Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To starboard is a considerable area given over to the navigator and surrounded by the yacht 's ostentatious gallery of navigational electronics : Navstar 2000D Decca , 2000 satnav and XR4 GPs , a Skanti 8400S SSB radio and 3000 VHF and a Raytheon R20s radar .
2 However , " viewers ' religious feelings " were to be respected by both public and private broadcasting and a licence could be withdrawn if programmes threatened " national culture or state security and defence " .
3 It was to do with a smell and some music and a steel thing swinging out and back , out and back , like the pendulum in the story by Edgar Alan poe .
4 The other had nothing in it but some make-up , a purse containing two pounds and some silver and a packet of cigarettes . ’
5 It is not therefore surprising if there is sometimes an over-provision of microphones and electronic equipment and a prevalence of noise , not least the persistent beat of a drum kit .
6 But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else .
7 He is governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a member of the Council for Industry $ Higher Education .
8 Another discussant then stated that community economic development grows from economic and social need and a history of deprivation within a community .
9 Kellmer Pringle argues that we need a concept of responsible and informed parenthood and a recognition that the ability and willingness to undertake the responsibilities of parenthood are not dependent on , or necessarily a consequence of , biological parenthood .
10 ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc .
11 Instead of self-confident assertions whose utterance actually enacts the superiority that is claimed , and which make it possible to identify with ‘ the master race ’ , as being and having everything that the subject races lack , we have discourses which resort to all manner of rhetorical devices to construct a narrative of special pleading marked by highly ambiguous and ironic self-reference and a litany of real or imagined grievance .
12 The buildings of this remarkable site included a large and elaborate bath-house and a guest-house with rooms round a courtyard and a fine pillared fore-hall , which was presumably the communal dining room serviced from the detached east wing and , as Wheeler suggested , based on the classical hostelry ( his p. 48 ) .
13 Attached to the note was an ornate invitation to the Marquess of Flaxton 's Charity Black and White Bail and a ticket of entry .
14 Males are easy to tell apart when in full breeding dress : the familiar common eider with its black and white body and a patch of sea green on its nape ; the unmistakable king eider with its large orange ‘ knob ’ on the forehead ; and the smaller Steller 's eider with chestnut underparts .
15 The next part of the meeting concentrated on the link between poor housing and ill health and a number of reports were commented upon as evidence of a clear link existing in this area .
16 He was polite and good fun and a hell of a laugh at parties .
17 There were mangoes on the table and flat bread and a dish of scrambled eggs , so I took a spoonful of egg and put it slowly down on the terrace , as I thought any human being would do .
18 A treaty on economic , industrial , scientific and technological co-operation and a labour co-operation agreement were also signed .
19 There will be peace and interior calm and a harmony of our thoughts and there will be absolute consistency .
20 Among the most effective for me was ‘ The Union ’ by Cleveland artists Gordon Fraser and Niel Bushnell which is dramatic and immediate , using dizzying angles , taut perspective , vibrant lines and heavy shading and a minimum of exclamatory text .
21 The launch of a new book , Winds of Change — living with the greenhouse effect in October marks the beginning of a weather project which as well as the publicly available book , will include a series of " weather project packs " for primary and secondary education and a TV programme .
22 The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it .
23 India 's economy grew rapidly during 1989 , helped by increases in agricultural and industrial production and a rise in exports .
24 They are in a 24″ x 15″ x 12″ tank with a large and small cave and a Swordplant .
25 There was an English man , and Irish man and a Scotsman on a plane and the Scotsman dropped his watch out of the window .
26 There was an English man , and Irish man and a Scotsman on a plane and the Scotsman dropped his watch out of the window .
27 There was an English man , and Irish man and a Scotsman on a plane and the Scotsman dropped his watch out of the window .
28 culminating in a banal image of the perfect married couple : ( " My master is a courteous and gracious man and a man of worth and I am a wife both good and faithful … " )
29 As I said before , the key factors in the determining foreign investment are a stable economic environment , a commitment to a free and open market and a lack of intrusive social and industrial regulation .
30 The emotional warmth of this novel never exceeds the space allotted to it in a strongly active story but it does benefit by one physical fact of great importance to any sea-story — the constriction in terms of space on a ship , intensified in time of war , the effect of protocol and strict discipline and a lack of privacy on normal human feelings .
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