Example sentences of "[adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal . |
| 3 | They will need to speak fluent English and French and a little Flemish . |
| 4 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 7 | The sky was clear and a full moon shone , lighting the landscape . |
| 8 | At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’ |
| 9 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 10 | There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And he claims specifically that this is because writing itself has a dual , a poetic and a critical function . |
| 13 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |
| 14 | However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 . |
| 15 | It is learning about religion it 's an educational process and it has an importance , whether it 's learning about religion and whether its learning it as a cultural , historical and a religious er tradition of the country and that is what is important . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 18 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Being unemployed and a house owner put even more stress on our relationship . |
| 21 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 22 | The two database management systems are closely integrated to allow the solution of questions which have both a locational and a non-spatial content . |
| 23 | Robert Beale , clerk to the Privy Council , advised councillors and secretaries of state ‘ to avoid opinion of being new-fangled and a bringer-in of new customs ’ . |
| 24 | You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn . |
| 25 | The pursuit of the newsworthy , the move to more collective forms of journalism , and the ever-present desire to get copy into the papers , forces all journalists in one direction and towards that which will be interesting and a ‘ good read ’ . |
| 26 | This was interesting and a new idea , and Grainne would have liked to know more . |
| 27 | ‘ Apart from earning very good money , I find the work interesting and a challenge . ’ |
| 28 | So those are the kind of odd little things that help to make our job interesting and a little bit more exciting . |
| 29 | The ultimate goal was the creation of an industry , originally funded by foreign investment , that would be self-sustaining and a major earner of foreign currency . |
| 30 | You want to be light and a good conductor of heat . |