Example sentences of "[noun] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard was tall for his age and personable , with impeccable manners and a strong sense of occasion . |
| 2 | The two had much in common : conceit , fame , unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress . |
| 3 | For there would be some temporal duration represented by each revolution of the wheel and a certain number of these revolutions would still take place in the interval of time we call a day , even though the motion of the sun had ceased . |
| 4 | The three most common methods to reduce the alcohol in a wine or beer are ARRESTED FERMENTATION , DILUTION and a special method called REVERSE OSMOSIS . |
| 5 | The tunnel is designed as far as possible to stay within the chalk marl but the alignment is constrained by the geometric requirements of a high speed railway including a minimum horizontal curvature of 4,200m and a maximum gradient of just under 1% . |
| 6 | She would hire a Buick and a Sikh driver from a good family , and see the States in the style to which she was accustomed . |
| 7 | His interpretation of preventive medicine was founded on an unswerving faith in the evangelical principles of his own religion and a fervent belief in the duties owed by the citizen to the nation state . |
| 8 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 9 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 10 | ‘ And so I broke into the palace , with a sponge and a rusty spanner . |
| 11 | The caesium chloride structure , for example , consists of a cubic structure of cations and a cubic structure of anions . |
| 12 | Every time he drove the big Volvo along those crowded motorways he knew that one random police check , one brush with another car , one moment of inattention would have a blue-capped officer leaning in his window , wondering why he wore a wig and a false moustache . |
| 13 | There are the Kray Brothers at Reggie 's wedding in 1965 , staring menacingly off into the distance ; Michael Caine with a dangling cigarette ; Jane Birkin , topless , with her arms crossed protectively over her chest ; Catherine Deneuve with a brown wig and a pink flamingo . |
| 14 | It 's that impish , freckled , cheeky chappie with a red wig and a deformed grin whose face is superimposed on a Royals ' bikini or a soap star 's breasts to utter five devastating words : ‘ Life 's better in The Sun . ’ |
| 15 | If this is so , sensible judicial interpretation might enable s.61 to provide an effective civil remedy and a significant deterrent for insider dealing . |
| 16 | The subsection combines , therefore , a restitutionary remedy and a compensatory remedy . |
| 17 | After all , in many cases and , perhaps , in the case of Euramco transactions , a restitutionary remedy and a compensatory remedy will cover the same ground . |
| 18 | As I happened to discover casually ( not a great discovery ) , the same pamphlet was given a new frontispiece and a new tit ] e in 1747 . |
| 19 | The remarkable vertical lift here , which transports boats between the Trent and Mersey Canal and the River Weaver about fifty feet below , is one of the wonders of the inland waterways and a unique piece of Victorian engineering ; the only canal lift still in use in Britain . |
| 20 | What will the Germans think when they arrive in Glasgow with players still fresh from a ten-week break in the Bundesliga and a legislative system which means that if any of their players has called off from this game they must not play for their club sides next weekend ? ’ |
| 21 | So we are all set up with booze , sex , unrequited love , thoughts of separation , ambiguous sexual status , a grand piano for the singing of old songs and a sniffy Law dispensing trifle with a gimlet stare . |
| 22 | ‘ We are selling historical information so it has to be valuable , ’ said Col Anatoly Privalov , vice-chairman of the Veterans Association and a former intelligence operative in Turkey and Algeria . |
| 23 | The four were Damit Undikai , a former police sergeant , arrested on May 18 ; Banabas Tapin , secretary of the Kadazan-Dusun Tribesman Cultural Association and a close associate of Kitingan , arrested on May 25 ; Albinus Yudah , a police constable , arrested on May 25 ; and Abdul Rahman Ahmad , Assistant Superintendent of Police in Sabah , arrested on June 7 . |
| 24 | It all started with the idea of re-establishing the archive of the Verein Berliner Kunstlerinnen ( Association of Women Artists in Berlin ) which was destroyed during the second world war and developed into a journey of discovery , which has reached this point with the following achievements : 1200 women artists on record ; many works discovered ; the archive set up ; a profusely illustrated catalogue ( in fact the word catalogue does not give an idea of the range of articles contained in it since it covers the history of women artists in German-speaking countries , to art-business oriented articles , to facets of the history of the association , followed by a chronological development of the association and a full catalogue of the works on show , divided into sections , as they are in the exhibition ) ; a dictionary with short biographies of 1200 artists and 700 friends of art called Kathe , Paula und der ganze Rest — Ein Nachschlagewerk ( Kathe , Paula and the rest of the bunch ! — A Reference Book ) , which has caused something of a stir ; and of course , finally , the exhibition showing the works of 70 of the members and guests of the association over its 125 year life , which includes 250 works loaned by 100 institutions and individuals . |
| 25 | Mike O'Connor , a member of the village community association and a leading campaigner , said the association and Horseheath Parish Council were strongly against the council plans . |
| 26 | Independent candidates won 83 seats , among them Jaled Mohiedine , the veteran leader of the small left-wing Progressive Patriotic Association and a leading figure in the 1952 revolution against the monarchy . |
| 27 | However , for this you need right thinking and a right understanding , because it is this thinking impulse and action of the higher truth that ultimately leads to inner freedom . |
| 28 | Analysing the moral status of a whole society calls for clear thinking and a certain coolness of mind , elements conspicuously absent from most of the pronouncements of public figures in recent weeks , aptly if unintentionally encapsulated by the Prime Minister himself when he exhorted us all to try to understand less . |
| 29 | What the state can never offer , however , are befriending , time to talk and share , personal kindness and a spontaneous response to need . |
| 30 | After one more roundabout and one more tune , we drove through the compound gates , drawing up to the house with ringing ears and a mild sense of both exhaustion and satisfaction . |