Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their lack of other skills or a decent education often pushed them into routine manual labour , though jobs within football did increase between the wars . |
| 32 | FEW PLACES have such a gentle and equable climate that animals living there never need seek shelter ; and few animals are so well-armed that they do not welcome somewhere to hide from their enemies or a safe nursery for their young . |
| 33 | Well most of them they saying are six contracts , now they say , say , six month contract or eight month contract or a three month contract , but I just had a couple that were like oh they could be a |
| 34 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 35 | Some sort of coven or a secret society , and I believe they are all party to it . |
| 36 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |
| 37 | How do you inform parents that the overnight heavy snow storm or a broken boiler is going to unexpectedly close the school for the day ? |
| 38 | As Sun Tzu himself had said , the reason why an enlightened prince or a wise general triumphed over their enemies whenever they moved why their achievements surpassed those of ordinary men — was foreknowledge . |
| 39 | A rising or a falling tone is quite easy to identify , whether it falls on a single syllable or extends over more syllables in the case of a tonic syllable followed by a tail . |
| 40 | His perversity is plain and if the whole world demands he now signs a striker or a central defender to save his team from relegation , he will not . |
| 41 | The first analytic conception understands the state as a machine controlled by an external elite ( whether an elected political elite or a non-accountable business — social elite ) . |
| 42 | There may be a gain in the number of children at the school but this could well have happened through factors such as population change or a new housing development that are totally unconnected to the work on raising the school 's visibility and image . |
| 43 | Perhaps this show is reinforced by miming a stumble or a mindless struggle with the door on leaving yet again . |
| 44 | But it is more than science fiction or a mathematical trick . |
| 45 | Escapism is n't just limited to dipping into science fiction or a romantic novel . |
| 46 | This may be an acceptable technique for reading science fiction or a romantic novel , but for the study of important texts it is not only inappropriate , but also damaging to study and uneconomic of time . |
| 47 | Making 99 per cent of a journey safe and convenient by foot or bike is futile if the remaining one per cent contains a dangerous road crossing or a threatening subway . |
| 48 | The establishment of local contacts or a local office is a useful step in developing an exploration programme in an area as tracing , and negotiating with , land and mineral rights owners may sometimes be time consuming . |
| 49 | If a person wishes to have the registration of a judgment noted because the judgment has been satisfied , the party should make a request in writing to the district judge of the county court supported by confirmation from the creditor or a written statement that this was requested and not provided . |
| 50 | The starting-point is not a theoretical insight or a research finding or a recommended line of approach but what the teacher finds problematic , what issues are from her point of view in need of clarification and resolution . |
| 51 | A further 14 per cent of pupils gave answers suggesting that they thought that the left hand end of the line represented either 0 or I. Whether this is due to a conceptual difficulty or a casual approach was not established . |
| 52 | Season the dish to taste and serve immediately with freshly cooked vegetables or a green salad . |
| 53 | It is as if such mimicry rips the word away from its object , disunifies the two , shows that a given straightforward generic word — epic or tragic — is one-sided , bounded , incapable of exhausting the object ; the process of parodying forces us to experience those sides of the object that are not otherwise included in a given genre or a given style . |
| 54 | Additionally , confidence can be useful for certain types of secrets for which other rights are inappropriate such as the recipe for Coca-Cola or a secret research technique or industrial process . |
| 55 | She could be a nuisance : she would remind his father that his exams or a dental appointment were due , or comment adversely on the state of his room . |
| 56 | ‘ Well , you do n't get twelve years for a busted jaw or a black eye . |
| 57 | But in Stephen Jameson 's performance he looks like Beckett 's Pozzo or a Daily Worker cartoon of a bloated capitalist : bounced around the stage at one point like a rubber doll , he becomes a figure from a comedy of humours rather than a semi-Chekhovian fantasia . |
| 58 | We recognise that quality is important to you , so in-depth inspections are being carried out now to identify those places which take a pride in their higher standards — be it a small B&B or a large hotel . |
| 59 | Was there a high level or a low level of class conflict during the inter-war years ? |
| 60 | It is hard to understand why a horse will try to run away from a pain caused by a bit or a rough hand , but the fact is that they do . |