Example sentences of "and a [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The casino , containing restaurants and a flat for the owners , was given holiday spirit with a viewing platform reached by a spiral stair adjoining the entrance . |
2 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
3 | Let's see , from the top and grossing it up on a worldwide basis , it 's roughly fifty for the visor , two hundred for shirts and sweaters , just under fifty for the golf gloves , and a hundred for the trousers . ’ |
4 | There are two types : a smaller one in the mountains and a larger in the valleys ( the bulls stand at 141cm and weigh 800–1,200kg , the cows 130cm and 540–600kg ) . |
5 | ‘ Ray Wilkins is still a tremendous influence in midfield , and a few of the players Gerry has introduced have really blossomed . |
6 | Accordingly , accompanied by Emil and a few of the others , I carried my bags to the coffee shop where everyone immediately ordered huge carrot cakes , the speciality of the house , as if they were in fear of famine . |
7 | In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time . |
8 | On top of it there were all the fruits of the forest , the animals of the plain , and a few of the beasts of the sea for good measure . |
9 | Over by the birch trees , Mervyn Finch had started to play his squeezebox to Vera ‘ Got All the Things There ’ Loomis , and a few of the adults were dancing the old dances that have been passed down for nearly 200 years . |
10 | A number of us went to that presentation the minister , the church secretary , myself , and the treasurer at the time and a few of the elders . |
11 | Many of the articles bore hand-painted scenes and a few of the painters became famous later as artists . |
12 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
13 | Of the other large groups of courses , PGCE Primary students on between a quarter and a third of the courses received little on The Language of Specialist Subjects , Standard Language , Accent and Dialect , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research . |