Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland and Wales , and the North , North West , Yorkshire and Humberside , West Midlands , East Midlands and East Anglia regions of England have a lower percentage of their population in classes I , II and III(N) and a higher percentage in III(M) , IV and V than Great Britain as a whole , whereas the South West and especially the South East have a higher percentage in I , II and III(N) and a lower percentage in III(M) , IV and V than the British average . |
| 2 | Scotland and Wales , and the North , North West , Yorkshire and Humberside , West Midlands , East Midlands and East Anglia regions of England have a lower percentage of their population in classes I , II and III(N) and a higher percentage in III(M) , IV and V than Great Britain as a whole , whereas the South West and especially the South East have a higher percentage in I , II and III(N) and a lower percentage in III(M) , IV and V than the British average . |
| 3 | The senior members remained in Shelley and Kirkburton but a new branch was now established further south . |
| 4 | For the Downland , sheep remained dominant ; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given . |
| 5 | The survey of annual changes in breeding populations for 19 species associated with rivers and canals found significant increases in numbers of the Mute Swan , Moorhen , Pied Wagtail and Whitethroat and a significant decline in only one species , the Common Sandpiper . |
| 6 | Major land surveys were carried out for Wimpey Minerals at Isley and Newark and a further contract of 1/2500 maps for the Ordnance Survey was successfully completed . |
| 7 | The ‘ early perpendicular ’ building was 175 feet long with windows designed by Morris and Burne-Jones and a hammer-beam roof . |
| 8 | SEARS ' thriving property activities have partly offset a disappointing performance in shoes , specialist retailing areas like Wallis and Horne and a dire time in housebuilding to limit the decline in the group 's half-year pre-tax profits to 10.4 per cent at £91.7m . |
| 9 | Most of their time was devoted to European issues and China but a Japanese peace treaty was pursued . |
| 10 | The company says you ca n't just sell technology alone to commercial accounts and its Fortune 500 and government customers have lots of PCs and Macs and a whole lot of character terminals . |
| 11 | Barker 's Wall completes this double bill , combining scenes by Shakespeare and Kafka and a powerful account of an East Berlin citizen , who smuggled people under the Berlin Wall before being imprisoned in 1963 . |
| 12 | This was thought to include US$360,000,000 from Arab countries , US$150,000,000 each from the World Bank and Japan and a smaller sum from West Germany . |
| 13 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices , has set up a subsidiary in Munich to support German distributor sales : it has existing operations in England and France and a joint venture in Japan . |
| 14 | Seen from a coach with Sharon and Claire and a handsome lad or two . |
| 15 | The guard with the gun has gone and Keith and a big man are there . |
| 16 | WANO has regional offices in Atlanta , Moscow , Paris and Tokyo and a co-ordinating centre in London . |
| 17 | But his best work so far was arguably at Stratford , where he staged an outstanding Troilus and Cressida and a fine Alchemist . |
| 18 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 19 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |