Example sentences of "and [art] [noun sg] have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And the headmaster had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties .
2 The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear .
3 J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build .
4 Technology at your fingertips and the chance to have a much-needed sit down as well .
5 Albert was talking to them as they waited to leave , and the boy had a large rubber ball that he would insist on throwing about in the compartment .
6 An estimated 90 per cent of the population adhered to the Roman Catholic faith , and the Church had a massive presence in Polish society , including its own university , large numbers of priests , newspapers and periodicals , and representatives in the armed forces and the Polish parliament , the Sejm .
7 Through most of 1940 and 1941 , a complex command system made raids from the United Kingdom difficult to organise , for each Army Command was responsible for raiding shores opposite their area in the United Kingdom , and the Navy had a final say on any seaborne raid .
8 The female is larger and stouter than the male ; and the male has a white front edge to the anal fin .
9 And the man had a volcanic eruption .
10 Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew .
11 The sun was low by now , obscured behind the wattle of leafless branches , and the air had a chilly edge .
12 Visibility is absolutely nil within the darkness , and the air has a dreadful chill .
13 The song , a long-standing live favourite , was produced by Gil Norton and the flipside has a nine-minute live version recorded at Manchester 's G-Mex last December .
14 A Roman Catholic chapel adjoins the house , and the village has a Methodist chapel .
15 It had rained overnight but now the sun was breaking through and the scene had a certain gaiety .
16 The relative amount of processing performed by the eye and the brain has a big impact on the visual world of all animals .
17 The vast majority of people listen during the day , and the station has a different editorial approach to its weekday daytime programmes and to its evening and weekend shows .
18 For once the major characters seem like flesh-and-blood creations , and the comedy has a surprising depth of emotion .
19 The firmlets have competitive strategies , and the company has a corporate strategy ( see Figure 1 ) .
20 Children think in black and white , good and bad , and the comic has a powerful influence on shaping attitudes .
21 To illustrate , let us consider the case of a word overlapping with two other candidates , the first of which has a long definition and the second has a short definition .
22 base manager for WGOL who is also vice-chairman of the East Anglian branch of the Institute , commented : ‘ The agreement was reached because Trinity House was looking for a professional body to fill the void and the Institute has a good reputation and a presence in the majority of UK ports ’ .
23 The London Board , by contrast , was heavily urbanised and had a dominant domestic load ; whereas Boards in South Wales and the North had a preponderant industrial load .
24 Of the 68 patients entered , two were retrospectively excluded from analysis : one patient had an incompletely healed ulcer at the time of entry , and the other had a substantial prepyloric ulcer associated with small duodenal erosions .
25 One had three hearths and seven cooking-holes plus an irregular bell-shaped storage pit , and the other had a single hearth and 23 cooking-holes .
26 One wing has a serrated surface like a file , and the other has a sharp edge over which the file is scraped .
27 These two populations were then brought together in the fraternal Orange Order and the Order had a major say in the composition and policies of the Unionist Party .
28 At a meeting at Essex County Hospital he outlined priorities for care , such as cases where patients were in immediate danger or disabled people were involved and the council had a statutory obligation to act .
29 The engine , which runs on unleaded petrol , is the all-British , award-winning 1.4k series and the car has a special sports suspension for a smooth , easy ride .
30 But it is by no means uninteresting , and the topic has a great deal to offer the English language student .
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