Example sentences of "and [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The medium-to long-term outlook is optimistic ; the success of the Modular Course educationally , academically , and as a management system which has maintained high morale among staff during difficult times , makes it a hard example to ignore . |
2 | After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base . |
3 | And as a television sport it 's also hard because all you see is a ball flying through the air and you have no sense of scale or depth . |
4 | ‘ As you know , my husband commanded 2 Para and as an Army wife I knew the Parachute Regiment for many years . |
5 | James Scott in his Railway Romance and Other Essays observed : ‘ It is mainly the human interest to be found in and about a railway station which is the secret of its fascination . ’ |
6 | So , for a card magic party you could have ‘ pick a card ’ , for a football party you could have ‘ score a goal ’ or ‘ touchdown ’ , and for a cowboy party you could have ‘ home on the range ’ . |
7 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
8 | He said that he hoped that legislation would be approved by June for the establishment of a transitional executive council and of an election committee whose aims would be to create the conditions for free and fair elections . |
9 | The warders and the trusties from Internal Order are at the doors of the huts , and the zeks are pitched out into the night darkness and spill to the perimeter path , and like an ant trail they wind around the compound for what is classified as Exercise . |
10 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
11 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
12 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
13 | The RTC had been set up in August 1989 [ see p. 36843 ] as a new arm of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , to be supervised by William Seidman , the FDIC chairman , and with an oversight board which decided policy and funding . |
14 | Pinnacle , a $40m outfit with 30 engineers , will sell direct in the US and via a sales agency it is employing . |
15 | Goodwood House and race course are only 10 miles away , and within a 15-mile radius there are numerous historic houses to see . |
16 | Her National Gallery choices of pictures were examples of problems posed to artists by colour , and in a video talk she demonstrated how these artistic problems had been solved . |
17 | Our staff go off duty at 17.30 , and in a god wind they 'll got out to play . |
18 | They are different from the crows that caw in the trees above our Cages here in the south for their feathers are partly grey and in a moorland mist they seem bigger . |
19 | His conference speech was marked by the absence of any reference to membership of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , and in a BBC interview he added that he would have ‘ no announcement to make about that ’ in his key speech at the Mansion House next week . |
20 | ‘ And in a fairy story I 'd tell him to get lost , ’ Eve said , laughing . |
21 | There was a split second of violent clattering as cannon shells hit the machine and then I was clear , and in a 270° turn which took me back across my flight path and into the safety of that wonderful cloud . |
22 | There was a bar on the premises , and on a YCs night it would be filled with the laughter and gossip of young drinkers , some below the legal age of drinking . |
23 | But there 's the bloody place and on a Friday night I thought ooh bloody . |
24 | ‘ We have also been given assurances that there will be a cordon of police both inside and outside a perimeter fence which surrounds the playing area . ’ |
25 | For the Nov. 16 poll against Democrat Edwin Edwards , Duke 's campaign emphasized the themes that had promoted his rapid political rise : opposition to affirmative action , to high taxes , to crime , and to a welfare system which , he said , encouraged mothers to have more babies just to increase their benefits . |
26 | ‘ The hills of Sintra mean that even in the height of summer the town has a freshness , which is why the rich people used to build their country houses here to escape the heat of Lisbon , ’ Ashley said , resolutely switching her thoughts away from her host and to a guide book which she had been reading . |