Example sentences of "[adj] and a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was created baronet in 1895 and a privy councillor in 1906 . |
| 2 | Li Peng held " very fruitful " talks with President Hossain Mohammad Ershad during his visit to Bangladesh on Nov. 17-19 , signing four agreements and a note of exchange , including a long-term trade agreement for 1990-94 and a soft loan for Bangladesh worth about $40,000,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 4 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 5 | The violence of this and a similar incident was greater than " anything I have seen in my life short of war " . |
| 6 | Only a few minshuku are geared to this and a Japanese breakfast of salted fish , rice and miso ( soup ) is all that is available . |
| 7 | All the difference in the world between somewhere as spacious as this and a crowded tube carriage . |
| 8 | And the ladies all when they were dressed they would have a skirt made of this and a frilly blouse with a high neck and er a silver buckled belt round their waist . |
| 9 | With this and a preliminary draft of the expenditure plans , ministers had to go on arguing until they reach an agreed compromise . |
| 10 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 11 | ‘ Would you show me a little bit of this and a little bit of that ? |
| 12 | This and a little piece of elastoplast denied the most outrageous element of the visit to Babylon . |
| 13 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 14 | All of this and a whole lot more , is yours when you open a Current Account with Midland . |
| 15 | He also arranged to have a guitar I wished to sell collected on my behalf — all this and a wicked deal to boot ! |
| 16 | The sky was clear and a full moon shone , lighting the landscape . |
| 17 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 18 | Under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 and a Poor Law Amendment Act of the following year , Poor Law Guardians were able to create separate infirmaries — pauper hospitals . |
| 19 | She sighed ecstatically as they reached the cliff-top and a warm breeze caught her hair and whirled it high above her head . |
| 20 | And he claims specifically that this is because writing itself has a dual , a poetic and a critical function . |
| 21 | It is learning about religion it 's an educational process and it has an importance , whether it 's learning about religion and whether its learning it as a cultural , historical and a religious er tradition of the country and that is what is important . |
| 22 | His father , Peter , was a stylish midfield back in Gala 's Border Championship side of 1966–67 and a brilliant sevens exponent , while Rob Moffat toured with Scotland in the Far East in 1977 and coached Townsend at Galashiels Academy and Scottish Schools . |
| 23 | The two database management systems are closely integrated to allow the solution of questions which have both a locational and a non-spatial content . |
| 24 | This was interesting and a new idea , and Grainne would have liked to know more . |
| 25 | So those are the kind of odd little things that help to make our job interesting and a little bit more exciting . |
| 26 | The ultimate goal was the creation of an industry , originally funded by foreign investment , that would be self-sustaining and a major earner of foreign currency . |
| 27 | You want to be light and a good conductor of heat . |
| 28 | For example , one might propose that the mental lexicon is divided into a semantic and a phonological system , rather than being a unified whole , and that priming occurs in only one of these systems . |
| 29 | Q The natural colour of my hair is between a light brown and a dark brown . |
| 30 | The different textural quality of the Colorblend range results from its cotton/polyester mix and is available in a mid and light grey , mid blue , dusty pink , brown and a multi-colour pink/blue/yellow/white option . |