Example sentences of "and [adv] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limitation date can , in due course , convert to an ASO date if the case is issued in the county court and eventually a disposal or provisional damages review date . |
| 2 | In any garden one has to think of the practical as well as the more decorative elements and so a shed and compost area were included . |
| 3 | The Editor agreed and so a day or two later my edited statement was published in Burmese on the front page of the New Light of Burma in a translation which U Khin Maung , my talented and faithful Information Officer , approved . |
| 4 | It was a zip-up pocket intended for golf balls and perhaps a pipe or a pair of gloves . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't mind a cup of something , ’ he said to Owen , so that the donkey-boys could hear , ‘ and perhaps a bite or two . |
| 6 | Oh no it was a that would be a misnomer if ever there was one , because there was room for a table and four chairs and perhaps a settee and that was it . |
| 7 | Linked to the new fashions of semi-detached houses with private gardens , and perhaps a drive and garage for a car , in a setting of more abundant open space , in an environment of modernity where new schools were particularly welcome by a child-rearing local population , and in a social milieu of middle-class respectability , the private building boom created ever-expanding suburban estates . |
| 8 | In the early years of the century , laboratories were for one or two people , with assistants and perhaps a friend or two to watch , to perform research ; or else to carry out routine analyses for a fee ; or a mixture of these things . |
| 9 | The economics of all such awards are sound : give away a substantial sum of prize money ( preferably the biggest that most seductive word ) , spend a little more on promotion , and , most essential , appoint as judges a judicious mixture of ancient worthies , the current great and good , a television personality or some such , and perhaps a critic or museum man to add some small semblance of probity to the proceedings . |
| 10 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 11 | to your sandwiches and perhaps an apple or an orange instead |
| 12 | They had no windows or windscreen and only a canopy and storm curtains for protection . |
| 13 | More than half of them have now perished and only a score or more will survive into the next century . |
| 14 | If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime . |
| 15 | However , the search still proved too expensive , even given the constraints of the data and the knowledge graph , and only a band or ‘ beam ’ of hypotheses was pursued in parallel through the graph . |
| 16 | ‘ And only an hour or so ago , ’ said Leonora wonderingly , ‘ I was thinking you 'd lost interest in me completely . ’ |
| 17 | Wycliffe said : ‘ In 1931 , as I work it out , Garland would have been twenty-one and already a husband and father . ’ |
| 18 | , Thomas ( fl. 1589–1638 ) , land surveyor , was certainly practising by 1589 and possibly a year or two earlier . |
| 19 | Likewise , Charlie 's old school is not an entity that has the property of old-school-ness ; this is not a property of which English speakers would make frequent use , but it might be possible employ it in cases where something had the characteristic of " being a school in an old way " — perhaps with extensive use of wax tablet and stylus , and possibly a slave or two for the menial work . |
| 20 | Imitation or role modelling by children describes the way that they copy the actions or behaviour of someone they admire , usually of their own sex and possibly a parent or even a tv character . |
| 21 | In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century . |
| 22 | The second view is that since we are always part of the knowledge equation , we can never know if there is a ‘ real ’ world , and hence knowledge is everywhere and always a human and social construction of , or placed upon , reality , whose form will vary ; the organization of knowledge is therefore artificial and relative . |
| 23 | Most have much faster , more clipped flight , wings being brought in and out again in quick jerks , and also a wing-clapping and gliding display flight . |
| 24 | In most areas LEAs have well-organised inter or multi-cultural support services and also an inspector or advisor with special responsibilities for this work . |
| 25 | the game is on monday … broadcasted live over here in europe by SkySport. which means that halvard will leave home heading for a pub with SkySport and probably a pint or five ( depends on the result ) … |
| 26 | And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there , you know . |
| 27 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 28 | And here a car and trailer are too close to the vehicle ahead and ca n't break in time . |
| 29 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 30 | You 've got a good chance of seeing the rarer migrant butterflies here , as well as buzzards , kestrels , and even a hobby or peregrine falcon . |