Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've had a lot of positive feedback from the people of the Borough and even a letter of thanks — something which is almost unheard of in our business ! ’ |
| 2 | The try came after good work by Gordon Lawrie and then a blindside move featuring Mike Allingham and Andy McRobbie which allowed Russell Adam to go over at the corner . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | DAVIE PROVAN , in the past a favourite at Parkhead and now a radio summariser , wore the expression currently described as ‘ gobsmacked ’ when he entered the press lounge at half time . |
| 5 | There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll . |
| 6 | Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Georges Duhamel , a doctor at Verdun and later a member of the Academy , vividly describes the chaos in one of these primitive charnel houses in ‘ La Vic des Martyrs . ’ |
| 9 | He watched the emotions play over her young face ; the stir of anger , the hint of disappointment and then a smile settled , hesitant , ravishing in its innocence . |
| 10 | when he was an Advocate and then a QC and Kate Mitchell , who works for Christies , because David succeeded her father , after his death , as Professor of European Governmental Studies before he , David , was recently promoted to the EC Judiciary . |
| 11 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |
| 12 | The policeman 's note had promised action some time during the next two or three days , which could no doubt be split into a fraction of a second for a data check to establish that Sampson was a worthy and responsible citizen and neither a pervert nor a dangerous lefty , and then many hours of waiting in a paper tray to be shunted and shuffled and finally put into an envelope . |
| 13 | A few hundred years of Imperial rule and already a coterie surrounded the throne which , by its very nature , endangered the survival of the Imperium . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Charles Eaton , director of the pilot needle exchange programme and now a city health official , agrees : ‘ There is no evidence from any syringe exchange scheme anywhere in the world suggesting that they encourage people to inject . |
| 16 | If they throw me in prison , at least I know that with Famagusta and maybe a rodent or two from my cell , I can have a meal fit for a Borgia . ’ |
| 17 | Since it is clear that the vocation of hermit was officially recognised in the fourteenth century , the account of Richard 's pursuit of his calling points to parental opposition and possibly a reluctance on Richard 's part to commit himself to any officially supervised licensing . |
| 18 | During the 19th century , however , it fell on hard times , and was turned first into a warehouse and then a restaurant . |
| 19 | I exist with a primary school football team and th the two skills that they 're able to develop , the powers of concentration and hopefully a sense of fair play . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Kubota Corp — majority shareholder in Stardent and now a 30% stakeholder in AVS Inc — is left with Stardent 's MIPS R3000-based Titan series of high-end graphics workstations . |
| 22 | In family 5 the mother 's brother had previously been confirmed by muscle biopsy and so a biopsy on the infant was thought unnecessary . |
| 23 | A big erm pitcher full of tea and then a basket tied on my back with the sandwiches and and the cake of scone my mother used to back more often . |
| 24 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 25 | He needs an impressive victory , for manager Mickey Duff is already planning bigger things , such as a European title fight in the near future and possibly a world challenge by the end of 1992 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 28 | PURCHASING Orford Ness , the coastal shingle spit once used for atomic weapons research and now a wildlife haven , will cost the National Trust £3.11 million , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Q. I have a selection of fancy goldfish which includes Fantails , Lionheads , Orandas and also a pair of Blue Chinese Carp . |