Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Eaton , director of the pilot needle exchange programme and now a city health official , agrees : ‘ There is no evidence from any syringe exchange scheme anywhere in the world suggesting that they encourage people to inject . |
| 2 | He needs an impressive victory , for manager Mickey Duff is already planning bigger things , such as a European title fight in the near future and possibly a world challenge by the end of 1992 . |
| 3 | PURCHASING Orford Ness , the coastal shingle spit once used for atomic weapons research and now a wildlife haven , will cost the National Trust £3.11 million , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | It may be necessary to get reports from an orthopaedic surgeon , a neurologist and perhaps a plastic surgeon . |
| 5 | Patrick Swayze , movie star , Hollywood heart-throb and hardly a character actor of any consequence , plays Max Lowe , an American doctor escaping his past by wandering aimlessly around India . |
| 6 | Freames Mill is first recorded around the middle of the 17th century , when it consisted of a fulling mill and possibly a corn mill . |
| 7 | Now , offices , the County Hall and even a car park make a bigger impact but the prison retains its huge central site . |
| 8 | But now everyone in Faringdon has a folly dining room , there 's the folly pub and even a folly newspaper , but there 's only one folly tower . |
| 9 | Put like that it seems less like a divine commandment and more a TV ad for increased leisure . |
| 10 | Was this , he asked , a European and even a world record ? |
| 11 | Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany . |
| 12 | In addition to the consumer who plans to buy the car , there is a dealer who runs a franchised retail outlet , a property owner from whom he leases the premises , a finance company which provides the consumer purchasers with credit , and a manufacturing company which supplies the dealer with automobiles under a requirements contract and probably a credit arrangement as well . |
| 13 | Indeed , in many EC jurisdictions ( for example , the Netherlands ) there is no concept of trust or , therefore , of beneficial interests ; a person 's rights to shares held by another on their behalf rest only in contract and therefore a notification requirement based on beneficial ownership would not work . |
| 14 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 15 | The film 's musical score and song and dance numbers are surprisingly its weakest ingredient , though the shooting and editing of Earth Girls Are Easy is often highly original-especially the black and white dream sequence that 's a model of its kind and almost a music video in itself . |
| 16 | It 's also led to a whole industry around the Morse phenomenon , including the CD of music to the series , the Inspector Morse tourist trail and now a non-fiction book about how the series is made . |
| 17 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 18 | Drama is not simply a subject , but also — more importantly — a method ; it is both a creative art form in its own right and also a learning tool . |
| 19 | A similar DOE has been found in experiments by Edwards , Jagielo , Zentall and Hogan ( 1982 ) , who used different types of grain to differentiate the outcomes , and by Peterson and Trapold ( 1984 ) who presented ( in the correlated condition ) food after a correct response for one trial-type and just a feedback tone for a correct response for the other type of trial . |
| 20 | The sprightly pensioner likes to share her love of nature and once a year throws open the gates to her home in Abbey Road . |
| 21 | In these circumstances we are usually investigating a finite population and therefore a sampling frame ( i.e. a list of population members ) may well exist . |
| 22 | With only six grades for such a large group of staff , it was not felt sensible , however , to use a system which apparently stated that a post scoring x points was clearly in one grade and yet a post scoring x 5 points was , equally clearly , in a different grade ( all possible scores were multiples of 5 and the range of possible scores was approximately 135 to 1500 ) . |
| 23 | All IBOA districts , in towns and cities , have had a Special District Meeting and also a Biennial District Meeting . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Most rucksacks are made from heavyweight nylon with a waterproof coating on the inside and often a water repellent treatment on the outer surface . |
| 26 | These tend to cause offshore movements of surface water and either a return movement along the bottom or in certain restricted zones . |
| 27 | ‘ People would n't read too much into our last victory over Waterford , but scoring 20 points was a fair achievement and quite a confidence booster . |
| 28 | in the heat , once it 's cooled down you 'll get the familiar appearance of a glossy surface of pottery , with the oxide having also fired and sometimes changed colour and that 's your colour underneath , on your base a layer of colour and then a plastic surface right if I talk about glaze , erm vitrify does , did anybody understand that ? |
| 29 | Smith Rosenberg , for instance , has argued ( with reference to American cases ) that hysteria , one of the classic diseases of the nineteenth century , was itself a product of role conflict and often a role choice by women . |
| 30 | 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 . |