Example sentences of "and a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because a majority of Conservative supporters were economic optimists and a majority of Labour supporters were economic pessimists , the difference between net optimism amongst Conservative and Labour supporters exceeded 100 per cent : it was 105 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave , rising to 121 per cent by the end of the campaign . |
| 2 | Typically these hoards have just one or two third-century coins , and a majority of second-century ones . |
| 3 | The Council are equally adamant that the land is zoned for recreational use and part of the Green Belt ; and a majority of local residents would probably agree that housing development on the field is undesirable . |
| 4 | When complete it should provide an unparalleled resource for lexicographers , and information technologists , and a test-bed for theoretical linguists . |
| 5 | THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE Warwickshire Railway held a very successful Heavy Freight event on Monday October 19th featuring ex GWR locomotive No. 2857 ( on loan from the Severn Valley Railway ) and a rake of 17 Wagons . |
| 6 | and a person on average wages pays 9 per cent ? |
| 7 | Now it is a major shopping centre and a centre for professional services and newspaper printing . |
| 8 | There would be increased taxes on imported cigarettes and alcohol ; tax incentives to encourage savings ; reduction of duties on imported textiles and garments and some foodstuffs , and abolition of some stamp duties ; and a levy of 360-2,400 ringgits on foreign workers and expatriates . |
| 9 | The one area where nothing seemed to have occurred was in setting up a Social Fund , since the Six had even begun to grasp the nettle of a common agricultural policy , agreeing in January 1962 to introduce common target prices for the most important farm products and a levy on agricultural imports into the EEC . |
| 10 | Drama is a meeting and a rivalry of human antitheses . |
| 11 | It was done in terms of what the specification should include , and a discussion of possible contents . |
| 12 | This distinction is more related to the physical schema ( the next stage of developing the data model ) and a discussion of inverted files is therefore given in Chapter 5 . |
| 13 | The parents can pinpoint the problems that they do not know how to cope with and a discussion about different strategies of management can develop . |
| 14 | This was later designated by the library committee as a " reference room and a base for non-book resources " ( Proposal document ) . |
| 15 | First , the figures used are based on accruals accounting concepts and include noncash items such as depreciation and a provision for bad debts . |
| 16 | Summing up , it appears that good bold graphics and a variety of visual presentations of the new topic offer strong support to the teacher at this stage . |
| 17 | Results using the tachistoscopic paradigm and a variety of verbal tasks are as conflicting as those obtained with the dichotic technique . |
| 18 | While nitrate is not as potent as ammonia or nitrite , it can still considerably weaken fish , leaving them open to nitrate poisoning and a variety of lethal diseases . |
| 19 | The customer base was considerably strengthened and a variety of new products launched . |
| 20 | Previous research has shown that trust is a complex phenomenon and a variety of new measures are needed to capture its complexity . |
| 21 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 22 | It has an open referral system , so girls can be recommended by their schools , educational welfare officers , maternity hospitals , and a variety of other sources , or they can come along on their own initiative . |
| 23 | Graf never blamed her upsets on family problems , flu , food poisoning , sinus trouble and a variety of other problems . |
| 24 | Now if I could try and translate that into your particular sphere of interest , you are doing things with noise , with food , with roofs I heard the other day , yesterday , which surprised me , and a variety of other things , which people understand . |
| 25 | Excessive moisture , the formation of clinkers , big load-changes , and a variety of other circumstances , however , can let some tar through . |
| 26 | This familiar process of quantification must take place not only in respect of litigation costs but also in respect of non-litigation costs as well as in respect of damages claims and a variety of other claims . |
| 27 | Instead , under an amiable leader , Michael Foot , who was savagely pilloried by a largely right-wing press , it was compelled by constituency pressures to have a far-left programme hostile to NATO , to membership of the Common Market , and to a system of national nuclear defence ; it would also be committed to mass nationalization , reinforcing further the power of the unions , and a variety of other proposals unlikely to have much popular appeal . |
| 28 | In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses . |
| 29 | The group built Medic One for Lothian health Board , the crime caravan for Lothian and Borders Police , the hospitality coach for the Royal bank and a variety of other projects including vehicles for the disabled and elderly amongst others . |
| 30 | Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer through the accumulation of chloro-fluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , halons and a variety of other substances leaves the earth 's surface increasingly exposed to harmful radiation from the sun . |