Example sentences of "and [adv] a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PATRICIA COCKBURN was the widow of the journalist Claud Cockburn and a remarkable and resourceful woman , an intrepid traveller , an inspired gardener and latterly a creator of shell paintings . |
| 2 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
| 3 | Disabled people meet substantial resistance to many choices , and so a range of communication , assertiveness and negotiation skills is needed . |
| 4 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 5 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
| 6 | Although empathy has attracted considerable criticisms ( and perhaps a degree of misunderstanding ) a key objective in history teaching involves appreciation of how people in the past thought and felt . |
| 7 | Along the inland part of the fissure ordinary Hawaiian-type eruptions will take place , with lava being emitted quietly , and perhaps a bit of fire-fountaining . |
| 8 | More coffee and perhaps a spot of brandy ? |
| 9 | For young women in particular , the message conveyed is that of elegance , poise , and perhaps a hint of luxury . |
| 10 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 11 | However , a few clear intervals may develop , allowing some patchy mist and perhaps a touch of ground frost during the early hours . |
| 12 | ‘ Camblet ’ , a word as old as Marco polo , or even springing from earlier Arabic associations , connects into ‘ Camelot ’ , fine cloth , finer than camelhair with which it became commonly associated , finer than wool , as fine as silk itself and perhaps a combination of camel and wool and silk . |
| 13 | In all Boards there was certainly an increase in red tape and committee work , and perhaps a loss of initiative and an unwillingness to take responsibility among managers and engineers , and , in a very few cases , simple unchecked extravagance . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me more about how this made you feel ’ , and ‘ What did you do when you felt like that ’ , give counsellees permission , and perhaps a feeling of safety , to talk further about themselves . |
| 15 | Modi 's reserve might have sprung from a desire to shield Jeanne from gossip , and perhaps a feeling of shame in front of a married man , at his own role in the affair . |
| 16 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 17 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 18 | There were no windows and only a trickle of light came in through the door behind him . |
| 19 | " Plenty of brandy , and do n't plaster the top with cherries , just one , perhaps on the tip-top , and only a touch of angelica . " |
| 20 | No women attended , and only a handful of Tibbu . |
| 21 | The great clothing factory that took up most of it had shut down its operations more than four hours back and only a handful of Security guards and maintenance engineers were to be found down here now . |
| 22 | This transformation occurred primarily in the northern and western provinces , which were always more of a liability and less a source of wealth and culture than the southern and eastern provinces . |
| 23 | The national companies such as Mexico and Venezuela are still re-organizing themselves and obviously a lot of time , effort and nervous energy is being spent by people on figuring out what to do in the C I S , where there are obviously great opportunities , but great risks as well . |
| 24 | A solitary horse is a rarity , and generally a casualty of circumstance : an old stallion ousted from his harem and unused to male company , for instance . |
| 25 | For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position . |
| 26 | During pre-trial hearings at the Old Bailey , Mr Greenway 's counsel argued that he should be tried by his fellow MPs and not a court of law . |
| 27 | If a writer produces a novel in which the role of the police in society outweighs all other considerations , then what has been produced is precisely a novel and not a work of crime fiction . |
| 28 | Rendering a service connotes some positive action on the part of the renderer and not a state of passivity . |
| 29 | Not a word of gratefulness and not a word of forgiveness and not a word of love . |
| 30 | Not a word of gratefulness and not a word of forgiveness and not a word of love . |