Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 2 | I think , one of the most important things is finding a trusting friend or a member of family so that you can then try express some of the feelings so that you 're in a better position erm , to try and explain the problem . |
| 3 | The need for more staff time to organize training , or a member of staff specifically employed to organize/co-ordinate training , was mentioned by over a quarter of all authorities ( see Table 25 ) : |
| 4 | You could n't get a cup of tea or a cup of coffee anywhere . |
| 5 | It follows that if there is a small bald patch ( or a patch with grooves less than 1.6 mm deep ) 4 cm in diameter on a tread width of 12 cm an offence is committed for 4 cm is more than a quarter of the 12 cm width of tread . |
| 6 | If I were a head teacher or a chair of governors now , I would use quite blatantly the annual meeting and the annual report as ways of sounding the loudest and brightest clarion calls about my school 's performance and achievements … |
| 7 | These cheese buns have a rich filling and a crisp crust , which are just right with a cup of coffee at breakfast or a glass of wine later in the day . |
| 8 | There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant . |
| 9 | And waits for this one from Tufnell , pushes forward , and it 's hit on his pad outside the off stump possibly , loud appeals from everybody , there 's a rather high-pitched vocals , I think we 've got some young people in or a lot of ladies today . |
| 10 | For this general practitioners are rewarded with an income below the national average and a level of frustration much above it . |
| 11 | As Charles stood in his doorway and looked around , he must have seen a bustle of activity and a variety of dwellings only possible before the days of clinical town planning . |
| 12 | A BOY yesterday told how he had developed dizzy spells and a craving for chocolate soon after a nurse accused of murdering four children came to live at his home . |
| 13 | The Redpath brothers had a field day , sharing five of the six tries and a contribution to Melrose now and in the future could hold the vital key to unlock even more championship trophies . |
| 14 | In the meantime , Michael is happy with a mattress on the gallery floor and a desk for homework below . |
| 15 | for example any diagnostic task can be aided by a taxonomy of symptoms and a taxonomy of causes together with connections between them . |
| 16 | There was only birdsong , and a splashing of water somewhere off in the woods . |
| 17 | He thought about it though and decided that he could not live on willpower alone so he went on with his degree then joined a very mundane law practice with poor promotion prospects and a history of doing more ‘ legal aid ’ cases than ones where the client actually paid . |
| 18 | Amis 's Lucky Jim is something other ; so is William Cooper 's Struggles of Albert Woods ( 1952 ) , written in slapstick vein by a follower of Snow 's ; so is Angus Wilson 's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( 1956 ) and a fistful of novels soon after by David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury , both of them professors of English in civic universities . |
| 19 | Fans shouted ‘ cut ’ as the star started describing an earlier film , Witness , as exciting and a must for cinemagoers instead of praising his latest blockbuster . |
| 20 | They want their pieces of silver and a crown of thorns too . |
| 21 | Not that it was much of a one then : discovery would have meant at the most punishment and a diatribe against immigrants generally , with the chief worry , what contagion she might have picked up . |
| 22 | In fact , she would have ideally wanted them to spend the next day and a half in bed together , and hang the consequences . |
| 23 | The uprating , like its predecessors , betrays a Department on autopilot — a Department and a Secretary of State both suffering from advanced anaemia . |
| 24 | Grobbelaar , 35 , who has won more medals than any other goalkeeper , is currently on loan to Second division Stoke and a return to Merseyside now looks highly unlikely . |
| 25 | The Swansea and Neath association announced its social respectability in its president , the Marquess of Bute , and a roster of vice-presidents entirely aristocratic , gentry , and wealthy businessman in character . |
| 26 | He was , however , a preacher and a man of goodwill rather than a leader and man of action so that a change of leadership had become desirable when he retired . |
| 27 | With its ubiquitous Dionysus and Apollo and a mass of imagery besides , the language has a high coloration and a strong emotional charge . |
| 28 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 29 | ‘ Right , tea and a couple of biscuits now , and supper later . ’ |
| 30 | And a couple of girls so they got the message and then the they moved off down towar down the bottom . |