Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] a [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The very brief account she gave now was selective — it referred to Anna but not to Anna 's story ; Rome was a place of origin ; there was no mention of a Mena or a Mr James ( Simon she could not entirely subdue ) , the prince was a bare name .
2 Personally I would have preferred a review of what software exists , and whether I require access to a PC or a Cray supercomputer .
3 It had a special phone number , was equipped with a computer and was permanently manned by a PC or a WPC .
4 And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three
5 In theatrical conditions ( whether in an Avignon stone-quarry or a Zurich boathouse ) the production 's basic ingredients of earth , fire and water acquired both a real and symbolic property : a standing-pool started as the source of creation and ended , by the time of the cosmic conflict , as a mud-caked river through which warriors heedlessly splashed .
6 It was one of the reasons that earlier discussions with Thames Television fell through — though Blackeyes was always designed as a movie or a BBC series .
7 That it should require a lid painting at all suggests that it can not have been an English instrument or a Ruckers , and , if its shape is drawn as carefully as the presence of an accompanying scale would indicate , the rather blunt double curve of the bentside would suggest one of the Hamburg makers .
8 A famous Bun penny in mint condition or a King Henry II penny sell for around £50 .
9 A famous Bun penny in mint condition or a King Henry II penny sell for around £50 .
10 A famous Bun penny in mint condition or a King Henry II penny sell for around £50 .
11 Steven Morrissey was a bar room intellectual and a New York Dolls fan .
12 A porsche and a BMW were sold yesterday for up to thirty thousand pounds .
13 Georgii Shakhnazarov , head of the Soviet political science association and a Gorbachev adviser , went still further in a series of articles on the ‘ new model of socialism ’ in the party theoretical journal Kommunist .
14 Although there is a small case of sketches juxtaposed with finished products ( a Richard Meier key ring and a Hans Hollein wristwatch ) , it is frustrating that larger objects in the Met 's collection ( from an 1879 Tiffany mixed-metal salver and a Woodstock cabinet made at Byrdcliffe Colony around 1904 , to 1988 chairs by Emilio Ambasz and George Ranalli and a Morison Cousins prototype ‘ Soup to Nuts ’ bowl for Tupperware ) could not have also been included beside their preparatory drawings .
15 Inspired by the arrival of The Beatles to play the guitar , he bought a cheap Harmony electric and a Kalamazoo amp and dabbled for a few years before joining a high school covers band , playing soul , rock and a good deal of Hendrix .
16 He was also a past president pf Perth racecourse and a Perth district committee member of the Scottish Veterans ' Garden City Association .
17 The group , who have an active Saturday club and a Monday Club for the blind and partly-sighted , has their mini-coach stolen when it was on loan to another charitable organisation , and they were left with a deficit of £5,500 when the insurance was settled .
18 ‘ But the alternative , it was argued , was a growing risk of tragedy and a Britain of ‘ vertical deserts ’ where climbers would ultimately be banned from climbing altogether . ’
19 Aleksandur Staliyski , a lawyer and a UDF Assembly member , replaced Dimitur Ludzhev as Defence Minister .
20 He was a crossword fiend , an acrostic fanatic , an inveterate Amateur etymologist and a Berlitz blitzer on new tongues .
21 A hundred runners-up will each receive a pack of Tetley Tea and a Tetley Teafolk biscuit tin .
22 If we are going to start looking into where money has gone , let us examine how it was that the right hon. Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) had a job for two months and a £100,000 pay-off and a Mercedes for a penny .
23 He was dressed in traditional subfusc brown with a ragged sweater and a Viyella check shirt that his father must have handed down to him , and addressed Jack as if the status of professional golfers had not changed since the thirties .
24 editor of the Eatanswill Independent , a fire-eater and a Buff ( Whig ) , whose opinions so inflame his rival Pott , editor of the Blue ( Tory ) Eatanswill Gazette , that they eventually come to blows .
25 Miss Asher 's cakes — designs include a bottle of champagne , a Lotus racing car and a Nintendo Game Boy — first went into about 20 stores in the south of England in September .
26 Deliberate destruction of the environment in times of war should be declared a war crime and a Geneva Convention on the protection of nature in times of war should be drawn up as a matter of urgency .
27 Why the hell could n't she turn up in a Barbour , a headscarf and a Volvo like everyone else 's mother ?
28 The crash , involving a VW camper and a Volvo car , happened on the A168 at Topcliffe .
29 AN EVERTON fan and a Liverpool fan put aside their soccer rivalry when they scooped £250,000 on Littlewoods pools .
30 She began at Glasgow School of Art in 1920 , via a council scholarship and a Carnegie bursary worth £8 .
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