Example sentences of "and [noun] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a parallel between East and West a slippery slope that we dare not set foot on . |
| 2 | To the south and west a secure boundary was provided by the sheer cliffs and jagged rocks of St Saviour 's Point , while running right down to the edge of the cliffs and enclosing the whole of the rest of the property was a high stone wall built two centuries before by Edmund Roscarrock , the founder of the family line . |
| 3 | John Kenny played with drama and panache a whole range of effects from his first entry , in which his breath metamorphosed into sound , to talking and singing while playing and producing chords . |
| 4 | A large area , part wooded and part a rocky summit , situated just north of Broombriggs on B.591 , providing a fine viewpoint over a large part of the Midlands . |
| 5 | Each year in February and March a different decade is remembered , with the festival reaching its climax in the year 2000 . |
| 6 | Finally , for both Wimsatt and Brooks a defining characteristic of poetry was irony . |
| 7 | One of them comes tottering up to him , falls , and pitches a red plastic fire-engine at his feet . |
| 8 | Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths has given Sega and Nintendo a three-week deadline to act . |
| 9 | Charles had a pint and Gerald a dry martini ( Charles almost expected him to ask for it ‘ shaken not stirred ’ ) . |
| 10 | The main innovators of this transformation were not scientists but artists , especially Alberti , Brunelleschi and Leonardo , who created on their canvases and in their architecture and treatises a new conception of space . |
| 11 | She 's lucky to have a doctor who just says bed rest and signs a sick note and |
| 12 | In She and Allan a substantial subplot concerning the kidnapping of half-Portuguese Inez Robertson by the Amahaggar and her rescue by Allan and Umslopagaas , and the tremendous duel between the Zulu warrior and Ayesha 's gigantic adversary Reza , lightens the inflated , intense musings of the goddess woman . |
| 13 | Theorem 1.5.1 ( Fermat 's Little Theorem ) Let p be a ( positive ) prime and n a positive integer . |
| 14 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 15 | These latter tend to accord creativity and inventiveness a higher status than incremental progress . |
| 16 | Despite considerable research and investment a large discrepancy exists between human and computer recognition of speech . |
| 17 | And Jay was pacing her attic , bars tightening and cracking around a heart that would not stop hurting ; she could not lay her body down though it screamed for rest and knots of fury made her neck and shoulders a steely hunch like a vulture . |
| 18 | Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre . |
| 19 | In the far north-east and Karnchatka a common marriage practice was the residence of the husband in the family of his bride for a certain period of time , in order to pay for her by performing work for the family . |
| 20 | BRENDA gave her daddy and mummy a big surprise when she told them what she wanted most of all for her birthday . |
| 21 | Of particular interest to this group will be Supplements C , a 60-bed sub-unit for elderly patients , D a 60-bed sub-unit for geriatric psychiatry patients , E a 60-bed subunit for psychiatric patients in district general hospital and F a 48–60-bed sub-unit for mentally handicapped patients ( it is this last supplement which has formed the basis for the so-called " Merchiston Units " ) . |
| 22 | As for centre backs I 've no idea — ideally I 'd like to see him give half wit and Weatherall a good go along with Tinkler , Forrester and Sharp as I really ca n't see us winning the league after Saturdays shite performance . |
| 23 | Nearly all the Embiricos vases — which range from black- to red- figure , include white-ground Lekythoi , and presente a representative sample of Greek vase types — are by known painters , making this an exceptionally interesting group . |
| 24 | He puts on his best bib and tucker and books a top restaurant for a romantic dinner . |
| 25 | You would n't like to make me and Jean a nice cup of tea would you please , darling . |
| 26 | Another possible exercise is to lie on your back and bench-press a light weight very quickly over , say , ten repetitions . |
| 27 | ‘ And thanks a bloody bunch . |
| 28 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 29 | The cup triumph will go a long way to easing the memory of their loss to Waringstown in the final of the Touche Ross Senior Cup last month and caps a solid season for the Comber side . |
| 30 | We routinely boil crabs and lobsters alive , and consider eating live clams and oysters a gastronomic treat ! |