Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm . |
| 2 | From the hand of a Toulouse-Lautrec , a Michelangelo or a Picasso , a line becomes a poem of infinite sensitivity with a bitter-sweet irony inflected by compassion and love . |
| 3 | It is present in standard experimental animals such as rats and rabbits which psychology and neurophysiology laboratories were familiar with , and did not require more exotic facilities like seawater tanks for Aplysia or a knowledge of a novel neuroanatomy like the chick ; and the techniques for investigation , such as recording electrodes and drugs , were all to hand . |
| 4 | We definitely do not want a Ferguson or a Philips . |
| 5 | He takes on the role as band spokesman with relish and enjoys being interviewed , whether it be with the NME or a fanzine about to make its first appearance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As the law stands , it is possible for a teenager to pass a driving test on his 17th birthday — and drive off in a 150mph Ford Sierra or a Mercedes sports . |
| 8 | The message that one can gain for just a few pence , by smoking , something that a Liz Taylor or a Julia Roberts with all their millions have can be seductive — and it is being deliberately promoted . |
| 9 | Like a Napoleon or a Montgomery , in fact like any truly great captain , Pétain enhanced his magnetic influence over rank-and-file by frequent surprise visits to the front , presenting medals in person immediately after an attack , enquiring about the wounded . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | an enormous thing like a Rolls or a Daimler or a |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The front pages of every publication from the Communist Party 's daily newspaper , Scînteia , through to obscure literary journals and even the calendar of religious festivals issued by the tame Orthodox Church , always displayed a portrait of Nicolae Ceauşescu or a photograph of the ‘ most beloved couple ’ . |
| 14 | Electrical retailing provides one example where the one-person shop with its promise of good advice and after-sales service can score over the anonymity of a Dixons or a Comet . |
| 15 | No sooner than formally constituted , the Standard reported the links would become a great boom to the town , although before January 1907 was out , a Leader article read as follows , ( doubtless written by either Charles Luker or a member of the Club Committee ) — ‘ It is to be hoped that a commencement of the projected new golf links at Henley will not be long delayed . |
| 16 | Antwerp offers both the Renaissance architecture of a Bruges or a Ghent and the café culture of a Paris or a Barcelona . |
| 17 | Your application form must reach him or her by noon on the thirteenth working day before polling day ( not counting Saturdays , Sundays , Christmas Even , Christmas Day , Maundy Thursday , Good Friday or a bank holiday ) . |
| 18 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 19 | Note that on a Friday or a Saturday , these will coincide ; and given the rule that today and tomorrow pre-empt calendrical day names , on Wednesday and Thursday , next Thursday can only mean the Thursday of next week . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is true , as Sergei Solov'ev pointed out , that " Fate did not send [ Alexander II ] a Richelieu or a Bismarck " , but neither did it send him a Metternich . |
| 22 | And the second issue is in my experience if you have a seven hour on a Saturday or a Sunday you get a poor turn out . |
| 23 | Indeed if the three years and a day expire on a Saturday or a Sunday or a bank holiday , when one can not issue a writ , the limitation period is extended until the next day on which one can ( Pritam Kaur v S Russell & Sons Ltd [ 1973 ] QB 336 ) . |
| 24 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 25 | Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie |
| 26 | They lack the pretentiousness of a Parolles or a Pistol — or even an Autolycus , putting on the style to match Florizel 's borrowed clothes in three lines of verse , to assert his superiority over the shepherd and the clown ( Winter 's Tale , IV.iv.745ff . ) . |
| 27 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 28 | It can be argued therefore that the restraints of Functionalism , if prepared with the genius of a Stravinsky , a Mondrian , a Nervi , a Lloyd Wright or a Corbusier permit magnificent freedom within each disciplined field . |
| 29 | Mulling it over as she strolled along in the morning sunshine , passed occasionally by a battered Renault or a woman on a pushbike with a basket of baguettes swinging from the handlebars , Melissa felt more and more uneasy at her friend 's obvious emotional commitment to Bonard . |
| 30 | I thought of Piero standing in front of a Jackson Pollock , no , even a Picasso or a Matisse . |