Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 2 | I would be grateful of you would sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me with the payment and contract as an indication that you agree to these restrictions . |
| 3 | To develop roles and narrative within a game and expand them into a drama . |
| 4 | By the 1690s the northern colonies were spreading north and west in a way that was quite likely to lead to an eventual conflict with New France , though the distance between the English and the French colonies was still too great for a full-scale conflict to be possible . |
| 5 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 6 | From the 1960s to the 1980s , they came from the impoverished north-eastern states — Paraiba , Pernambuco , Bahia and Minas Gerais — to find shelter , food and livelihood in a city that has expelled them . |
| 7 | I just go to bed at night and hope for a miracle that I 'll get up in the morning |
| 8 | Someone who has acquired skills in early life for a job involving considerable strength and mobility will be more handicapped in finding work if they become wheelchair-bound than someone similarly afflicted who has qualifications and experience in a field that allows them to do a sedentary job demanding intellectual skills . |
| 9 | Contrary to the process in Eco 's novel , Pazzi effects a caesura between past and present in a way that is disturbing — the fascination of his novel is also a morbid one . |
| 10 | One ketos disgorging Jonah has a dolphin 's tail and the head and snout of a boar and with feline feet and presumably claws . |
| 11 | On the death of Queen Mary in 1694 , a sermon was preached noting how rare it was to find courage and heroism in a woman and relating this to the modesty and selfless nature of the late queen , in abasing herself before her husband . |
| 12 | They may ( or may not ) have been created that way , but , once they have been determined , we store our beliefs more efficiently in the form of symbols ( shorthand words and phrases which reflect a complete attitude to and assessment of a person or situation — e.g. ‘ She is a poor performer ’ ) and scripts ( models of how we act once certain situations are recognized ) . |
| 13 | As those Marxists were receiving guidance and money from a party and government which declared their dedication to the destruction of " the MacDonalds and the Hendersons " ( as already of " the Kerenskys and the Martovs " ) this exclusion was hardly surprising . |
| 14 | They put their faith and money in a bank that was being monitored and restructured under the close supervision of the Bank of England . |
| 15 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 16 | Heat white wine or orange juice and liqueur in a saucepan and add sweetener to taste . |
| 17 | Such ancillary restrictions will be treated as part and parcel of a concentration where they are ‘ directly related and necessary to the implementation of the concentration ’ . |
| 18 | If Joshua 6 represents God as mixed up in humanity 's games of power and violence in a way that is denied by the Crucified God of the Gospels , 1 Samuel 4–6 , in both its tragedy and its comedy , would declare his refusal to play along with us on our terms , and his insistence on doing his own thing . |
| 19 | ‘ I [ Lakatos ] give criteria of progression and stagnation within a programme and also rules for the ‘ elimination ’ of whole research programmes ’ . |
| 20 | The sequence involves the presenter of the programme coming into the restaurant , ordering fish and chips and tea from a waitress and then being served with a cup of tea . |
| 21 | You give me anyone 's phone line and mail for a month and I 'll tell you exactly who he is , how old he is , his likes and dislikes , his character , his worries , what he had for breakfast and supper , what time he wakes up . |
| 22 | All rooms have ceiling fan and terrace with a sea or garden view . |
| 23 | She designed and made a gift to the village of a beautiful war memorial — a font cover in bronze and silver of a mother and baby . |
| 24 | Composer Luc Brewaeys uses spoken and lyric voices , percussion and tape in a score that emphasises the raw emotion and power of Ensemble Leporello 's production . |
| 25 | Midges drawn by the smell of their sweat swarmed round their heads and young Angus began to regret his curiosity , but his father 's face was set and dark in a way that froze out complaints , or chatter of any kind . |
| 26 | This amalgam of experience will embody itself in the final shape and fitting of a lifeboat that is designed to take the RNLI into the 21st century . |
| 27 | It seems to be one of the basic functions of art to enable us to acknowledge thought and perception in a way that other things do not . |
| 28 | But aside from these two areas , most companies still operate with thousands of specialists who are judged and rewarded by how well they perform their separate functions — with little knowledge , or concern , about how these fit into the complex process of turning raw materials , capital and labour into a product or service . |
| 29 | The doctor , covering his nose and mouth with a cloth and summoning an assistant , carefully began to unwrap the body , supporting it in his arms like a mother or a lover . |
| 30 | Place the avocados , lime juice , taco sauce and garlic in a blender or food processor and process until smooth . |