Example sentences of "and [adv] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We offer the other hand , and eventually a life line is discovered , although it 's so short it appears that we died several years ago . |
2 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
3 | Rose pulls at a handle , and somewhere a bell dances . |
4 | The concept clearly was meant to establish a College in the broad sense of a learned foundation , whereas what emerged almost inevitably , from the actual circumstances of its establishment and funding , degenerated into what was to remain for a century basically and predominantly a horse infirmary . |
5 | And so a Harlow councillor who was elected in nineteen eighty eight , yeah ? |
6 | It is easier for the lecturer to write than for the student to look at a distant blackboard and then back to his so-called " notes " , and so a phase difference develops between the blackboard and the class . |
7 | This means that a dominant rat can be identified by its call , and so a rat colony can maintain its hierarchy without unnecessary fighting . |
8 | This means that the sample has no way of dissipating a large applied stress , other than by bond rupture , and so a polymer glass is prone to brittle fracture . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | They include a barbecue , a pizza and punch party , a rendezvous at a local restaurant , and perhaps a salad buffet at one of the apartments . |
11 | The programme of research is focused around three topics : technical aspects of geographical information system ( GIS ) technology , a number of demonstrator projects as ‘ show-piece ’ GISs , and perhaps a pilot data library for the North of England . |
12 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
13 | Where flint waste is found there are usually hammer stones and perhaps a stone anvil . |
14 | It is worth bringing home olive oil which is produced in profusion here , and perhaps a dessert wine from the incredible terraced slopes which cling to the hillside of the Cinque Terre . |
15 | A service between midnight and 0700 should be the responsibility of family health services authorities , which could arrange for visits and perhaps a night time surgery . |
16 | It may be necessary to get reports from an orthopaedic surgeon , a neurologist and perhaps a plastic surgeon . |
17 | Many IDE cards have combined serial and parallel printer ports and perhaps a game port . |
18 | The flowers offer no reward and deceive the insects by appearing to offer food and perhaps a brood place , so that the plant is doubly parasitic on the liane and on the bluebottle . |
19 | If you suffer from repeated Cystitis attacks , your doctor , and perhaps a hospital specialist will need to carry out tests to diagnose your particular problem . |
20 | Set up in 1942 under the unpromising name of the Taxation and Financial Relations Committee , the TAC was designed to provide a forum ( and perhaps a safety valve ) for the growing number of business members who at that time were excluded from Council membership , but who wished to contribute their business experience to the consideration of taxation and financial issues . |
21 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |
22 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
23 | Initially they planned a series of gigs but Mike Joyce fell ill and only a New York Danceteria date on New Year 's Eve remained . |
24 | Wakefield was a court creature , and only a draught animal at that . |
25 | Given that an increase in general prices of 10% causes a 20% rise in the price of kryptonite futures and only a 5% rise in the price of phlogiston futures , the spread ratio which ensures that Lois is unaffected by the differential response of kryptonite and phlogiston futures prices to changes in the general level of prices is ( F 1 β 1 ) / ( F s β s ) = ( 50 × 2 ) / ( 10 × 0.5 ) = 20 . |
26 | Only ten per cent of the items in the Hatfields store were made from the tropical hard wood and only a minute proportion of those goods were made from solid mahogany . |
27 | Since there are few books indexed under " swords " , the " history of swords " searcher may well be prepared to look through them all ; there are thousands of books under " history " , and only a minute proportion will contain anything of relevance to this searcher . |
28 | On this occasion , Richard Baxter was again released on a technicality because his ‘ offence ’ was committed in the city , and only a city judge had the authority to sign the warrant . |
29 | The angle can be anywhere between 10 and 25 degrees at this stage , and only a flight test will show whatever change is needed . |
30 | The EC Commissioner for the Environment , Carlo Ripa di Meana , refused to attend UNCED in protest at the Community 's failure to agree a joint policy programme on the key summit issues and especially a carbon tax [ see p. 38943 for his resignation on becoming Italian Environment Minister ] . |