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

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1 Caledor gave this great honour to the Reaver Knights for their loyalty and to this day , over five thousand years later , the Reaver Knights still rigorously patrol Ulthuan and a place in their ranks is much sought after .
2 Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years .
3 The equipment in those days was primitive and a visit to any dental practitioner was an ordeal .
4 Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens .
5 I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was .
6 In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses .
7 ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that .
8 Bit of this and a bit of that .
9 There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against .
10 It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills .
11 However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows .
12 These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) .
13 But intellectually , on this and a number of different fronts , town planning was on the frontiers of change .
14 However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present .
15 As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you
16 In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence .
17 Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar .
18 Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail .
19 You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault .
20 In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) .
21 The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens .
22 Robert Beale , clerk to the Privy Council , advised councillors and secretaries of state ‘ to avoid opinion of being new-fangled and a bringer-in of new customs ’ .
23 Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) .
24 A 170mm unit is used in the 415 and a 200mm in the 425 .
25 And by his side , with his shoulders straight , his head held high and a smile on his lips , walked young Colin !
26 The wind was NW , gale Force 8 gusting to 9 , the seas were more than 6ft high and a swell of some 9ft was running .
27 But today , fortified by her experiences , feeling six feet high and a tower of strength , Miss Fogerty led the entire school into morning assembly and faced a host of questioning eyes with unaccustomed composure and authority .
28 Weiner regards this as irrational and a root of Britain 's weakness ; in fact these values fit closely with the dominance of other kinds of capitalistic activity in land , finance and empire .
29 When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 .
30 Robert Hughes is 12 and a pupil at Llantarnam School .
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