Example sentences of "an [adj] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bungay is a , is an historic and a delightful town and one that qualifies on environmental ground alone for a bypass , I refer to paper T one , erm which is er , paper of the ninth of January nineteen ninety two , and if you refer to little B , seven , five bypasses for towns and villages where there is serious and environmental intrusion by through traffic . |
| 2 | The silent contingent approached a buffalo robe laid between the lines where Miles , Howard , Wood , two more officers , interpreter Arthur Chapman , an orderly and a mounted courier waited . |
| 3 | This was an embattled and a battling faith . |
| 4 | I have already suggested ( p. 93 ) that tone and clicker ( at least when presented simultaneously ) might interact perceptually in a way that an auditory and a visual stimulus do not . |
| 5 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 6 | Each of these overlapped with the other ; each depended on the other for either illustration , evidence , or knowledge , and each reinforced the other , providing both an individual and a collective logic and coherence . |
| 7 | ‘ they make no outcries and exclamations in the departure of the soul ; and that they make no judgement concerning the dying person by his dying quietly or violently , with comfort or without , with great fears or a cheerful confidence , with sense or without , like a lion or like a lamb , with convulsions or semblances of great pain or like an expiring and a spent candle ; for these happen to all men without rule … ‘ |
| 8 | It would be a tragedy if the use of violence or any confusion introduced by irregular elements on the picket lines were to divide and deflect the support given by responsible trade unionists all over the country aimed at achieving an early and a peaceful solution to this problem . |
| 9 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 10 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 11 | According to Moscovici , this reorientation would transform the discipline into ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( 1984 : 948 ) |
| 12 | Moscovici ( 1984 ) has claimed that social psychology should become ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( p. 984 ) . |
| 13 | Other aircraft selling included a Boeing Stearman PT-17 450hp conversion , $ 75,000 ; North American SNJ-5 Dress Blues with an R-1340 and a three-bladed prop fetched $ 137,000 . |
| 14 | Other victims were an English tourist in March 1989 , an Austrian journalist in April , and an Australian and a New Zealander in December , while two West German tourists disappeared in May after being forced off a bus in the south of the country . |
| 15 | Moreover , since our involvement in social relationships and membership of social groups only ends when our social existence ends ( at death ) , socialisation must be seen as an inevitable and a lifelong process . |
| 16 | Now , on any view , this was both an inadequate and a misleading indication to the driver of the nature of his right under section 8(2) and what the exercise of that right would involve and I agree entirely with the decision of the Divisional Court allowing the defendant 's appeal from his conviction of an offence under section 5 by justices based on the admission in evidence of the breath specimen . |
| 17 | Later that century the Empire was finally split up into an eastern and a western part . |
| 18 | How difficult for an imaginative and a sensitive child . |
| 19 | It originates from considering , for example , the situation where an older and a younger person would benefit equally from treatment but resources allow only one to be treated . |
| 20 | In particular , it accepts his claim that comprehension is both an integrative and a constructive process . |
| 21 | It recognizes three phases of economic development which are not unlike those proposed by Fisher and Clark : a pre-industrial , an industrial and a post-industrial phase . |
| 22 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |
| 23 | The only variable that they can revise directly in either an upward and a downward direction is the money wage rate , but revisions of the money wage rate will have no direct effect on the real wage rate owing to the sympathetic variations in the general level of prices that they would provoke . |
| 24 | The penis ( from the Latin , tail ) has both an excretory and a reproductive function . |
| 25 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
| 26 | After volume 45 comes a volume entitled ‘ Tables of Statutes and Index for Vols. 1–45 ; ’ this contains both an alphabetical and a chronological list . |
| 27 | Golf : There is an eighteen and a nine hole course near Kitzbuhel , and minigolf is available in the resort . |
| 28 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 29 | In the Auk field , the reservoir has been divided into an upper and a lower unit ( Brennand and van Veen , 1975 ) . |
| 30 | If you accept the amendment of er Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh , he would say it set an upper and a lower limit o o of the size of erm o of police authority and the chances are then that the number will gradually i inflate so that it 's always the highest number , that is that is obtained . |