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 | This was an embattled and a battling faith . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 8 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 9 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |
| 10 | However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A book is allocated to an individual or a project leader for team use . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She is not an incompetent but a degenerate . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 … ‘ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was neither an easy nor a tolerant companion . |
| 19 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | According to Moscovici , this reorientation would transform the discipline into ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( 1984 : 948 ) |
| 26 | Moscovici ( 1984 ) has claimed that social psychology should become ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( p. 984 ) . |
| 27 | This illustrates another problem , that the only effective difference between an interactive and a redundant modular system is the degree of disruption produced by damage to a single component . |
| 28 | We are clued into Artistic seriousness by an arabesque or a beaten jump , into Moral seriousness by a hungry contraction or protracted lift . |
| 29 | Other victims were an English tourist in March 1989 , an Austrian journalist in April , and an Australian and a New Zealander in December , while two West German tourists disappeared in May after being forced off a bus in the south of the country . |
| 30 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |