Example sentences of "and [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 2 | The treaty provided for the elimination of all chemical weapons stocks over a 10-year period and for a detailed inspections procedure for to ensure compliance . |
| 3 | And with a superior points difference , Vipers seem set to clinch promotion from Midlands Two West after three times finishing runners-up . |
| 4 | Ladner 's ( 1979 ) account of young black girls growing up in US cities in the 1960s , for example , was written against conventional sociological accounts of pathological socialization in the black family , and within a black studies perspective . |
| 5 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 6 | And in a plain clothes car |
| 7 | And in a third Writers House auction , Blake sold a novel and a volume of short stories by Bruce Sterling to Deborah Beale for Orion 's Millennium imprint ; Ravi Mirchandani at Penguin was the underbidder . |
| 8 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 9 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 10 | It 's time we had ministers who will listen to Social Services and in a few months time we shall have them , a Labour Government . |
| 11 | After several days of paperwork in Bali and with the help of Continental 's cargo agent , Putra , we got the engine box out of Customs and on a Bouraq Airlines flight to Kupang . |
| 12 | The re-presented programme was buttressed by the inclusion of opposition members in the Cabinet , by a political agreement between the BSP and opposition parties on a transition to democracy signed on Jan. 3 and by a government-employers-trade unions agreement on preserving social peace signed on Jan. 8 . |