Example sentences of "and [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first mention of women — and as a potential threat only — appears in the strike committee minutes for 25 January 1873 . |
| 2 | Hughes & Kettner 's new £269 Tubeman thingie is designed to function as an amp expander on stage , as a recording amp in the studio , as a floorpedal on stage , as a practice amp at home and as a fully-featured preamp just about anywhere . |
| 3 | It seems as certain as anything can be that the absolute numbers of the old , and for a long time also their number relative to the whole population , will be far higher in future than anything experienced in the past . |
| 4 | It was the most exciting , extraordinary experience he had ever had , and for a long time afterwards he would bend any ear he could find on the subject . |
| 5 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 6 | All models are supplied with a large 50 litre capacity solid grass box and for a limited period only this offer includes a 9in ( 23cm ) comfort trimmer to provide a perfect edge to your lawn or finish off difficult areas to reach . |
| 7 | In April , a month after the ‘ moderate ’ right had come together in the ominously powerful and well-financed form of the CEDA , local elections provided encouragement both for the right and for a Radical Party now hungry for power . |
| 8 | She joined in their laughing and talking , and for a short time almost forgot her shame . |
| 9 | Once it had dispersed , Bunting was allowed to hold a meeting in the Diamond and for a short time afterwards there was tension as rival groups of teenagers faced each other , but police and DCAC stewards persuaded them to disperse before any trouble broke out . |
| 10 | The basic Income Support rate , including allowances for two people , their dependent children and the family or lone parent premium , from April 1991 are as follows : for a couple with two children under 11 is £97.30 per week , and for a lone parent over 18 with one child under 11 £63.05 per week . |
| 11 | For external use a moisture content of perhaps 20 per cent may be suitable , for an unheated building about 15 per cent , and for a steam-heated environment about 8 or 10 per cent . |
| 12 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 13 | And after a major operation there he was wagging his tail and |
| 14 | The Saturday Review described the scheme as the ‘ sort of meagre and crude distribution of all the allotted space — and of a great deal more besides — into parallelograms , which we might expect from the speculative projector of Great Franklin Pierce City , Nebraska ’ . |
| 15 | With the warmth of the room ( and of a sunny day outdoors ) , the flowers open almost flat . |
| 16 | Given a set of circumstances — and of course more height — I might have completed a turn onto an adjacent runway , but from low down and with a suitable field ahead I should have treated the reduction as an engine failure , and made an early decision to land . |
| 17 | It is an immensely tall church , ascending to a diminishing lantern form with windows and with a tall steeple above . |
| 18 | The former England star played a key role in getting Sunderland to Wembley , playing with 12-stitches in a shin wound and with a broken nose late in the season . |
| 19 | He 'll have it off her and into a good Catholic home quick as blinking , the poor little basket , and you 'll not have sight nor sound of it , and nor the mother , I should n't think . ’ |
| 20 | Schools must also be seen within a system of administration ( usually centralised ) conforming to certain patterns and practices of control and within a hierarchical structure often difficult to change . |
| 21 | At the same time , and within a heterosexual economy generally , there tends to be a profound separation between identification and desire , especially for males . |
| 22 | Among the green algae were small crustaceans and worms , and in a narrow zone above were small specimens of red algae ( Curdiea , Iridae , Leptosomia ) , growing in crevices during the summer only . |
| 23 | The structures are there for the individual to respond to the community and in a helpful way sometimes . |
| 24 | Jessie rose from the table now , but she did n't move away from it , she leant her hands on the edge of it and , bending towards Agnes and in a mere whisper now , she said , ‘ Father 's got to understand that I have a life of my own ; I 'm not a china doll to be babied . ’ |
| 25 | And in a strange way very strong . |
| 26 | General surface markers ( e.g. lectins or anti-mouse species antibodies ) applied to embryos up to the 8-cell stage will stain all blastomeres homogeneously prior to compaction and in a polarized fashion thereafter . |
| 27 | Those who were now beginning to pay lay subsidies might think about that wealth and this statute , particularly about its words contrasting the defence of the realm with the endowment of the church — words which were to be echoed by Wyclif in the 1370s and in a royal grant as late as the 1440s . |
| 28 | But only days after his statement , and on a regular basis ever since , the newspapers had been full of holiday bargains and talk of overcapacity in an industry in which profit margins are already wafer thin . |
| 29 | And on a major project like that it might be sensible to bill that sort of thing into the fees at the at the outset . |
| 30 | Something clanged by the back axle , a rock presumably , and then , with the back still slithering sideways and the rear left wheel beginning to race as it fell off into space , the vehicle gave a sort of shudder and we were out , clear of water and on a hard surface again . |