Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK and EC policies have developed separately , largely in isolation and over a different time scale . |
| 2 | As to the amount left for food and clothing after rent and a more flexible sum for heat had been deducted , wives tended to act as the buffer against the needs of husbands and to a lesser extent children . |
| 3 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 4 | The explosive pain of it brought me hellishly back to full savage consciousness and to a revived desire not to become part of the eternal mystery just yet . |
| 5 | Unit Trusts are becoming an increasingly popular form of investment and as a High Interest Cheque Account holder you are entitled to a 1% bonus allocation when you make a lump sum purchase of £500 or more of Midland Unit Trusts . |
| 6 | The Bank also acts as banker to overseas central banks , as well as to international organizations and to a small number of other institutions , companies and private individuals . |
| 7 | He met her eyes and for a second time ; she smiled her shy smile at him , but his swimming head filled it with invitations . |
| 8 | He wore an expression of abject defeat and for a short moment my attention moved away from my own troubles and I felt sorry for him . |
| 9 | His earliest sporting interests were as a co-founder of the Worcester Rugby Football Club and as a penny-farthing cyclist in 1876 . |
| 10 | Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism . |
| 11 | Less successful proctors , petition-drawers and to a lesser extent court officials were dependent for their livelihoods on establishing a reputation for effectiveness . |
| 12 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 13 | It is a history of confusion and of a last-ditch defence against confusion . |
| 14 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 15 | Gould 's experiences so far had encouraged him to expect similar rewards from the next leg of the expedition , and he left Van Diemen 's Land in a spirit of optimism and with a light heart . |
| 16 | A secure home can be achieved without any great expense and with a little organisation . |
| 17 | This first scene establishes Iago as a hypocrite and as a rapacious egoist , the same combination that we observed in Macbeth , the one state creating and supporting the other . |
| 18 | To this , Asian tea and to a lesser extent textiles and dyes can be added alongside West Indian sugar , rum and coffee and North American tobacco and rice . |
| 19 | For a moment it was as though they had stepped through the doorway and into a Mediterranean resort . |
| 20 | Motioning for Seb to come to her , she stood in the doorway and in a low voice , said , ‘ There 's someone downstairs to see Anna . |
| 21 | It is a way of thinking that is predominant in social research and to a considerable extent in social theory , too . |
| 22 | The leaders and the activists were no doubt also motivated by personal ambition and by a jealous regard for their own organizations but , at various crisis points , many were willing to subordinate their own ambitions to the greater goal of ‘ saving Ulster ’ . |
| 23 | Several other people had arranged to share cars and after a good deal of last-minute discussion and instructions , they were at last on their way . |
| 24 | The average torque produced by the motor over one step at maximum load is : The total phase resistance , R = 18.0 + 2.0 ohms = 20.0 ohms and for a rated phase current of 1.0 A the required d.c. supply voltage c = 20 V. For two-phases-on excitation the fundamental component of supply voltage is V = 4 X d/T ( Fig. 5.5 ) , i.e. V = 25.5 V. The peak magnet flux linkages with each phase winding ( M ) can now be found by solving Eqn . |
| 25 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 26 | The Opojaz group , as its full title implies ( The Society for the Study of Poetic Language ) consisted of students of literature who were united both by a dissatisfaction with existing forms of literary study and by a positive interest in the poetry of the Russian Futurists . |
| 27 | This campaign reinforces Moet & chandon 's position as the undisputed leader among champagnes and as a lasting symbol of luxury , at once authentic and appealing . |
| 28 | Photo CD is ideal for putting pictures into computers and as a low cost , photographic database . |
| 29 | Follow our guidance and with a little practice you will find your notes transformed into a neat , annotated system of stored information that is readily available for retrieval when wanted . |
| 30 | He nodded and , carrying the coat away over my arm , I went back through the dome car and with a great deal of interest into the private quarters of the Lorrimores . |