Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Farmhouse style kitchens are typified by stripped pine , bare brick and perhaps a dresser . |
| 32 | Mrs Browning gave an exclamation of astonishment — a great breathing-out and almost a groan that came with it — and Mr Browning simply stared at her in disbelief . |
| 33 | Drawing a large invited audience of , the debate was chaired by Hugh Rossi , former chairman of the House of Commons Environmental Committee and now a consultant with Wimpey Environmental . |
| 34 | ’ There was a long sigh and then a sobbing , and so desolate and so hopeless was the sound that the three listening minds were splintered with anguish . |
| 35 | A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet . |
| 36 | Erm that had er most economic histor historians agree that between nineteen fifty two , nineteen fifty fifty two there was a healthy recovery and then a slackening off and that erm another consequence of land reform was to decrease the output marketed by peasants and this was because , as we mentioned earlier , the peasants have a high propensity to consume and lower marketing land was rich peasants erm and that one says that there was a new air reported then in the countryside unleashing unprecedented wave of productive enthusiasm , initiative and creativeness but there was also evidence of instability and uncertainty which hindered erm the advance of erm productiv improving productivity and investment . |
| 37 | Mandy had planned a short trip : about a forty-five-minute paddle and then a stop for lunch at a secluded bay down the lake , and then back . |
| 38 | PATRICIA COCKBURN was the widow of the journalist Claud Cockburn and a remarkable and resourceful woman , an intrepid traveller , an inspired gardener and latterly a creator of shell paintings . |
| 39 | ‘ One thing I must insist on , my boy , ’ she said , ‘ a good wash and then a hair cut . |
| 40 | There was a long pause and then a smile : ‘ I assume I did . ’ |
| 41 | The assailants made off on motor-cycles , but one of the two was captured and identified as Abd al-Shafi Ramadan , a 25 year-old fishmonger and reportedly a member of a Cairo cell of the al-Jihad organization which had been responsible for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the killing of the Speaker of the People 's Assembly , Rifaat al-Mahgoub , in October 1990 . |
| 42 | In 1973 , under the direction of the Scottish Development Department , the old County Council of Orkney commissioned a firm of planning consultants to draw up first of all an interim strategy and then a Structure Plan to cope with the consequences surrounding the construction of an oil-terminal on the island of Flotta , and with the possibility of further North Sea oil activity taking place within the county . |
| 43 | The policeman 's note had promised action some time during the next two or three days , which could no doubt be split into a fraction of a second for a data check to establish that Sampson was a worthy and responsible citizen and neither a pervert nor a dangerous lefty , and then many hours of waiting in a paper tray to be shunted and shuffled and finally put into an envelope . |
| 44 | ‘ A return to the old-fashioned roller set of the 60's would be a step in the wrong direction — with ‘ painful pins ’ , heavy back-combing and practically a can of hairspray ’ say the experts at L'Oréal . |
| 45 | He was met with extreme suspicion and often a rudeness that was doubtless considered patriotic , like Gary Cooper 's in Hollywood . |
| 46 | At 16 Gallacher signed for Tannochside Athletic , a Lanarkshire juvenile team and barely a year later he married a catholic girl , Annie McIlvaney , causing untold disputes within his family . |
| 47 | Legal opinion was opposed to exclusive concentration upon criminal work on the grounds that the monotony tended to cause staleness , in judges and in counsel , leading to decreased competence and possibly a tendency on the part of judges to become ‘ prosecution-minded ’ . |
| 48 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 49 | Of much greater significance , however , is the skyline of the fells rising to the east , where above the 2000-ft contour and barely a mile apart two important rivers have their beginnings — the Eden , destined to flow north to the Solway Firth , and the Ure , bound eastwards for Wensleydale and ultimately the North Sea . |
| 50 | Joan Ruddock , former chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and now a member of Labour 's front bench team in the Commons , said she and many others were ‘ deeply saddened ’ by the change . |
| 51 | THE economy faces a severe slowdown and possibly a recession over the coming months . |
| 52 | Known as London Fields , Angela and Matthew Flowers had intended to use it for storage , but the appeal of the space suggested a more imaginative solution and so a proportion will be employed for changing exhibitions or for more permanent installations by gallery artists . |
| 53 | It offered opportunities for the reception and use of the precepts of economic liberalism and thus a break from intellectually old-fashioned mercantilist conceptions of public policy . |
| 54 | Three tracks of the usual dreamy guitar pop from Norfolk 's finest , with a lazy edge and maybe a couple of quid more spent on the studio than last time . |
| 55 | The increase in the cost of repaying mortgages ( the greatest component of the average family 's budget ) caused a reduction in the amount of money available for general consumption and hence a reduction in living standards . |
| 56 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 57 | You should provide them with a list of topics of general interest and also a list of any specific cases in which the firm is involved . |
| 58 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |
| 59 | London felt hot and dusty and the air smelt different from Chelmsford air , a compound of diesel and petrol fumes , exotic tobacco , oriental cooking and occasionally a whiff of urine . |
| 60 | 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 . |