Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [noun sg] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a table at one end where a principal officer and a couple of others sat overseeing the whole lot . |
| 2 | But most thanks are due to all those fellow hacks who provided ideas , anecdotes and scurrilous rumours for no greater reward than a kindly word and a half of best bitter . |
| 3 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 4 | There is flexibility in the system and , rather than a dogmatic attitude and a refusal to change , there is co-operation between parents and the school . |
| 5 | With no more than a curt nod and a : ‘ Come Phoebe ! ’ she hooked her arm through her sister 's and swept her from the kitchen . |
| 6 | Many an interesting find requires no more than a wet hand and a sharp pair of eyes . |
| 7 | Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Saggers escaped with little more than a broken elbow and a neck injury after falling from the 22nd floor of flats in Salford , Greater Manchester , on Thursday night . |
| 8 | Now it is true that all these examples of Christian virtue had other things to offer than a rigorous asceticism and a rather overt and physical way of acting this out . |
| 9 | So I just do n't think that lots of money will give you anything other than an empty wallet and a sound that 's already there . |
| 10 | On other sites it is no more than an amused smile and a wave of the hand . |
| 11 | In English spelling , if a grammatical word and a lexical word sound the same , the grammatical word tends to have the shorter spelling. : e.g. for , four ; by , buy ; in , inn ; to , two ; I , eye ; etc . |
| 12 | Passive perception of phonemes activated BA 22/42 bilaterally , whereas a rhyming task and a similar phonological judgement task , all performed silently , also activated Broca 's area ( left BA 44 ) but not the left supramarginal gyrus ( left BA 40 ) . |
| 13 | After a pretentious dinner and a bad night — it is rare , I find , to get through even a fortnight 's motoring trip in France without at least one such disaster — spent in a highly unlikely establishment disguised as a cluster of Camargue guardian huts , we left before breakfast and spent a healing morning lost in the remaining lonely stretches of this once completely wild , mysterious , melancholy , half-land , half-water , Rhone estuary country . |
| 14 | After a cold bath and a trickling shower I fell fast asleep , before lunch , on the simple but comfortable iron bedstead . |
| 15 | The Government asked one of its ablest servants , John Milton , to reply ; this he did in his book Eikonoklastes [ ‘ The Image-Breaker' ] , which spiritedly commenced with the Biblical quotation , ‘ As a roaring lion and a raging bear , so is a wicked ruler over a poor people . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Siward was probably already one of the richest men in Scandinavian York , as well as a useful war-leader and a forthright advisor to Canute and his heirs by the time it occurred to the Lady Emma that she might do worse than encourage him to take over Northumbria . |
| 18 | The annual budget covered the church 's central administration , including departments of social , religious and diplomatic affairs as well as a daily newspaper and a radio station . |
| 19 | ‘ Andrea and myself , as a working-class woman and a Black woman , come from those groups , and feel we should have the chance to express our ideas as much as anyone else . ’ |
| 20 | In fact the work of fracture , W , turned out to be around 10 4 J/m 2 , which , weight for weight , is at least as good as a ductile steel and a good deal better than ‘ tough ’ composites like fibreglass . |
| 21 | But a great deal of research and money needs to be invested when a new product and a completely new chemical comes on the market , and there 's been many examples in the past of things being released . |
| 22 | We were to witness a different and more promising sacrifice only after we had spent many patient weeks in Bira , when a white cock and a black goat were ritually slaughtered in Sinar Surya 's hull , signifying that at last we were about to depart . |
| 23 | This is based on a true story that shocked Paris society when a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer were imprisoned after the former was ‘ accused of passing information to China after he fell in love with Mr Shi , whom he believed for 20 years to be a woman ’ . |
| 24 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |