Example sentences of "and sometimes a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 2 | At a certain point in the ceremony the rhythm of the weeping began to change and the tears were replaced by laughter and sometimes a kind of ecstatic , even erotic frenzy . |
| 3 | Each special effect is just barely holding on to credibility , waiting for that cut which often comes only just in time ( and sometimes a fraction late ) . |
| 4 | Our forecaster Charlie Neil is being given the chance to bring you more detail on our region 's weather conditions , and sometimes a look ahead to local events . |
| 5 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 6 | On his head was a special headdress of deerskin and feathers , and sometimes a metal crown bearing antlers or a bird effigy . |
| 7 | It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other . |
| 8 | There was often a warrener 's house with sheds where feed , nets , and other equipment would have been kept , and sometimes a boundary , rather like a park pale , can be distinguished around the warren area . |
| 9 | He was a muncher and sometimes a devourer . |
| 10 | Sheltered accommodation provides the independance reg=independence of your own home with the security of an alarm system and sometimes a warden to help when necessary . |
| 11 | He sits across the table from Mrs Thatcher and her team , which can be a mixture of people from the Downing Street Private Office , the Policy Unit and the Cabinet Office , with one or two personal advisers and sometimes a Treasury minister . |
| 12 | Why can one sometimes get a B.A. in economics , and sometimes a B.Sc. ? |
| 13 | Sometimes you come back as a beetle and sometimes a man . |
| 14 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 15 | Although they are a standard device in parliamentary elections in most of the democracies of continental Europe , they are an abomination for the evangelists of the STV and sometimes a stumbling block for less prejudiced supporters of electoral reform . |
| 16 | He finds today unbelief , or apathy , and sometimes a collapse of the sense of right and wrong . |
| 17 | We go with him , and our sisters too , and sometimes a hare jumps out in front of us or a pheasant flies up from the ditch . |
| 18 | These stations , in providing a large space for parcels , traffic clerks , telegraph offices , and sometimes a post office , reflected the particular needs of rural and small-town communities in New Zealand at that time . |
| 19 | HE has been called spiv , ticket tout , sport 's shadiest wheeler-dealer and sometimes a lot worse . |
| 20 | It takes so much of your time , 15–20 hours a week from February to October and sometimes a lot more , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Cakes baked on the gridiron were regarded as a luxury , and sometimes a substitute for tea was made by pouring boiling water over burnt crusts of bread . |
| 22 | Inaugurated in the 1960s with the rediscovery of Artaud 's manifestos in favour of the so-called Theatre of Cruelty , drama in the last quarter of the twentieth century displays a noticeable interest in bizarre expressionistic decor , extended pantomimic gestures and sometimes a cacophony of non-verbal sounds . |
| 23 | Sometimes design is a constructive method , and sometimes a process of elimination . |
| 24 | They are very diverse , but they all have prominent lobate appendages , a well developed head with eyes , and sometimes a tail-fan . |
| 25 | Why is law sometimes a faculty in its own right , and sometimes a department within a faculty ? |
| 26 | And sometimes a bureau fitted on you know . |
| 27 | It is common for members of each to attend meetings of the others , at least as observers , and sometimes a project initiated by one body is subsequently brought to fruition under the aegis of another . |
| 28 | Sensitive to open air and sometimes a sensation of breathlessness as if they were passing rapidly through the air . |
| 29 | Most of the population were making a living , and sometimes a killing , in ways that were strictly speaking illegal . |