Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dunn brought in beer , spirits and mixers on a United Nations relief flight , insisting this was a minister 's right . |
| 2 | A genuinely corinthian sailor who spurns sponsorship , she shoe-horns her racing and preparation into a few weeks ' annual holiday taken from London-based solicitors Farrers and Co . |
| 3 | For a girl used to the noise and chaos of an all girls ' apartment , Buckingham Palace felt like anywhere but home . |
| 4 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 5 | Similarly , the advice and judgments of a proposed ECOWAS Court of Justice would be binding on all institutions and members . |
| 6 | She will probably welcome your offer of help with such matters as the registration of the death , notifying distant friends , putting an announcement of death in local or national newspapers if she wants this , and dealing with kindly enquiries from neighbours in a tactful way , so that they understand that she may not be feeling like having too many callers at first but will greatly appreciate their help and sympathy in a few days ' ( or weeks , ) time ; and making arrangements for the funeral and any family gathering that is to take place afterwards . |
| 7 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 8 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 9 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 10 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 11 | I tried to keep his words in the front of my mind , particularly during the bad times when we were clearing everything out and the dust and debris of a hundred years was falling into our eyes . |
| 12 | Summarize the consumption figures for coal and petroleum in a few sentences . |
| 13 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 14 | The 40-acre iron works was demolished just after the war and threequarters of a million bricks were reclaimed , but their legacy lingered on with Slag Tip Corner by the notoriously low railway bridge . |
| 15 | L3 is a collaboration between institutes and universities from a dozen countries , with more than 600 physicists taking part . |
| 16 | The first woman to become a world Grandmaster of bridge , she was bridge correspondent of The Guardian and author of a dozen books including her autobiography , A Vulnerable Game . |
| 17 | One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world . |
| 18 | Information Systems Development Methodologies : Practical and innovative solutions to the problems associated with modern Information System methodologies and Computer Aided System Engineering ( CASE ) tools ; Framework for the evaluation , comparison and selection of Information System development methodologies/CASE tools ; Design and development of an object-oriented systems development methodology ; Intelligent analyst workbench migration mechanisms . |
| 19 | I was terrified of saying anything that the kidnappers would view as a coded message or as offensive in any way , in case John should suffer for it , but how was I to put a year 's worth of thoughts and feelings into a few lines ? |
| 20 | There 's over 120 pages of invaluable advice and inspiration plus an informative Gardeners ' Manual to pull out and collect . |
| 21 | After baking , pierce with a skewer and spoon over a few tablespoons of brandy . |
| 22 | The alarm was raised shortly afterwards by a milkman and officers in a passing police car who spotted the smoke and flames . |
| 23 | Thieves broke into two premises in Drury Lane , Braintree , and attempted to get into a third.They stole £1,000 in cash and cheques from a dry cleaners , and £130 cash from a hairdressers . |
| 24 | Comparisons with published data for central Atlantic islands are restricted to samples of common rock types , mainly transitional basalts , alkali basalts and basanites with a few nephelinites . |
| 25 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 26 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 27 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 28 | There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities . |
| 29 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |
| 30 | The stew is made first by first stir-frying onions , garlic and squid for a few minutes , and then adding tomatoes , tomato purée and wine . |