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

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1 R 2 denotes RR which is a 180° turn and R 3 denotes RRR , also written R — 1 or R ′ , denoting a 270° turn clockwise or a 90° turn anticlockwise .
2 It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity .
3 Whether you 're a sales assistant or a customer , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the product on sale .
4 Instead of seeking to contain royal power they were preoccupied with gaining the favour of the Grand Prince , or control of the government when the monarch was personally weak or a minor .
5 I was either being kerb-crawled or a bunch of Quo fans were after the jacket .
6 Be ready to open the airbrakes fully as it touches down to stop any bouncing or a gust lifting the glider into the air again .
7 And if I ca n't , can I begin to entertain the thought that teaching may not be for me ( as a substantial number of new teachers do ) without feeling guilty or a failure ?
8 Lovely , now me , I 'm an ex-M A T S A member , I 'm in the security industry , at the moment I have n't got a section , so what am I a Bosnian , a Serbian or a Croatian I do n't know .
9 She said Naomi appeared to live in a world of her own and was either on a high or a low , adding : ‘ She was a lovely child . ’
10 Under a joint project with the Saudi Arabian Banking Industry , Salisbury , Wiltshire-based Racal-Transcom Ltd is to supply the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a credit-debit card payment system based on its TCL200 terminals ; the specially customised terminals can print receipts in Arabic , English or a mix of the two and will also use personal identification codes for added security ; over 1,000 terminals will be installed in shops this year with a target of 10,000 terminals aimed for by the end of 1995 ; no value for the order was disclosed .
11 A local authority may therefore bring proceedings : ( i ) to prevent parents from removing a child accommodated by the local authority under voluntary arrangements where a return home is likely to harm the child significantly ; ( ii ) to protect a child who has been significantly harmed in the past where this is likely to happen again because , for example , a parent is known to abuse in certain recurring circumstances ; ( iii ) to protect a child who has never been harmed where the family history clearly places him at risk , eg a new born or a child reaching an age at which other children in the family have been harmed .
12 He had in mind a Brookner , a Lively or a Colegate ; a Pym ( Barbara , not Francis ) would be a comfort ; anything but Martin Amis .
13 In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed .
14 Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger .
15 He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian .
16 If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) .
17 For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal .
18 Each volunteer pays £4 per day , £3 if retired , unemployed or a student .
19 In the case of Bilsthorpe , the Secretary of State 's excuse for lack of Government support was that the project was neither commercial nor a demonstration project .
20 Caledor gave this great honour to the Reaver Knights for their loyalty and to this day , over five thousand years later , the Reaver Knights still rigorously patrol Ulthuan and a place in their ranks is much sought after .
21 The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal .
22 In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence .
23 At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’
24 There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you .
25 Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail .
26 Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis .
27 However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 .
28 In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly .
29 You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault .
30 In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) .
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