Example sentences of "and [noun] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other . |
| 2 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
| 3 | The explanation usually offered for this phenomenon is that subjects implicitly attach a verbal label to pictures and objects and hence a verbal memory trace as well as a pictorial memory trace is established . |
| 4 | In two of the three morbidly obese subjects , there was an absence of the early urinary APGPR immunoreactivity peaks in concentration and excretion and only a slow rise in urinary APGPR concentration at four to six hours . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There were tall trees here and there on either side , oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But — the thought upset her — would there be any spare money , any pocket-money , for her own small , personal needs , shampoos and stockings and perhaps a little face-cream , that sort of thing ? |
| 9 | I must have one Sunday in the year when we have Sunday lunch at mid-day and not in the evening , because , you know I get to carol services on And he said oh that 's alright , mum and dad eat mid-day anyway so they only want , erm , they only want biscuits and cake and maybe a bit of bread and butter what can you do ? |
| 10 | Emily thought ruefully of the sumptuous meals she used to eat at Summer Lodge , the tempting courses of meat and fish and then a carefully concocted pudding that melted in the mouth . |
| 11 | The wine villages of Alsace also sound decidedly Germanic with names such as Marlenheim , Turckheim , Riquewihr and Ammerschwihr and here a curious German dialect is often spoken . |
| 12 | Women make up over two-fifths of APA boards and committees and over a third of its main governing bodies . |
| 13 | So , after two years of design and development and nearly a year in the building , what happens now ? |
| 14 | As Table 11 indicates , a fifth of the sample expected to spend under £500 during 1984/5 , just over another fifth between £500 and £1,500 , just over a quarter between £1,500 and £3,000 and approximately a further quarter over £3,000 . |
| 15 | The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently . |
| 16 | The instrument panel and avionics fit were much more comprehensive than the average trainer , with ADF , RNav , Decca , and HSI and even a radio altimeter . |
| 17 | No doubt we will feel better without the pain and discomfort and often a spell away from the stressful situation will alleviate some of the effects . |
| 18 | The soft part of the contract includes low maintenance grass areas , high quality formal rolling lawns backing onto the buildings , putting greens for use by both patients and staff and also a children 's green . |
| 19 | He never married , but there were nieces and nephews and always a stream of people staying . |
| 20 | As the manual tells you , by holding certain stitches in holding ( E ) position and knitting the remaining stitches in sequence you can work shoulder shaping , neck shaping , sock heels and toes and even a shaped hemline on skirts , while most attractive full skirts can be made on the same principle . |
| 21 | Out of sight , shielded by riot and revelry and now a quarter of a century older , lurks the poet who boasted he had not shown his young mug in Poor People : the sober laborious craftsman determined that his tone shall save everything . |
| 22 | Directions and instructions and also a description of the Grimoire itself are contained in there . |
| 23 | In wartime , stations have been since the days of the American Civil War an essential element in the transportation of men and materials and consequently a military target of the first importance . |
| 24 | Not for the faint-hearted , the fair could reduce even the most hardened Frankfurt Book Fair stalwart to a whimpering wreck with its miles of cut-glass , Capo di Monte and leathergoods and scarcely a book in sight . |
| 25 | Gas accounted for some 3% of energy consumption in 1983 and the first energy plan projected increasing this through more LNG imports from Libya and Algeria and possibly a direct pipeline link with Algeria — the Segamo project . |
| 26 | ( An attempt to hold elections in November 1987 was called off when voters were massacred by Duvalierist gangs ; the subsequent poll , held in January 1988 , was dominated by Duvalierist candidates and involved considerable fraud and intimidation and only a fraction of the electorate participated — see p. 35697-98 ; 25698-99 . ) |
| 27 | As two independent companies , now of roughly equivalent size , they felt both a spiritual bond against the major companies such as EMI and Warners and also a natural sense of rivalry . |
| 28 | To the English critic ‘ HD ’ the word ‘ cinema ’ conjured up memories of ‘ crowds and crowds and saccharine music and longdrawn out embraces and the artificially enhanced thuds-off of galloping bronchoes ’ and then again ‘ boredom , tedium , suffocation , pink lemonade , saw-dust even , old reactions connected with cheap circuses , crowds and crowds and illiteracy and more crowds and breathless suffocation and ( in America ) peanut shells and grit and perhaps a sudden collapse of jerry-built scaffoldings ’ . |
| 29 | No , he 's got some very strong views on the issues to do with computer literacy training and requirements and possibly a way of managing that together with all the other things . |
| 30 | The remaining dancers , holding each other very close , slowly circled the floor , which was littered with discarded flowers and dance-cards and even a pair of silk gloves . |