Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 2 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 3 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 4 | It consists of a two and a half foot length of narrow clear plastic tube which is fixed to your cleaner by means of an adaptor . |
| 5 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 6 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 7 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 8 | For the manager the critical relationship to understand is that between the potential ‘ drive ’ of an individual and the nature of needs . |
| 9 | Here is the source of the cunning factor and Kent are unashamed — indeed almost gleeful — in their avowed intention to take full advantage of the Lord 's dispensation that , in order to encourage slow bowling , the same pitch may be used for a one-day and a championship match . |
| 10 | Romany King is five pounds better off than last year for a two and a half length beating and is now ridden by Adrian Maguire , one of the most talented young jockeys on the circuit . |
| 11 | A bonus of £10,000 was available at the hole for a hole-in-one and the American 's tee shot landed a foot beyond the hole and spun back to a foot short of the hole . |
| 12 | For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects . |
| 13 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 14 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 15 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , between a fifth and a quarter of firms within the zones considered that their output , employment and productivity would be lower without on-site incentives . |
| 17 | In the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century re-exporting still accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of total exports . |
| 18 | I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’ |
| 19 | The hours worked in the late 1970s were between a third and a quarter longer than those in all the other railways studied by the BR/Leeds team ( 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 20 | The tax 's defenders point out that only between a third and a half of church members pay the levy , and then only in proportion to their incomes . |
| 21 | of the total populations recorded , and Willow Warblers occupied between a third and a half of this percentage . |
| 22 | Despite the political rhetoric of the modern welfare state , which has created popular images to the contrary , the reality is that the basic state retirement pension continues to provide an income between a third and a half of average earnings . |
| 23 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 24 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 25 | This coupling between group modes of the same symmetry should not be confused with Fermi resonance between a fundamental and an overtone or combination of the same symmetry [ see Section 5.8.6 above ] ; in the case of coupling between fundamental group modes there is no violation of the vibrational selection rule . |
| 26 | So , for example , we 've got a positive with a negative , then we have a positive with a positive , a negative with a negative and a negative with a positive . |
| 27 | Steve came in with a danish and a cup of coffee and I 'm thinking |
| 28 | In bright afternoon sunshine , Chip Beck , the American Ryder Cup player , forged firmly to the front , overtaking Brad Bryant , who had earlier set the target with a 69 and a total of 136 . |
| 29 | Determined to experience life as a catwalk photographer , I swapped my pen and notebook for a Canon Eos camera , 200mm lens with a doubler and a monopod ( bravely loaned by Michel Arnaud ) and squeezed into the ‘ gun emplacement ’ at the back of the Salle Sully . |
| 30 | Lamb rampaged to 50 with a six and a pull for four in the same Su'a over . |