Example sentences of "of [noun] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 2 | Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed . |
| 3 | You do n't want a bit of sedimentation and then a gap when nothing was being laid down and then a bit more being sedimented , because , you know , you do n't know then whether the jumps you see in the record are simply there because there was a gap in deposition , or whether they really reflect the sudden change in the population . |
| 4 | In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties . |
| 5 | In Norfolk she picked Timothy Colman ; in Aberdeenshire , Captain Colin Farquharson , formerly of the Brigade of Guards and subsequently a land agent ; and in Gloucestershire , Colonel Martin Gibbs , another military Old Etonian . |
| 6 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 7 | Cos Grant 's got lots and lots of books and quite a lot now but she loves books and she takes care of them as well . |
| 8 | Appealing to the " test of truth " , to objects in their natural state unmediated by consciousness , is an interference between these two sets of relationships and therefore a disruption of the opposition advanced by the text between metaphor and metonymy . |
| 9 | A big erm pitcher full of tea and then a basket tied on my back with the sandwiches and and the cake of scone my mother used to back more often . |
| 10 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 11 | Inner conflict involves the experience of temptation , the seduction of ambition and often a struggle with God , perceived or unrealised . |
| 12 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 13 | He watched the emotions play over her young face ; the stir of anger , the hint of disappointment and then a smile settled , hesitant , ravishing in its innocence . |
| 14 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 15 | I exist with a primary school football team and th the two skills that they 're able to develop , the powers of concentration and hopefully a sense of fair play . |
| 16 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 17 | David Goodman , son of Monty and also a director , gave this account in an interview ( conducted by the staff of Canning Town Community Development Project ) in January 1975 . |
| 18 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm a major shareholder in a number of companies and consequently a director of them . |
| 20 | The author was John Hull , a secret sustainer of contras and allegedly a facilitator of drug runs ; he kept a ranch on the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border , where his favourite sport was to shoot alligators from his veranda . |
| 21 | One last consideration — many couples have experienced total loss of desire and even a repugnance towards sex with no apparent reason . |
| 22 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 23 | The sprightly pensioner likes to share her love of nature and once a year throws open the gates to her home in Abbey Road . |
| 24 | It is both a celebration of salvation and also a proclamation of God 's continuing gift of saving grace for his faithful people . |
| 25 | These are perhaps the most rewarding circumstances in which the artist can work from the nude , since they presuppose a fulfilment of relationship and consequently a relaxation of atmosphere . |
| 26 | The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination . |
| 27 | Jonathan Gershuny , now a Professor at the University of Bath and previously a colleague of Chris Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , takes a particularly optimistic view of what work will be like in the future ( Gershuny 1978 ) . |
| 28 | in the heat , once it 's cooled down you 'll get the familiar appearance of a glossy surface of pottery , with the oxide having also fired and sometimes changed colour and that 's your colour underneath , on your base a layer of colour and then a plastic surface right if I talk about glaze , erm vitrify does , did anybody understand that ? |
| 29 | Trustees comprise a body of persons and therefore a person for the purposes of the income tax code ( see the Interpretation Act 1978 , Sched 1 ( person ) , Reid 's Trustees v IRC ( 1929 ) 14 TC 512 , Luke v South Kensington Hotel Co [ 1879 ] 11 Ch 121 , Kelly v Rogers ( 1935 ) 19 TC 692 and ITC for London v Gibbs ( 1942 ) 24 TC 221 at 247 and Dawson v IRC ( 1989 ) STC 473 ) . |
| 30 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |