Example sentences of "and a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A scramble for film rights and a whistle-stop tour of the US on a book-signing tour followed — 11 cities in 12 days and a $75,000 advance . |
| 2 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |
| 3 | ‘ He loved this building , ’ says Hilda , who has a 41-year-old son , Colin , and a seven-year-old grandson , Richard . |
| 4 | Four women and a seven-year-old boy were taken to hospital . |
| 5 | A 26-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl were taken to the Western Infirmary , Glasgow . |
| 6 | Mandel { 29 } has been able to obtain a number of useful analytic results for such a system , usually assuming = I " and a Lorenzian , rather than Gaussian , velocity distribution function . |
| 7 | ' Barney , of course , ‘ and a po-faced one with glasses … |
| 8 | The boat was kept open by hinged side struts and a straining device at both ends . |
| 9 | Mrs Sparsit 's great-aunt , ‘ an immensely fat old woman , with an inordinate appetite for butcher 's meat , and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years ’ . |
| 10 | On the Pahinui Brothers ' album Cooder is listed as playing mandolin , an eight-string ukulele , an ‘ electric tenor guitar ’ and a mysterious thing called the Kona lap steel … |
| 11 | Soon a lovely glow spreads over all , giving place to deep shadows and a mysterious haze disappearing into the distance into deep blue . ’ |
| 12 | There was a flimsy nightdress which seemed to consist only of feathers and ribbons , and a mysterious stick of what looked like fudge . |
| 13 | The local gutter press , the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus , then printed the following names of players I hoped to sign — C. Flower , Tom Atoes and a mysterious Russian , Ham Tinof . |
| 14 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 15 | Down in Mono Valley , you can be sure there are abused kids , sad sweet dreamers , the misunderstood and the distracted — all huddled under its hazy horizons , but the Popinjays have their own style of empathy and a philosophical get-out line that says ‘ nothing ever goes away , it just becomes before and you 'll find it all once more . ’ |
| 16 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 17 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 18 | Cartoons showed malevolent-looking flies with a smoking gun labelled ‘ anthrax ’ in one hand and a dripping knife labelled ‘ typhoid ’ in the other . |
| 19 | There was a blue sky this morning and a dripping sound , which she located as the sound of melting snow , pattering from the eaves . |
| 20 | History is told throughout the town — Greek amphitheatre , Roman arcading and a ruinous odeon , moorish detailing on the lintels of palazzi , medieval castles and baroque churches . |
| 21 | Detailed costing can make the difference between an excellent idea and a ruinous one . |
| 22 | This kit contains a blade suitable for cutting wood with nails , plasterboard and non-ferrous metals ; a fast-cutting blade for wood and plastics ; a blade for iron and non-ferrous metals ; a rough/fast cut blade for wood ; and a useful flexible blade for non-ferrous metals . |
| 23 | There is a summary of the walks and a useful fact file with information about the length of the walk , the height climbed , how easy or difficult the walk is and whether there are public conveniences or public transport . |
| 24 | IF EVER there was a country where budget ideas are welcomed it is Japan , and a useful one now emerges : those unable to afford the bullet train — shinkansen — should look to long-distance buses , which can produce a saving ofas much as 40per cent . |
| 25 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 26 | First , it shows that common sense has prevailed and a useful customer service reintroduced . |
| 27 | These are two valuable chapters on stereoselective syntheses , and a useful account of elementary computer assisted methods is included . |
| 28 | Israel welcomed the plan as a placebo to Palestinian restiveness , a subsidy to its own administration of the territories , and a useful accessory in Israel 's own policy of reward and punishment . |
| 29 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 30 | Steel toecapped boots , highly polished , became a badge of identity and a useful weapon until they were banned at football matches . |