Example sentences of "a [noun pl] and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a swings and roundabout situation . |
| 2 | The company also offered to provide £30,000 towards the construction of a Sports and Social Centre , primarily for the mine employees , but also to be used by the people of Loughrea … |
| 3 | The National Deaf Club , as will be remembered , was originally founded for the oral deaf , but by the 1930s had become so well-established as a sports and social club for independent-minded deaf people who were mostly well-bred and upper-class , and so dominant in the Federation of London Deaf Clubs ' sports tournaments , that oral deaf people were once more isolated from social activities . |
| 4 | The appellant was the treasurer of a sports and social club ; he stole £4,567 from the club . |
| 5 | Mine , ’ she cried , ‘ is a warts and all story . |
| 6 | He now earns a guaranteed series of a concerts and special promotion by the Young Concert Artists Trust . |
| 7 | These days it has also a dependency in the mountains beyond , a winter-sports and high-summer Annexe , called Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin , at 5 , 500 feet . |
| 8 | US strategic installations and facilities in Liberia included ( i ) an Omega communications system allowing the tracking of shipping and submarine movements in the Atlantic ; ( ii ) a powerful Voice of America radio transmitter situated near Monrovia ; ( iii ) a communications and information-gathering centre at the embassy for contact with US embassies throughout Africa ; and ( iv ) refuelling facilities at Robertsfield airport for the US Air Force . |
| 9 | Habash was placed briefly in custody while in a Paris hospital to be questioned by an investigating magistrate about an arms and explosive cache found near Paris in 1986 and about several bombings and hijackings . |