Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 2 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 3 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 4 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 5 | I drove home in my Fiasco , which , apart from the faulty cooling system , the recurring malfunction with the brakes and power-steering and a tendency to list violently to the left , seems to be running fairly reliably at present . |
| 6 | And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers . |
| 7 | The report should also include proposals for extra support teaching and welfare provision if necessary and a recognition that extra preparation time may be required by the pupil . |
| 8 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 9 | Indonesia also has a large electrification programme underway involving hydro-electric and thermal power station projects but these and a number of large oil and petrochemical projects are threatened by balance of payments problems . |
| 10 | Why not invest in a few Units — new interchangeable separates in black , white , navy and red and a variety of shapes ? |
| 11 | And I 've seen when getting corn er just right er dressed for the mill , I 've seen us er doing with a spade and that and a tub . |
| 12 | Brannen , at 6ft 2 ins and 13 and a half stone , is now every inch a serious international pedigree athlete . |
| 13 | The old British patent laws prohibited applications for perpetual motion machines as unworkable and a waste of Patent Office time . |
| 14 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 15 | He described the drastic measures to move to a market economy as Utopian and a kind of " neo-Bolshevism . " |
| 16 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 17 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 18 | When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them . |
| 19 | From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society . |
| 20 | Data were compared by statistical procedures as appropriate and a p value of <0.05 was considered significant . |
| 21 | There is a decrease with age in the percentage describing their health as good and a rise in the percentage reporting poor health ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 22 | There is TV and audio and a heap of magazines . |
| 23 | The Oxfordshire Club has been described by some experts as unique and a course for the twenty first century … what makes it so special is a mixture of three styles … of classic English with trees … of links with sand dunes … and of American type holes landscaped by lakes … it 's been designed by Rees Jones |
| 24 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 25 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |