Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case there is mains electricity & a good water supply . |
| 2 | The vertex passes through O and the focus is on the y axis at & a /4 ; . |
| 3 | he got a ‘ D ’ for computing , & a near-miss ( fail ) in Physics . |
| 4 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 5 | So no rainforests & a huge new disease crop ! |
| 6 | THREE & A HALF MINUTES , Bishop 's Stortford-based snarling guitar four-piece , follow their recent support slots alongside Sultans Of Ping FC with dates at |
| 7 | All guests of Amsterdam Travel Service staying for four nights or more are invited for a welcome drink & a three course dinner ( drinks with meal are extra ) in one of the Karena Hotel restaurants in Amsterdam . |
| 8 | All employees or a representative sample answered the questionnaire . |
| 9 | Now , is that a pressure group or a representative group ? |
| 10 | How d' you think you 're going to feel , Joey , when we come face to face with a herd of elephant or a tawny tiger out there ? " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It occurs when a writer applies a name or a descriptive term to an object to which it is not literally applicable ; when a word is carried over from its normal use to a new use . |
| 13 | He does note , in the letter to Zasulich , Morgan 's hope for a future society , which would abandon the obsession with private property , but at the same time he makes it clear that he rightly does not consider Morgan a socialist or a revolutionary . |
| 14 | We describe as weird , uncanny or spectacular , the resemblance of , say , a leaf insect to a leaf or a praying mantis to a cluster of pink flowers . |
| 15 | Italian-style cold drinks , such as iced coffee granita or a zingy blend of fresh fruit juices and grenadine , are also worth exploring . |
| 16 | Fossil plants are of great use in plotting the many shifts of climate that happened during the Tertiary : a humid-tropical flora may be found in what is now an arid region , or a warm-climate flora may be found in an area that is now decidedly cool . |
| 17 | You might be mad to wear one but , whether it 's a creation for Ascot or a woolly pull-on number , there 's a hat to top off any outfit |
| 18 | I have the impression of an enemy general , scanning our lines through his field-glasses , or a hardened housebreaker , openly searching for a point of entry . |
| 19 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 20 | The use of a particular language does not necessarily coincide either with a group that claims common descent , or a geographical area or what is supposedly a culture . |
| 21 | Each division controls the operations of a fairly self-contained part of the organization 's activities ( for example , a particular product line , or a geographical area ) . |
| 22 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 23 | This causes the beam to bend and the displacement is measured by means of a strain gauge or a differential transformer . |
| 24 | Ten years earlier Unwin had faced the alternative to London 's outward spread : either a continuous zone of free entry at varying degrees of density , its continuity broken by areas of public open space ; or a continuous green background as the setting for occasional development . |
| 25 | Almost all aquatic plants with floating leaves dislike turbulent water or a continuous fine spray on their foliage , so any moving-water feature that is envisaged should be considered for one end of the pool and out of the direct line of choice plants like waterlilies . |
| 26 | Distillation may be carried out in either a batch process , using a pot still , or a continuous process , using a patent or Coffey still . |
| 27 | The question of which form of BSL is to be attained , whether it is an English-based form or a deaf form , remains to be established . |
| 28 | How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered ? |
| 29 | Constructive knowledge , which is said to exist were the accused ought to have realised that certain circumstances prevail and has failed to make the enquires a reasonable person would have made , is not applicable since ‘ knowingly ’ connotes either intention or a subjective awareness of the relevant facts . |
| 30 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |