Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We definitely do not want a Ferguson or a Philips . |
| 2 | Antwerp offers both the Renaissance architecture of a Bruges or a Ghent and the café culture of a Paris or a Barcelona . |
| 3 | Whether time permits or not , a detour should be made along the A.881 from Broadford to its terminus at Elgol , there going down to the colourful beach of pebbles and wild flowers and low cliffs : a beautiful foreground to a classic view , the finest in Britain , of the Black Cuillin across the wide waters of Loch Scavaig , a picture that would defeat a Constable or a Turner . |
| 4 | It does n't matter if you are 17–70 , drive an A30 or a Porsche , if you have a maximum no claim bonus or a string of unfortunate ‘ incidents ’ . |
| 5 | He suggested that the military man could contact either a Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart or a Brigadier Bambera for clarification of his position . |
| 6 | This is a S er Opal Senator or a Vauxhall Carlton with a Senator engine . |
| 7 | It is difficult whether you are in charge of Manchester United , Darlington or a Vauxhall Conference side . |
| 8 | But it was that or a Vauxhall . |
| 9 | Similarly Marxism is wrong in seeing the problems of modernity as exclusively the result of the capitalist system and attempting to account for the behaviour of a Stalin or a Khruschev , or a Mao Tse-tung or a Hoxha in terms of the cult of personality while at the same time ignoring the lack of moral constraints on the exercise of power in modern Marxist states . |
| 10 | If you 're that dedicated , you 'll know what to look for , but do n't expect to find oak panelling or a Grindling Gibbons carving . |
| 11 | Interesting results emerge when we place these ‘ players ’ — who may be individuals or organized groups — on a two-dimensional , nxn square lattice of ‘ patches ’ : each lattice-site is thus occupied either by a C or a D. In each round of our game ( or at each time step , or each generation ) , each patch-owner plays the game with its immediate neighbours . |
| 12 | However well-intentioned an Arnold or an Attlee or a Keynes or a Webb I suspect that the outcome can hardly be what they envisaged . |
| 13 | Spider Systems Ltd , Edinburgh has added the SpiderBrouter R360 to its line of bridge-routers , as part of its Boundary Routing system : the R360 offers IP and IPX routing with simultaneous bridging of all other protocols ; a Multilink feature enables load balancing across dual links to a SpiderBrouter R360 or a SpiderBridge R285 ; it will be out in April ; no word yet on price . |
| 14 | That applies to whatever kind of experience you 've been through , and whether you 're a Frances , a Peter , a Jenny , an Ian or a Trevor . |
| 15 | You ca n't buy a Fiesta for this kind of money , or a Metro or a Nova and even if you could , you would n't have half as much fun . |
| 16 | Antwerp offers both the Renaissance architecture of a Bruges or a Ghent and the café culture of a Paris or a Barcelona . |
| 17 | A seasoned view of Howard 's Way or a Cowes spectator may always have nurtured the dream of sailing a dinghy or crewing a yacht , but any old sea salt worth their grinder will tell you that it 's essential to learn the ropes first from a qualified sailing instructor . |
| 18 | But we can get a pizza or a McDonald 's . ’ |
| 19 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 20 | an enormous thing like a Rolls or a Daimler or a |
| 21 | He failed too , removed by assassination ; but the failure goes deeper : Macedon succeeded where the tyrants of Thessaly did not , precisely because the polis life in Thessaly , which on the economic level made possible the rise of a tyranny , prevented one man from imposing his authority permanently like an Archelaos or a Philip ; that was because on the political level the word polis implied what it had not implied in 650 BC : self-determination . |
| 22 | But between the caution of a Brierley or a Spalvins and the reckless aggression of Bond , there is a middle group of antipodean entrepreneurs who have borrowed heavily to expand but for whom the expansion has so far paid off . |
| 23 | Or a Nodac |
| 24 | You really need to raise the leadership to at least 7 for your Goblins and that means either an Orc Big Boss or a Goblin Big Boss with a magic item to increase his leadership such as the Crown of Command ( Ld 10 ) . |
| 25 | The audio connections are made in a similar way to that used for an audio dub , except that the source-machine is now a camcorder ( or a VCR ) . |
| 26 | ‘ The offer allows Sun-3 and Sun 386i users to move up to a Sparcstation IPX or a Sparcstation 2 , ’ he said , offering either a full system swap or a CPU exchange . |
| 27 | However little his lordship might think of Birmingham or a Birmingham man , he failed to get admission that night to the platform and was ‘ left swearing ’ . |
| 28 | Picks : either a Tortex 74 or a Clayton 74–77 . |
| 29 | In a clumsier pair of hands , the novel might have begun with an Elizabethan cartographer , say , or a Caroline poet , and died at birth of irretrievable archness . |
| 30 | After years as a good county player , he is suddenly timing the ball and shaping his shots with the elegance and effectiveness of a Graveney or a Gower . |