Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork .
2 ( This means that the user sees ‘ primitive ’ spatial operations and not a whole spatial problem which may involve a sequence of primitive operations ) .
3 In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press .
4 The picket lines are up , the rule book 's out and it 's eight months and not a stroke of royal work for me .
5 And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome .
6 There was the Court of the Myrtles with its pool and lovely arches , the Court of the Lions with fountains of twelve carved lions and over a hundred slender pillars .
7 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.
8 Erm and if you 've got see if you 've got a vowel and then a c sound so if we said Let's have a look at some vowels and then a c sound .
9 It is proposed to extend the car parking facilities with improved amenities and probably a café replacing the old caravan snack bar .
10 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
11 They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 .
12 There was a single sliding door each end , with very rounded top corners and probably a Milnes maker 's transfer on the panel immediately below the window .
13 His second reputation as one of the 20th century 's most important poets was achieved gradually over 30 years and nearly a thousand poems .
14 Although the Romans maintained a number of marching camps across the Lowlands such as those at Pennymuir , Roxburgh , and Glenlochar in Kirkcudbrightshire , signal stations on heights such as the Eildon Hills , and sentinel forts substantially reinforced at one time and another , these were subjected to repeated tribal attacks and occasionally a combined assault .
15 Although the responses were generally supportive , ‘ practically everybody expressed some reservations and about a third expressed serious reservations about particular features ’ .
16 We shall see , in fact , that the case for French sources and thus a possible Anglo-Norman bridge is most persuasive and pertinent in respect of the fabliaux in English with what we shall be able to identify as the " earliest " features : Dame Sirith and Chaucer 's Shipman 's Tale .
17 I 'll probably buy some sweets and probably a , a a paperback horror or something .
18 Each abounds in imaginative little surprises — sudden lapses into folk themes or popular dances and even a mock ‘ Turkish ’ episode enliven their finales .
19 Cos they did n't thunk too much beyond rumbles and scavvying and the scarring ceremonies and maybe a squirm together when they got high .
20 Successful conservation may well imply a cutback in commercial crops and therefore a reduction in foreign exchange on which the state elite depends for its imported luxuries , foreign travel and education .
21 Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that .
22 Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders !
23 The estate agent suggested an asking price and took some measurements and then a photograph , standing on the edge of the lawn that had become a meadow , where Rufus had stood and taken photographs a year before .
24 The changing patterns of incidence of gastric carcinoma may , in part , be related to changes in smoking habits and perhaps a change in incidence of H pylori infection .
25 You 've got the situation where you 've got remote gears , and you 've got a situation where you , sorry , remote valves , and you 've got a situation when you 've got standard valves and also a small
26 Martin Lester of Bristol has produced a Boeing 747 Jumbo jet , a Space Shuttle , countless sharks and even a flying Daedalus .
27 In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years .
28 As well as finding coins you 'll come across poison apples , extra weapons and even a thing that turns the screen upside down !
29 Two real doctors , hundreds of real stories and not a colostomy pun in sight .
30 The need for laboratory investigations should be determined by the clinical problems posed by individual patients and only a few tests need be considered as routine ( table III ) .
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