Example sentences of "[adj] and an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the Scottish and an English ? |
| 2 | In October 1924 the Labour-led coalition of Ramsay MacDonald was defeated in a House of Commons vote over the proposal to prosecute Workers ' Weekly and an election campaign began . |
| 3 | The world is becoming increasingly interdependent and an improvement in the standard of living of Southerners will be advantageous to the North . |
| 4 | The following song was broadcast on the radio and was on sale in the record shops , yet the wearing of miniskirts a few years later was denounced as improper and an example of western sexual decadence and permissiveness ! |
| 5 | A baby would get born and an upstairs window be lit at night : an old man would die and the hearse arrive , and a gap be felt for a while , but the very pressure of ordinariness , or whatever it was , soon healed it up . |
| 6 | The note was unpaid and an action brought against the three was compromised by the giving of three notes , one of 1 January 1832 for 13 months in the sum of £52.18s.8d. and the other two now sued on . |
| 7 | Sir Charles Robinson considered him ignorant and an upstart and would not use his water , preferring to build his own reservoir at Newton . |
| 8 | JOHN ANDERSON ( right ) is appointed an Executive Director of Bovis Construction Limited and an Executive Director of the Bovis Europe Management board . |
| 9 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 10 | Simply to live in the world performing one 's proper biological and mental functions , eating , engaging in physically healthy activities , appreciating the beauties of nature and of art , trying to understand the way things work , developing one 's skills is joyous and an end in itself . |
| 11 | In a whole variety of ways , the novel shows conventional Western modes of thought and behaviour to be absurd and an obstacle to that goal . |
| 12 | Indicator lights show when salt and rinse aid are low and an overfill protector reduces the risk of flooding . |
| 13 | Although acute and an emergency at presentation , they do not fall within the definition used here of acute renal failure as they do not have adequate recovery . |
| 14 | Tony Weller denounces the railway as ‘ unconstitootional and an inwaser o'priwileges ’ ( MHC 3 ) . |
| 15 | He smiles broadly as he describes his nomination for the Best Actor award alongside Nick Nolte for Princes of Tides , as ‘ wonderful , fabulous and an honour . |
| 16 | The Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) added to this general outlook a racial antagonism towards everything Spanish and an abomination of the social , economic and cultural changes affecting the Basque country in the early twentieth century . |
| 17 | At that time the old doctrines of the need for democratic control were still strong and an argument arose between those , such as Mr Aneurin Bevan , who favoured total subordination to Parliament ( with a minister for each industry on the lines of the Post Office ) , and those led by Mr Herbert Morrison , who wanted to leave the industries a measure of independence to operate as fully commercial undertakings . |
| 18 | In a place with an acoustic as dry and an atmosphere as worldly as Birmingham Town Hall it does n't work . |
| 19 | If that departure has not been wholly amicable and an adjustment arises which increases an individual 's tax liability , there is the prospect of prolonged discussions with former partners and possibly problems of collectability as far as the Revenue is concerned . |
| 20 | The story is apocryphal and an instance of the way Minton 's life took on the quality of myth . |
| 21 | Some search consultants span these two worlds and have both a functional and an industry discipline . |
| 22 | ‘ The police are treating the death as suspicious and an inquiry has commenced . |
| 23 | This section of the towpath was about six feet wide , with the riverside cottages to their left and an iron railing to the right . |
| 24 | Food-sharing , or trophallaxis , allied with the power of pheromones to trigger patterns of action , is the regulatory bond which gives the colony its aura of the miraculous and an account in these terms is wholly sufficient . |
| 25 | Our approach , therefore , focuses on essential themes in multimedia information , providing an overview of the technological environment from which it is emerging and an assessment of the key areas of application in which multi-media may become most influential . |
| 26 | The local cadres recognised their protest as legal and an investigation team was sent to the college to see if their complaints had any substance . |
| 27 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 28 | Minch had long ago taught Creggan to ignore this altogether as their food was never good and an eagle could only come to harm if he got involved with people in that way . |
| 29 | Some see the distinction in terms of a commission which is unlawful and an omission which may not be . |
| 30 | You are stupid and an idiot . |