Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This record features lowdown bass that goes for the backs of your legs and up a bit . |
| 2 | He has also made the ‘ Chorus Line ’ of paired sets of dancing legs and even a soccer tackle with contrasting team shorts on the legs plus a suspended ball ! |
| 3 | For disillusioned people like me , why not have a method of showing displeasure by having on the ballot paper the names of the aspiring candidates and also a space for a no confidence vote . |
| 4 | ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’ |
| 5 | In Norfolk she picked Timothy Colman ; in Aberdeenshire , Captain Colin Farquharson , formerly of the Brigade of Guards and subsequently a land agent ; and in Gloucestershire , Colonel Martin Gibbs , another military Old Etonian . |
| 6 | The package provides worldwide , 24 hour cover for lost or damaged equipment , protection in the UK in the event of personal accident , liabilities to third parties and even a ‘ hole-in-one ’ cover to buy a round of drinks at the 19th . |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia , accounting for almost half of the Middle East 's proven oil reserves and over a quarter of world proven reserves , has the power to insist upon its rôle as OPEC 's swing producer . |
| 8 | Liverpool 's docks were thronged with visitors , eager to see around warships and even a German submarine , which were opened to the public . |
| 9 | The yew contains a mixture of poisonous compounds and only a chemist can extract anything good from it so people should n't eat or drink anything connected with the Yew tree . |
| 10 | Corporate management appeared everywhere , with the development of joint management teams of chief officers , central policy units and sometimes a series of interlocking interdepartmental working groups to cover joint areas of work and policy . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're looking for lasso shows and majorettes , American cars and even a popcorn maker , ’ said organiser Chris Bell . |
| 12 | But it would also take 700 000 travellers out of their cars and over a million passengers would switch over from air travel . |
| 13 | In the treeless streets between high blank walls one saw no cars and only a few people . |
| 14 | First , it was his knee , then an achilles and finally a broken finger . |
| 15 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
| 16 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 17 | And erm there was half a dozen shops and quite a few , spent most of me life there . |
| 18 | ‘ With regard to future developments , I feel there is a need for some more training in new technology , particularly in the field of computers and perhaps a more systematic approach to training ’ … |
| 19 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 20 | Appealing to the " test of truth " , to objects in their natural state unmediated by consciousness , is an interference between these two sets of relationships and therefore a disruption of the opposition advanced by the text between metaphor and metonymy . |
| 21 | All that is intended here is that the would-be surveyor and sampler has some indication of the possibilities open in sampling methods and also a warning of the problems which sampling entails . |
| 22 | If he became excitable , I advised they gently apply the brake on the lead and calm Moby down with quiet words and perhaps a short ‘ sit ’ , before leading him off toward the dog or person again , allowing Moby to become used to their presence . |
| 23 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 24 | Among the casualties at Assandun in 1016 were several important East Anglians and doubtless a large number of lesser people . |
| 25 | He said that although he was personally quite happy with things as they were , he understood her doubts and perhaps a trial separation would resolve them one way or the other . |
| 26 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 27 | The picket lines are up , the rule book 's out and it 's eight months and not a stroke of royal work for me . |
| 28 | They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 . |
| 29 | A Department of the Environment report on eleven such schemes found that there was often little or no consultation with tenants over the future of their homes and only a small proportion of the purchasers were local authority tenants or people on the council waiting list . |
| 30 | Further military buildings , probably storehouses and also a bath-house , existed north of the supposed forum . |