Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new eukaryotic cell was porous , and surrounded by a membrane a few ten-millionths of a millimetre thick . |
| 2 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 3 | He quickly devoured a few fragments and stuffed into a bag a lot of miscellaneous food which Irina was evidently leaving behind . |
| 4 | The onset of drought in the 1970s simply compounded and brought to a head a situation that was almost inevitable from its inception , the root of which was fuelled by European interests to counteract competition from soya bean imports from the USA . |
| 5 | He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister , and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu 's crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels . |
| 6 | This opposition , she felt , was orchestrated by the ‘ homosexual/humanist/intellectual lobby'-adding homosexual to the usual list — who were well organised and united in a way the Church was seen not to be . |
| 7 | The hardships he accepted with a kind of satisfaction would benefit others and do their work a power of good , he said , and cited as an example a painter friend at The Hague , Theophile de Bock . |
| 8 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Drawing the wallet from his pocket , he separated the one of Breakspear from the rest and studied for a moment the view of the college it presented . |
| 10 | A car pulled up behind the Land Rover and disgorged Gareth and then Tremayne who moved like a tank across the earthy verge and rocked to a halt a yard away . |
| 11 | Years later I discovered that this process had been studied by a distinguished scientist , Beveridge , and described in a book The Art of Scientific Investigation . |
| 12 | As far as the programmer is concerned , data can be written to and read from a file a data item or a character ( byte ) at a time . |