway . |
| 26 | It would be a tragedy if the use of violence or any confusion introduced by irregular elements on the picket lines were to divide and deflect the support given by responsible trade unionists all over the country aimed at achieving an early and a peaceful solution to this problem . |
| 27 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 28 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 29 | Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late . |
| 30 | The central bank announced that a two-tier exchange rate system would be in operation as from Feb. 19 , 1990 , comprising an official and a market exchange rate . |