Example sentences of "[noun] and an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Sephardic Jew , he was a tall , spare man of high moral principles and the most courteous manners and an odd habit when listening of purring like a cat . |
| 2 | The qualities a diplomat needed — quickness of wit , courtly manners and an impressive appearance , social polish and savoir-faire — were not to be acquired in classrooms and libraries . |
| 3 | The device incorporates a high tensile steel tube which clamps to the steering wheel and an integral alarm . |
| 4 | ‘ We improved in as much as we won one game , ’ said North McQuay , secretary of the Irish Bowling Association and an international selector . |
| 5 | He was an honorary vice-president and past president of Banff and Buchan Conservative Association and an active member of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland . |
| 6 | He was an Honorary Vice President and Past President of Banff and Buchan Conservative Association and an active member of the Scottish National Farmers Union . |
| 7 | Here we encounter , for example , locales , localities , front and back regions and activities , moral careers , changing forms of face-to-face association and an abiding concern with physical space in the making of individual and collective identities . |
| 8 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 9 | People who are interested pay £2,500 which they then exchange for stock and an exclusive area . |
| 10 | About £15 in cash had gone , but the ring was still inside , together with a bank card and an old house key . |
| 11 | There were two victims of the collapse , a beggar and an old priest . |
| 12 | James 's advisers , especially churchmen who feared that one of Henry 's main motives was to coax their king towards Protestantism and an anti-French alliance , warned against any venture on to English soil . |
| 13 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 14 | There were and are other trains whose very names conjure excitement , among them : ‘ Train Bleu ’ , ‘ Golden Arrow ’ , ‘ Sud ’ , ‘ Bombay Express ’ , ‘ Raj Express ’ , ‘ Al Andalus Expreso ’ and the ‘ Trans-Siberian International Express ’ , also built by M. Nagelmackers , which had a gymnasium , library , music room , hairdressing salon and an entire wagon constructed as a chapel . |
| 15 | DEC 's 3000 model 500X is a high performance graphics system with a claimed performance rating of 160 SPECmarks and an expected price tag of £30,000 . |
| 16 | We are actually in the little seaside village of Downderry and shops of most trades and an excellent Inn are all within five minutes walk . |
| 17 | As 1916 dawned , the Allies were unable to plan any immediate offensive , since the new British armies were not yet ready ; but the Central Powers could plan two : one at Verdun and an Austrian attack on Italy . |
| 18 | His attention was drawn instead to a small shiny figure on a bookshelf brandishing a flute , a rattle and an outsized erection . |
| 19 | Accused among other things of being a gangster , a drug trafficker and an unapologetic admirer of Adolf Hitler , he had fled abroad to Panama in 1986 to avoid charges of embezzling public funds . |
| 20 | This constraint is not required for colliding plane waves and an additional set of aperiodic solutions is given by ( 10.81 ) where and are modified Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of zero order . |
| 21 | I defy anyone to enter upon altered states of reality with nothing more than a bottle of Trumper 's shampoo and an almost-empty tube of Guerlain 's Habit Rouge face balm . |
| 22 | Most Poles were Catholic , but not all Germans were Protestant and there were also German Jews and an increasing number of Polish Jews . |
| 23 | She had a fine head of chestnut hair , protruding eyes and an upturned nose ; she wore patches of rouge on her cheeks , high-heeled sandals ( to Flavia 's disgust ) and a tight cotton dress . |
| 24 | Ultimately , though , which way the paper was going to go was decided by market research , a new obsession and an antiseptic surrogate for contact with real tabloid readers . |
| 25 | A dispute within the ruling Congress ( I ) Party in the southern state of Karnataka resulted in the imposition of a brief spell of President 's rule and an eventual change of Chief Minister . |
| 26 | One thinks , for example , of the Russian Revolution , or the Cultural Revolution in China , or the combined impact upon the Tanzanian curriculum of independence from colonial rule and an undisputed leader with a strong and idealistic interest in education . |
| 27 | Tuesday there was a brochure advertising something called The Magic Realist Book Club and an introductory offer for the record . |
| 28 | For all its popularity , TCS is essentially a shoe-string operation with an annual government input of £12million and an equal contribution from industry . |
| 29 | For all its popularity , TCS is essentially a shoe-string operation with an annual government input of £12million and an equal contribution from industry . |
| 30 | He was smallish with spectacles and an untidy moustache . |