Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His earliest sporting interests were as a co-founder of the Worcester Rugby Football Club and as a penny-farthing cyclist in 1876 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is a history of confusion and of a last-ditch defence against confusion . |
| 9 | Luce buried her face against Michele 's neck and for a long time they sat without moving or speaking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A secure home can be achieved without any great expense and with a little organisation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For a moment it was as though they had stepped through the doorway and into a Mediterranean resort . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is a way of thinking that is predominant in social research and to a considerable extent in social theory , too . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Rachel got out of the car and with a little ripple of laughter led the way into her flat . |
| 23 | A tall man dressed in the full scarlet traditional uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted police strode into the dining car and in a conversation-stopping voice said he had some serious information for us . |
| 24 | For an application to be an application for the renewal of a licence , it must be in respect of premises where there is a licence already in force and for a further grant in the form of that licence . |
| 25 | It was clever use of classic ploys : the evocation of a common external enemy and of a stark choice between Franco and the abyss . |
| 26 | She may also have to face a serious reduction in income , which might necessitate the sale of her house and the loss of her settled way of life by a move to another neighbourhood and to a smaller home , or into yours if that is to be the arrangement you both decide upon . |
| 27 | Some of what I have to say does in fact apply to literature generally , but much of it is specific to the novel , the literary form in which I am most interested , both as a literary critic and as a practising writer . |
| 28 | It was quickly recognised that effective learning could most easily take place when opportunities were created frequently throughout each day , in a relaxed familiar setting and with a trusted companion . |
| 29 | Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 30 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |