Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara Keays , the former mistress of the former Conservative Party Chairman , Cecil Parkinson , has won a hundred and five thousand pounds libel damages from a magazine in the High Court . |
| 2 | The four artistes that appeared in this not unnaturally attracted a large and appreciative audience , among them officers from the local police force who subsequently charged the four ladies with ‘ over exposure ’ . |
| 3 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 4 | Moreover , entry into the EC has added a new and ever-expanding dimension to the Prime Minister 's homework , more than doubling it . |
| 5 | But now , to the uncertainty about his future funding , was added a new and more terrifying threat . |
| 6 | But the Hodgkin Quadrangle has added a handsome and valuable array of buildings to the college stock , and this report ends by expressing gratitude to those who have helped raise money for it , and by looking forward to the celebrations to mark its completion in the late spring of 1991 . |
| 7 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 8 | My predecessors and I have enjoyed a close and fruitful working relationship with local authorities in Wales over many years and I believe that that has contributed significantly to the efficient and effective conduct of business between central and local government which is the key to the debate . |
| 9 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 10 | Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 . |
| 11 | Total losses on Hurricane ‘ Andrew ’ — which is the largest insurance loss ever recorded — are now estimated at $65m and but for this factor we would have reported a welcome and significant return to profitability in 1992 . |
| 12 | Medieval society also contained a large and growing number of professional warriors and churchmen , ‘ those who fought and those who prayed ’ , who did not till the soil , or engage in any normal form of economic activity . |
| 13 | Since the sixties , rock and pop have been considered a stamping and breeding ground for burgeoning leftist/liberal sensibilities , a place where dissent is felt and upsurges occur . |
| 14 | At the very end of this volume , Julian offers a brief glimpse into the world of MIDI — often considered a dark and hostile place by guitar players , but the very life-blood of the modern , sequencer-based home studio . |
| 15 | More than 32,000 people visited ‘ Arte Antica 93 ’ at the Lingotto , Turin , from 27 February to 7 March and the event was considered a commercial and artistic success by its organisers , the Sindacato Piemontese Antiquari . |
| 16 | Once considered a vital and strategic waterway — huge quantities of war material passed through the canal during the Vietnam war — the Panama Canal has lost some of its importance because of air freight . |
| 17 | This case also concerned a joint and several promissory note , to which the defendant pleaded that the co-debtor had been released by deed on making a composition with the creditors , but the deed contained a proviso that it should not operate to prejudice the rights of others . |
| 18 | do you think your recommended a hundred and two hectares would cater for all those things ? |
| 19 | Dexter had expected a bigger and taller man with the harsh glint of money-making in his eyes , rather than this relaxed , almost shambling , figure . |
| 20 | The question is whether Christ and Christianity have presented a new and truer view of God which invalidates the Old Testament picture . |
| 21 | Er And it it 's reckoned a hundred and sixty thousand people die a year , of smoking related diseases . |
| 22 | done a financial and er my er , this afternoon I had a guy come in with a Capri , bloody welding that thing needs doing , I do n't think he 'll get it done , so I was , I was |
| 23 | he said and in all my years of surgery I 've done a hundred and odd drainages and that is the biggest |
| 24 | I 've done a hundred and twenty thousand |
| 25 | He 's now done a hundred and seven thousand , I think , a hundred and eight thousand . |
| 26 | It 's done a hundred and eight thousand mile ! |
| 27 | The court heard that Lucy who is thirty three has suffered a serious and intractable illness for thirteen years . |
| 28 | After a spell at Oriel College , Oxford , where he later claimed to have suffered a worthless and drunken tutor , he came to reside at Dumbleton on his grandmother 's death in 1690 and inaugurated a programme of rebuilding and improvement . |
| 29 | Yesterday , magistrates in Solihull were told by a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals inspector that Boris would have suffered a lingering and painful death if his journey in the post had gone ahead . |
| 30 | The country had also suffered a longer and worse slump than its competitors . |