Example sentences of "[det] [noun] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |
| 2 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 3 | I understand that a bridge over a stream on this footpath and also a gate are in a very poor state of repair . |
| 4 | The estate agent suggested an asking price and took some measurements and then a photograph , standing on the edge of the lawn that had become a meadow , where Rufus had stood and taken photographs a year before . |
| 5 | Contact is then set up between these groups and eventually a member of the computer department , called , usually , a systems analyst , will be assigned to assess the feasibility of such a system , and a communication or dialogue is begun between the systems analyst and members of the user department . |
| 6 | Increasingly the free standing sixth form has found difficulty in responding adequately to these changes and consequently a variety of alternative forms of provision has been developed . |
| 7 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 8 | Though all three sides of the new diplomatic ‘ triangle ’ are interconnected , all too often , states find less connectivity and more a sense of contradictory pulls among the imperatives of choices that can not be avoided , as figure 2.1 illustrates . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , in that case , ’ he replied , ‘ I shall certainly need some more piccolos and probably a couple of flutes ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I want more waterfalls and perhaps a bridge . ’ |
| 11 | More coffee and perhaps a spot of brandy ? |
| 12 | He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb . |
| 13 | Worse , the story is provably false : the decree ( ML 69 = Fornara 136 ) which enacted the raising of the tribute in 425 was moved by Thoudippos — who we know from Isaios ( ix ) was Kleon 's own son-in-law and so a philos . |
| 14 | Do a range protect on that same range and then a range erase of that same range . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Imitation or role modelling by children describes the way that they copy the actions or behaviour of someone they admire , usually of their own sex and possibly a parent or even a tv character . |