Example sentences of "[adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caledor gave this great honour to the Reaver Knights for their loyalty and to this day , over five thousand years later , the Reaver Knights still rigorously patrol Ulthuan and a place in their ranks is much sought after . |
| 2 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 3 | It is a hardy , thrifty , long-lived mountain breed which was first recognised in 1856 ; a breed society was formed in 1895 and a herdbook established in 1926 . |
| 4 | In addition the National Free Church Council supported a peace mission by W. R. Cremer , Radical MP for Haggerston from 1885 to 1895 and a Wesleyan . |
| 5 | The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal . |
| 6 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |
| 7 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
| 8 | He failed to do this and a thief ( third party ) entered the house and stole property belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 9 | Graham McClintoch of ‘ the indefensible ginger-coloured suit ’ has returned , and there are commemorative mentions of a ginger this and a ginger that . |
| 10 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 11 | In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses . |
| 12 | The presidential offices nestle behind this and a balcony provides a fine platform from which the public can be addressed . |
| 13 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 14 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 15 | All this and a war hero to boot . |
| 16 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 17 | Few had considered this and a number who had previously chosen evenings changed their answers after reflecting on this follow-up question . |
| 18 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 19 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 20 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 21 | But intellectually , on this and a number of different fronts , town planning was on the frontiers of change . |
| 22 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 23 | It 's very important you 're taught that , er such feelings as respect , love , emotions all come into this and a woman has a right to say no , if she does n't |
| 24 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 25 | In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence . |
| 26 | At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’ |
| 27 | Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar . |
| 28 | There is a great variety of watersports available nearby and a golf course 4 miles away for the more energetic amongst you . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 30 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |