Example sentences of "[noun] and later a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the age of 3 years most children can voluntarily initiate emptying a full bladder and later a partly full bladder . |
| 2 | Georges Duhamel , a doctor at Verdun and later a member of the Academy , vividly describes the chaos in one of these primitive charnel houses in ‘ La Vic des Martyrs . ’ |
| 3 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 4 | A dry hacking cough and later a large quantity of thin watery or frothy mucus is expectorated . |
| 5 | At the eastern end of a three mile seafront lies the Old Town — once a small fishing village and later a major Cinque Port . |
| 6 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 7 | As a schoolmaster and later a headmaster his distinction was unexceeded by any in his profession , and the affection in which he is held by his former pupils is equal to that accorded to the legendary Mr Chips . |
| 8 | The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order . |
| 9 | Mark Ogilvie-Grant , another Athenian pen-friend and later a friend of hers , echoed my thoughts when he said : ‘ … a good book , but she did n't write it ’ . |
| 10 | The team uncovered a diary belonging to Hitler 's valet and later a will which was authenticated as signed by Hitler . |
| 11 | Originally a Celtic settlement and later a Roman one , it has had a stormy history . |
| 12 | In order for the diagnosis to be confirmed , a barium enema and later a biopsy of the tumour ( via a sigmoidoscope ) will be required . |
| 13 | Before becoming a merchant banker , he had worked as a barman , waiter and later a salesman . |
| 14 | His father died when he was three years old , leaving his mother to support and bring up seven children , providing for her family by opening a greengrocer 's shop and later a modest boarding house . |
| 15 | This was for centuries a strong point and later a prison ; among its prisoners , during the time of the Revolutionary Wars , was Lord Elgin , he of the marbles , who was held hostage in Lourdes on his way back to England from Turkey . |
| 16 | , Peter Taylor ( 1848–1921 ) , Congregational minister , was born 12 May 1848 in Aberdeen , the eldest child in the family of two sons and three daughters of Isaac Forsyth , a bookseller and later a postman , from the Cabrach , and his wife Elspet McPherson , a crofter 's daughter from Kingussie in the Highlands . |
| 17 | MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club . |
| 18 | Cramped accommodation was found in the Louvre for six students , each of whom was to be paid an annual stipend of 1,000 livres , a director and later a secretary . |
| 19 | In 1949 Italy became a member of NATO and later a founding member of the EEC whose charter was established in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 20 | When the seaman Peters , a thief and later a mutineer , protests against the commuting of the death sentence to the disgrace of being flogged round the fleet , Marryat as author finds it a matter for critical comment that the members of the court-martial are clearly surprised that a mere seaman should act from a sense of honour : |
| 21 | Platt bought a country estate at Llanfairfechan in 1857 and was appointed first a JP and later a high sheriff of Caernarvon , as well as being a JP and DL of Lancashire . |
| 22 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 23 | He was good enough to be in six Walker Cup teams , sufficiently well heeled to be of independent means and later a Captain of the Royal and Ancient . |
| 24 | , John Edward Courtenay ( 1853–1925 ) , author , was born 6 June 1853 at King Street , Hanley , Staffordshire , the son of Edward Fisher Bodley , commercial traveller and later a wealthy pottery owner , and his second wife Mary Ridgway . |
| 25 | The two tram routes departed from opposite sides of the central loading island in the Square , where for many years there was an ornamental drinking fountain and later a stone shelter and underground toilets . |
| 26 | Thus , on a smooth sea , under a clear sky and later a full moon , about seven miles [ 11 km ] off the Yorkshire coast , the Battle of Flamborough Head began , around 7 pm on Thursday 23 September 1779 . |
| 27 | He was also chairman of the Leeds Northern Railway and later a director of the North Eastern Railway . |
| 28 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 29 | SHOOTING : Major Peter Freeman , who has died aged 75 , was a former chairman of the British Pistol Club , a shooting council and executive committee member and later a vice-president of the National Smallbore Rifle Association . |