Example sentences of "[det] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion . |
| 2 | Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ? |
| 3 | But it was that or a Vauxhall . |
| 4 | And my instructions were that I I used to either let them have two thirds of that or a half , you see ? |
| 5 | I love them Terry Either that or a labrador . |
| 6 | For most people imitation of appearance , or topographic realism , is what art is , that or a sentimentalisation of that . |
| 7 | That or a jug of cold water full in the face . |
| 8 | There 's about another two weeks after that or a week . |
| 9 | Either that or a dong the size of a surfboard . ’ |
| 10 | I needed some valerian tea ; either that or a monster Manhattan . |
| 11 | Either that or a swimming party or |
| 12 | I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so |
| 13 | So what does that 's when you start thinking about half of a quarter it gets very confusing what do you mean do you mean half or a quarter ? |
| 14 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |
| 15 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |
| 16 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
| 17 | He failed to do this and a thief ( third party ) entered the house and stole property belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 18 | Graham McClintoch of ‘ the indefensible ginger-coloured suit ’ has returned , and there are commemorative mentions of a ginger this and a ginger that . |
| 19 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 20 | In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses . |
| 21 | The presidential offices nestle behind this and a balcony provides a fine platform from which the public can be addressed . |
| 22 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 23 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 24 | Blindfolded and presented with this and a Def Leppard album , sensible money could be put on 80 per cent of those challenged failing to tell the two apart . |
| 25 | All this and a war hero to boot . |
| 26 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 27 | Few had considered this and a number who had previously chosen evenings changed their answers after reflecting on this follow-up question . |
| 28 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 29 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 30 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |