Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 2 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |
| 3 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 4 | They were also Indian or Pakistani , not black or white or a mixture . |
| 5 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 6 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 7 | National Certificate Modules are delivered in schools , further education colleges and other approved centres throughout Scotland and because they are separate units in their own right , modules can be taken in a variety of ways to accommodate the circumstances of the individual — full-time , part-time , distance or open-learning or a combination of these . |
| 8 | Surrounded by the commercial tat of a failed sexual ‘ revolution ’ , Punk Rock threw sex back into the face of society in an apocalyptic vision ; as the name Sex Pistols made clear , sex here was not a means to pleasure , or self-discovery but a weapon : ‘ 'It 's the only way to smash the wretched civilisation . ’ |
| 9 | Copious salivation ; often with a metallic taste or sweet or salty and a sense of dryness with intense thirst sometimes . |
| 10 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |
| 11 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |
| 12 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 13 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 14 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 15 | And they use words like ‘ potto ’ , ‘ cellaro ’ , and ‘ brosha ’ — which are neither Italian nor English but a combination of the two . |
| 16 | He explained his position in an article , ‘ Sukarno by Himself ’ , which appeared in June 1941 : ‘ There are men who say Sukarno is a nationalist ; others say he is no longer a nationalist but a Muslim ; and others again say he is neither nationalist nor Muslim but a Marxist . |
| 17 | At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure . |
| 18 | But the difference is that all but a handful are still towns . |
| 19 | Well , I think I ca n't stretch the secretary 's report much longer than one and a half |
| 20 | Pocket sprung mattresses can cope with weight differences of up to four stone , but if you and your partner 's weight differs by more than four and a half stone ( 30kg ) your best bet is a pair of ‘ zip-and-link ’ mattresses . |
| 21 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 22 | How would they shake down in such a confined space with what amounted to more than two and a half ? |
| 23 | And I 've seen when getting corn er just right er dressed for the mill , I 've seen us er doing with a spade and that and a tub . |
| 24 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 25 | And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers . |
| 26 | When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them . |
| 27 | So Peter Yeo had to look reassuring and solid and a bit older , while Timothy Hutton could probably have come to work in striped organza without losing a single client . |
| 28 | So , and eight and a half for that one . |
| 29 | The director whose most famous films include the and Eight and a Half will be buried in the family crypt in his home town of Rimini . |
| 30 | An argument apparently broke out during these talks , and fierce fighting ensued in which Doe was shot and wounded and a total of 64 men , mostly from Doe 's contingent , were believed to have been killed . |