Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Er he wants two two or three coaches for this and that and for a special to Liverpool you see , he 'd need it later that afternoon .
2 It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) .
3 These include : the postmodern as a tendency within the modern ; a notion of the ‘ sublime ’ and postmodernism 's related freedom from dependence on the concept of totality ; a distinction between the postmodern conceived in terms of the externalised and impersonal as against a view of the modern as characterised by the internal and ‘ impressionist ’ ; and a claim that it is the characteristic of the postmodern to signify figurally rather than discursively ( ? ) .
4 Enclosure in Northamptonshire was early and extensive because of the importance of sheep and cattle to the local economy .
5 Maxim woke slowly , sweaty and dry-mouthed and with no idea of what day or time it was .
6 It was because the moment of decision was approaching that they were up here on the hill of Dumyat , six miles from Thorfinn 's muster-point at Dunblane , and half that from the crag on the Forth beside which , on one side or another , Thorfinn would take his stand against any Northumbrian advance out of Lothian .
7 And I was half and half and by the time I you know , to come down to answer it mum , they 'd gone .
8 Is the vendor committed to and clear as to the reason for a sale ?
9 One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless .
10 and in the end mightier thin any of the destructive forces devised by man , yet there would appear to be circumstances when violence is inevitable and unavoidable as in the case of the choice between violence and cowardice .
11 It comes in sizes S , M , L and XL and at a cost of just £6.75 is an affordable way to thrust yourself into the very forefront of the 1990's fashion !
12 Wage information from Yorkshire is similarly supportive of the Gilboy position , suggesting a 50 per cent increase in the money wages of craftsmen and labourers in the West Riding between 1750 and 1780 and in the North Riding an increase of 100 per cent for the former and 33 per cent for the latter .
13 Not so big and showy as on a knitting machine , but there are two metal rods sticking up — enough for any self respecting machine to us as a radio aerial !
14 The older villas are gorgeous shades of pink and ochre and on the hillside , beneath the towering peak of Monte Baldo , are the distinctive battlements of a Scaliger tower .
15 This was seen by a decrease of injury grades II and III and in an increase of injury grades 0 and I. Another experiment with eight rats showed appreciable repair of the gastric mucosa 1 hour after ethanol ( data not shown ) , but the recovery was less pronounced than that seen 3 hours after ethanol .
16 Blackmore dropped shots at the first and second but by the turn was two under due to birdies at four and five and an eagle three at the ninth .
17 The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on .
18 ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots .
19 The formal development of GR will be outlined in Chapters 5 , 6 , and 7 while in the remainder of this chapter a simpler approach will be used to infer one particularly important solution of Einstein 's equation .
20 Keep the rules clear and simple and to the point .
21 It was , however , looser , more flexible and far less permanent and structured than in the West .
22 Many unexplained and ignored results still litter the research journals of the early 1970s , unread and unconsidered because as a research paradigm memory transfer is no longer taken seriously ; it had become another victim of scientific fashion , though , unlike McIlwain 's slices , this time probably deservedly .
23 Er which you might think that again sounds odd and finicky but by the way note I said between w er er it applies to both ward and division .
24 From the 1850s and more particularly the 1870s onwards military considerations — new weapons , the importance of rapid and effective mobilisation in case of war , the balance of military and to a lesser extent naval power in general — were more prominent and pervasive than in the past .
25 Having borrowed the document , Aitken 's account of his later behaviour was clear-cut and uncontroversial except on a money question where the weight of evidence strongly supported his contentions .
26 On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack .
27 She was alone now , she had lost not only her father but her possessions , her beloved emeralds and her home and all because of the neglect of Craig Grenfell .
28 Feeling restless and irritable and in no mood for doing her ironing , she pulled the plug out with an angry little jerk .
29 The overall look is comfortable and traditional but with a light , airy quality .
30 Opened in 1846 this section had been early superseded and closed and in the time of Mr Mester 's childhood comprised only an overgrown formation .
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