Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er he wants two two or three coaches for this and that and for a special to Liverpool you see , he 'd need it later that afternoon . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 3 | These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) . |
| 4 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 5 | It comes in sizes S , M , L and XL and at a cost of just £6.75 is an affordable way to thrust yourself into the very forefront of the 1990's fashion ! |
| 6 | Not so big and showy as on a knitting machine , but there are two metal rods sticking up — enough for any self respecting machine to us as a radio aerial ! |
| 7 | Many unexplained and ignored results still litter the research journals of the early 1970s , unread and unconsidered because as a research paradigm memory transfer is no longer taken seriously ; it had become another victim of scientific fashion , though , unlike McIlwain 's slices , this time probably deservedly . |
| 8 | Having borrowed the document , Aitken 's account of his later behaviour was clear-cut and uncontroversial except on a money question where the weight of evidence strongly supported his contentions . |
| 9 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 10 | The overall look is comfortable and traditional but with a light , airy quality . |
| 11 | In the context of stock exchange dealings he suggests that clauses that purport to allow a broker without warning to act as principal rather than agent , are " quite inconsistent with the role of broker and ineffective except against a principal who has assented to the changed relationship on this particular occasion " . |
| 12 | The report explains that because these farms are ‘ deemed too small to appear in the National Farm Business survey ’ , the government funded research into a sample of 500 holding sin 1986 and 1987 and into a sample of 1000 others between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 13 | Briefly , this meant the ability to ‘ take his work and leave it ’ : to start and finish the ploughing ; that is , to pen and shut up a furrow and leave every stetch , or parcel of furrows , straight and level and without a wrinkle to mar the whole length of it . |
| 14 | The teacher 's relation with a child is much more intense and long-lasting than for a teacher of a normal child , since they will be together in close contact during a longer period of growth . |
| 15 | The offices of the CDHES were twice raided and bombed and as a consequence , in 1981 , Marianella decided to move the main offices of the CDHES to Mexico City . |
| 16 | He felt that if he waltzed his dancers round and round as in a ballroom he would not be interpreting Chopin 's idealised romantic waltzes for a solo pianist . |
| 17 | The boy was ragged and dirty and for a moment he stood transfixed staring at Hari and Will as though he could n't believe his eyes . |