Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is usually a result of family and marriage ties and so an employer might expect young unattached female staff to be more willing to relocate than married women . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do you have any recollections of any particular disputes and maybe an answer that you could possibly sort of , make a few comments on whether you felt the the procedures were worked out so finely that they in fact prevented disputes because they were so long and drawn out perhaps or er it took the fire out of disputes if you like ? |
| 8 | ‘ We 're looking for lasso shows and majorettes , American cars and even a popcorn maker , ’ said organiser Chris Bell . |
| 9 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 10 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 11 | Appealing to the " test of truth " , to objects in their natural state unmediated by consciousness , is an interference between these two sets of relationships and therefore a disruption of the opposition advanced by the text between metaphor and metonymy . |
| 12 | All that is intended here is that the would-be surveyor and sampler has some indication of the possibilities open in sampling methods and also a warning of the problems which sampling entails . |
| 13 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 14 | He said that although he was personally quite happy with things as they were , he understood her doubts and perhaps a trial separation would resolve them one way or the other . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Further military buildings , probably storehouses and also a bath-house , existed north of the supposed forum . |
| 17 | Sadly , mass closures and redundancies have become commonplace , it 's no longer hitting the headlines , just a few small columns in the paper , so I ask you delegates , go back to your branches , raise the issue not just about coal but about all unemployment , chase up the media , write to your M P , especially the Tories , support the rallies and maybe a petition from this conference could be organized , but I say raise hell , give them no peace , one job loss is one too many and we ai n't gon na accept redundancy in any of our sections without a bloody good fight . |
| 18 | Through the half-open door , into the dry , shrivelling heat of the great , evil-smelling room , there appeared branchlike shapes and then a fall of blood-stained , leaflike hair . |
| 19 | I I think the the the point I would I wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as Mr Evans said earlier , that 's still being looked at . |
| 20 | If you show it you 're finished , without respect from your peers and always an underdog . |
| 21 | Cos Grant 's got lots and lots of books and quite a lot now but she loves books and she takes care of them as well . |
| 22 | It was a salutary experience for many pupils to hear , during a collaborative writing session , a whole series of vivid images and even a suggestion about what is required in order to create poetry , forcefully expressed by a Sutton pupil . |
| 23 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 24 | It is proposed to extend the car parking facilities with improved amenities and probably a café replacing the old caravan snack bar . |
| 25 | The parliament dissolved in February 1990 passed a comprehensive Companies Act and an Act on Foreign Investments in 1988 , and in 1989 an act on conversion of state enterprises and co-operatives into companies and also a statute reforming the land law in state and co-operative ownership . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm a major shareholder in a number of companies and consequently a director of them . |
| 27 | It contains a sensible stimulus , a great deal more federal spending , an energy tax , a guarantee of higher income tax for people and companies and only a promise of future spending cuts . |
| 28 | So there will be an accumulation of electrons on the surface of one of the plates and consequently a deficiency of electrons at the other plate 's surface . |
| 29 | His mum had got the caterers in back at the house and there were great plates of sandwiches and cakes and even a couple of barrels of Tetley 's out in the kitchen with the head waiter from the restaurant at Mary Ann Evans 's dispensing from the tap . |
| 30 | It 's sunny , and the clouds have form and shape , and underneath or away from the sun they are in shadow , greys and even a touch of brown . |