Example sentences of "and an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shifted , and an agony travelled from his back through all his nerves , throbbing into his hands , making him groan and rock . |
| 2 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 3 | But Philip Burton was a proven scholar and a writer and an opener of doors thought slammed shut forever in the face of a hungry and rough Welsh Jenkins . |
| 4 | At the banquet and on behalf of the Company , Sir Crisp presented to the School a silver cup and cover " as a memento of this great occasion and an emblem of good luck in the future " . |
| 5 | Work experience for teachers will help them to plan work experience for students as an integrated part of the curriculum rather than an add-on to provide some relief for the teacher but of little advantage to the student and an inconvenience for business . |
| 6 | Provided the ultimate prognosis were one of improvement or recovery , it is submitted that anyone — doctor , medical attendant , or other — who turns off the ventilator with knowledge that death will result and an intent to bring this about is guilty of murder . |
| 7 | In 1986 the landlord granted permission for the defendant company to assign to M. , the first defendant , who likewise covenanted directly with the landlord to pay the rent and observe the other covenants , and an assignment was entered into whereby the lease was assigned to M. for the residue of the term . |
| 8 | Where there is a surety to the agreement and an assignment by the tenant is agreed by the landlord , it is advisable to ensure that while the surety may still be forced to be bound by the obligations on its part contained in the agreement , the surety should not be forced to be a party to the lease . |
| 9 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 10 | While ‘ bird ’ may be recognised as ‘ bird ’ in Orkney or in Australia , an Orcadian is more likely to think of an owl or a gannet and an Australian of a kiwi or some other exotic species . |
| 11 | In the Adam period they were also shaped like urns , with ring handles and a knopped-lid , and an aperture at the spout to accommodate the ladle . |
| 12 | Unions are demonstrating a growing sophistication and success in their use of the law , while the courts are increasingly aware of the difference between an employer who is frivolously testing his rights to its limits and an enterprise with genuine reason for seeking an interim injunction . |
| 13 | In April it called for a three-tier market , including an international equity market made up of the top 350 companies , a national market for most of the remaining companies listed on the Official List and the USM , and an enterprise market with minimum requirements for those companies not on the Official List , the intention being that those companies in the enterprise market should comprise higher risk operations . |
| 14 | We have only their failed policies and an enterprise zone in Inverclyde . |
| 15 | Then Peter Hitchens , the Express reporter following Mr Kinnock , was harangued by fellow reporters over how his paper got the name of the girl and an Express spokesman claimed The Independent must have got the name from Labour Party sources . |
| 16 | You can view archived ZIP files , several spreadsheet formats , database files with DBF or DB extensions , AutoCAD files , a file editor and an archiving function . |
| 17 | Westerly Yachts of Waterlooville displayed their Typhoon 37 and an Oceanmaster , while the agents for Sigma and Moody showed a Sigma 38 and a Moody 375 respectively . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that only three weeks were available between his first viewing of the premises and the date for submission of offers , Russell Mills managed to find five collaborators , and their tender succeeded in competition against bids from office developers , engineering firms and an art college . |
| 19 | Mr Engel is a journalist of rare erudition and humour , and cricket is a pastime and an art form which has won the devotion of a vast public , including great men of many sorts from generation to generation . |
| 20 | Clare , who is 30 and an art tutor , attended the presentation ceremony at The Mall Galleries , London last week . |
| 21 | Planting roses or other shrubs and trees , whether bare root or container grown , is a two-stage job if done in the best possible way , and an art in itself . |
| 22 | In the late fifties and early sixties , British agencies used to have a copy department and an art department , and then a separate TV department . |
| 23 | However , while reading for the bar , his health broke down and , following a period of recuperation in Italy and without formal art training , he took up painting and an art patron , Sir Coutts Lindsay , provided him with a studio in London . |
| 24 | Regulation 22 declares that LCH will have no liability in respect of a tender , documents or delivery , or any matter arising under a contract , unless : ( 1 ) The member claiming against LCH gives notice of his claim by 5 pm in the afternoon of the seventh business day after that on which documents are to be taken up and paid for by the buyer ; and ( 2 ) That member refers any dispute to arbitration under the market rules and an award is made in his favour . |
| 25 | And an award has been given to the developers of Gloucester Docks . |
| 26 | ASAS stands , apparently , for ‘ All-Singing All-Swinging ’ , and the guitar comes in two versions : ‘ semi ’ , with 60mm deep sides , a mahogany sustain block , a tune-o-matic bridge la ES-335 and two humbuckers ; or ‘ jazz ’ , with 85mm deep sides , hollow construction and an ebony bridge . |
| 27 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 28 | However , the machine has a basic memory of only 128K , a not-very-standard keyboard and screen , no disk drive , and an operating system called DOS , which stands for DIP Operating System , after the machine 's British designers . |
| 29 | There is a precedent : four years ago , Sweden split its railway into a track authority ( BV ) and an operating company ( SJ ) . |
| 30 | The design featured a two-bladed rotor of 15ft diameter and an operating weight of 285lb , including a 200lb allowance for pilot , kit and Bren gun . |