Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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, " viewers ' religious feelings " were to be respected by both public and private broadcasting and a licence could be withdrawn if programmes threatened " national culture or state security and defence " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He is governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a member of the Council for Industry $ Higher Education . |
| 5 | Another discussant then stated that community economic development grows from economic and social need and a history of deprivation within a community . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Attached to the note was an ornate invitation to the Marquess of Flaxton 's Charity Black and White Bail and a ticket of entry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was polite and good fun and a hell of a laugh at parties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A treaty on economic , industrial , scientific and technological co-operation and a labour co-operation agreement were also signed . |
| 16 | There will be peace and interior calm and a harmony of our thoughts and there will be absolute consistency . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | India 's economy grew rapidly during 1989 , helped by increases in agricultural and industrial production and a rise in exports . |
| 21 | They are in a 24″ x 15″ x 12″ tank with a large and small cave and a Swordplant . |
| 22 | There was an English man , and Irish man and a Scotsman on a plane and the Scotsman dropped his watch out of the window . |
| 23 | There was an English man , and Irish man and a Scotsman on a plane and the Scotsman dropped his watch out of the window . |
| 24 | There was an English man , and Irish man and a Scotsman on a plane and the Scotsman dropped his watch out of the window . |
| 25 | 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 … " ) |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We return to civilisation after a wash in cold water , a breakfast of buns and sour cream and a ride through knife-sharp mountain air . |
| 29 | At this auspicious assembly , from the foaming waves of kindness and munificence , Prince Buland Iqbal received a gorgeous robe of honour with a vest ; a dagger studded with precious diamonds and sapphires and incised ornament and a girdle studded with diamonds … |
| 30 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |