Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher might think of extra resources : a box of artefacts ( some of which may be replicas ) which the pupils can handle ; a bookcase with additional reference materials including dictionaries and atlases as well as appropriate texts of higher and lower levels or a selection of visual materials for study . |
| 2 | one hundred and fifty crackers and a tub of at least a hundred blowers ! |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I do n't know what we 're going to do about that , ’ he said and sucked his teeth and shook his grey head and expressed dismay that a leg had been knocked off the chair . |
| 4 | To starboard is a considerable area given over to the navigator and surrounded by the yacht 's ostentatious gallery of navigational electronics : Navstar 2000D Decca , 2000 satnav and XR4 GPs , a Skanti 8400S SSB radio and 3000 VHF and a Raytheon R20s radar . |
| 5 | My own specimen is in tropical conditions but I have seen young specimens for sale in a tank along with Sterlet and medium-sized Orandas and a retailer I know has told me that he has a customer with an extremely large ( 12″ ) Asiaticus kept in totally cold water with common Goldfish . |
| 6 | Well , what you going to have whisky and dry ginger or a martini , or sherry ? |
| 7 | There was a gradual move away from insistence on the inter-related nature of all social , political and economic problems and a shift towards specialization . |
| 8 | However , " viewers ' religious feelings " were to be respected by both public and private broadcasting and a licence could be withdrawn if programmes threatened " national culture or state security and defence " . |
| 9 | Breton and Wintrobe rightly point out that ‘ we will never have a good understanding of the working of public and private bureaucracies if a representation of the behaviour of bureaucrats requires as many models as there are bureaus ’ ( 1982 , pp. 27–8 ) . |
| 10 | A natural pre-school reader , he attended dame and junior schools and a chapel , but was otherwise cloistered until , in 1866 , aged nine , he was thrown on the streets following his aunt 's death . |
| 11 | This means that the higher rents are being imposed on some of the poorest members of the community , including a high proportion of elderly and unemployed people and a preponderance of semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers . |
| 12 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 13 | It was to do with a smell and some music and a steel thing swinging out and back , out and back , like the pendulum in the story by Edgar Alan poe . |
| 14 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 15 | And then you know , when you check up on it , the following day , you probably find the council 's been back in and forgot to secure it , so we 've got s a nail and some nails and a hammer , and we 'll er just re-secure it and let the the council know in the morning . |
| 16 | The other had nothing in it but some make-up , a purse containing two pounds and some silver and a packet of cigarettes . ’ |
| 17 | It is not therefore surprising if there is sometimes an over-provision of microphones and electronic equipment and a prevalence of noise , not least the persistent beat of a drum kit . |
| 18 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 19 | The game , if game there had been , had broken the constraints of rule , and there is nothing more reminiscent of chaos and old night than a game become uncontrolled . |
| 20 | One man was killed and another hurt when a car hit a lamp post and overturned on a roundabout at North Seaton , Ashington , Northumberland , yesterday . |
| 21 | This situation reflects the great demand for degree places in Arts and Social Studies and a number of the colleges could have admitted many more well qualified students if they had the resources to cope with them ’ . |
| 22 | He is governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a member of the Council for Industry $ Higher Education . |
| 23 | Another discussant then stated that community economic development grows from economic and social need and a history of deprivation within a community . |
| 24 | Italian , French and German wines and a selection of whiskies , blended and malt . |
| 25 | Mrs Khalid had a soft expression and lively eyes but a never-say-die-ishness that quite reminded Ellen of Rhoda . |
| 26 | Displays include : the largest collection of boots and shoes in the world ; two exciting galleries illustrating the history of Northampton from the Stone Age to the present day using objects , sound and film ; a gallery of decorative arts including Chinese and English ceramics ; Italian and English paintings and a programme of temporary exhibitions , plus a bridge link to the Visitor Centre next door . |
| 27 | It has provided the framework for the acceptance of Japan as a leading member of the top Western nations ' club , on the basis of an apparent willingness to accept many Western political and cultural values and a devotion to the pursuit of economic activity within the parameters of the US-dominated international economy . |
| 28 | Kellmer Pringle argues that we need a concept of responsible and informed parenthood and a recognition that the ability and willingness to undertake the responsibilities of parenthood are not dependent on , or necessarily a consequence of , biological parenthood . |
| 29 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 30 | He was a member of the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers and a founder member of the Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers . |