Example sentences of "[det] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The violence of this and a similar incident was greater than " anything I have seen in my life short of war " . |
| 2 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 3 | Only a few minshuku are geared to this and a Japanese breakfast of salted fish , rice and miso ( soup ) is all that is available . |
| 4 | All the difference in the world between somewhere as spacious as this and a crowded tube carriage . |
| 5 | And the ladies all when they were dressed they would have a skirt made of this and a frilly blouse with a high neck and er a silver buckled belt round their waist . |
| 6 | With this and a preliminary draft of the expenditure plans , ministers had to go on arguing until they reach an agreed compromise . |
| 7 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 8 | ‘ Would you show me a little bit of this and a little bit of that ? |
| 9 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 10 | This and a little piece of elastoplast denied the most outrageous element of the visit to Babylon . |
| 11 | All of this and a whole lot more , is yours when you open a Current Account with Midland . |
| 12 | While this and a later convent at Wynberg , Cape Town , were used exclusively by white people , the 1992 project is open to all races . |
| 13 | With this and a later inheritance he was able to indulge his passion for science by organising what might be considered the forerunners of today 's scientific conferences . |
| 14 | He also arranged to have a guitar I wished to sell collected on my behalf — all this and a wicked deal to boot ! |
| 15 | Outlaws from the forests to the south , grown over-bold ; let them be taken for that , and they might yet make another and a better attempt . |
| 16 | The fish needed to be good hardy species , compatible with one another and a pleasing range of colours . |
| 17 | That the members of the quintet will be ‘ bound ’ to each other in secret guilt by the cement of blood , having been tricked into thinking Shatov is a danger and must be removed , is another and a promising rationalization which reveals a local shrewdness like Iago 's . |
| 18 | It is clear that a standard definition of central and peripheral information is necessary before studies using this distinction can be compared with one another and a clear pattern of results described . |
| 19 | Sutcliffe makes a similar observation : " the real motivation for selecting one dialect or another has relatively little to do with the English class system as such and a great deal to do with ethnic and cultural identification . " |
| 20 | and you have n't eaten that much and a vegetarian pie is n't |
| 21 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 22 | On 15th February 1988 a Press Report stated that — two men from Nottinghamshire were fined £700.00 each and a third man £500.00 for killing two badger cubs — a crime to which they pleaded guilty . |
| 23 | They had four pints of beer each and a slap-up dinner in one of Huddersfield 's new swinging joints . |
| 24 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 25 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 26 | Brilliant staging is also the key to CYRANO DE BERGERAC ( Theatre Royal , Haymarket ) — that and a remarkable performance by Robert Lindsay ( aka Citizen Smith ) . |
| 27 | That and a whole lot of other chemicals , but dopamine is the main one . ’ |
| 28 | Only Ana 's predicament made it possible — that and a sneaky feeling of how wonderful it would be to get the better of el conde . |
| 29 | ‘ I never did understand , an old man like that and a five-star general to boot , why he went around dressed up like a nineteen-year-old Second Lieutenant , ’ said Truman , reminiscing years afterwards to Merle Miller . |
| 30 | I got that and a midi hi-fi system . |