Example sentences of "and a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Applying the power to the sail is the next stage and a useful analogy here is that of closing a door . |
| 32 | By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , the Gloucester was deemed one of the country 's better dairy cows and a useful draught ox . |
| 33 | The course , which can be taken in a specialist or more general mode , seeks to give students a thorough grounding in Fine Craft Design , to give them a firm basis for thinking about their work and a useful introduction to business practice . |
| 34 | Nevertheless , Barry Gale 's book is well worth reading , and a useful contribution to the literature on Darwin . |
| 35 | It is an ideal opportunity to play constructively together and a useful way for everyone to make new friends . |
| 36 | With diligence and determination ( and attending Stow Street College of Printing ) I was considered as an asset and a useful member of the firm . |
| 37 | A holiday memorable for seafood and storms , and a useful test of the author 's PPL/IR — and two folding mountain bikes . |
| 38 | The Il-103 , first revealed in model form at last year 's Paris Air Show and as a full-scale mock-up at MosAero '92 in August , is a low-wing four/five seat fixed-gear aerobatic trainer/tourer with a maximum take-off weight of 1,300 kilograms and a useful load of 350 kilograms . |
| 39 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 40 | A movement moves : it does not , and dares not , coalesce ; and to capitalise it was no more than a modest journalistic hyperbole and a useful summary of an undoubted shift in literary taste . |
| 41 | With The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel , Rupert of Hentzau ( and with the less well-known novels , The Heart of Princess Osra and Sophy of Kravonia ) Anthony Hope created a subspecies of the adventure story and a useful literary adjective . |
| 42 | Excellent bouldering five minutes from the campsite on the west of the river and a useful practice crag five minutes up the path to the Chatelleret . |
| 43 | Among these is a Victorian chaise longue upholstered in rose red velvet in the main bedroom and a useful pine blanket box . |
| 44 | Making good notes in lectures or from books is an important art and a useful skill . |
| 45 | Teachers will be asked to record and review the experience , and employers usually find these reports to be very positive insights , and a useful evaluation of their work . |
| 46 | Advice is available without cost from regional surveyors of the EIG , and a useful guide has been published ( It Wo n't Happen To Us , CIO , now Church House Publishing , 1981 ) . |
| 47 | Other good features include a spare bulb in the tail cap and a useful key ring facility . |
| 48 | With case studies , advice on safe sex and a useful self-help and advice section , this is a pioneering book on a crucial subject . |
| 49 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |
| 50 | These include buttons for cut and paste functions ; text justification , size and style ; insert , delete , data sort and column adjustment , and a useful speed sum button which totals any highlighted row or column . |
| 51 | Drawings can be resized , flipped horizontally or vertically , stretched , compressed or rotated , and a useful feature is the ability to set the cursor to move only horizontally or vertically in order to draw straight lines . |
| 52 | On the basis of recent information , I am able to distinguish between their insistence at this point and a useful negotiating ploy . |
| 53 | Davis clocked 11.6 in winning the 100 metres and a useful 23.1 in the 200 metres . |
| 54 | The east end of the Cathedral is Gothic , but the long nave is still Romanesque and the transepts are in a Transitional form of the style ; the two parts of the cathedral form a marked contrast , particularly inside the building , and a useful study . |
| 55 | It was a symptom of an overheated economy , and a useful early warning of faster inflation to come . |
| 56 | Even the Salvation Army , formed specifically with the ‘ unrespectable ’ poor in mind , hardly succeeded in becoming more than a welcome addition to free public entertainment ( with its uniforms , bands and lively hymns ) , and a useful source of charity . |
| 57 | These departments will needless to say be answerable direct to the main body of partners but , for administrative convenience an additional tier will usually be introduced in the form of a managing partner or a partners ' management committee as a more efficient method of control and a useful filter to ensure that the partners as a whole are spared the necessity of dealing with anything other than matters of real importance . |
| 58 | Mr Eysenck tells his readers , with obvious relish , that he has an extremely high IQ , a gift for language and a pellucid style ; that he was a doughty boxer in youth and an excellent tennis player in maturity ; and that he has always preferred principle and persecution to conformity and an easy life . |
| 59 | A few lumps of stone ; a matching shepherd and shepherdess plucked from Arcady , an old and battered sundial and a leaded glass cloche . |
| 60 | He and a 12-year-old boy robbed a middle-aged man of £25 at gunpoint in a Leeds park . |