Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in that case , the elaborate precautions to avoid eye contact could be read as a suspicion of his motives and thereby create a second order of virtual offence . |
| 2 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 3 | Hot enough to sit out in the Piazza studded with big brown and green palms against the rose-coloured stucco of the buildings and perhaps try a first ricotta ice-cream . |
| 4 | For example , if your theme is pink , you could choose a pink silk background and no mount for one picture , have a pink mount with a cream silk backing for another picture , choose a cream card with a pink wash line around the aperture and pink paper behind the mount for a third , and perhaps create a fourth with a plain cream satin background . |
| 5 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 6 | Bede not only compiled a detailed account of this important Synod but in another of his treatises , De temporum ratione ( ‘ On the Reckoning of Time ’ ) , written in 725 and generally regarded as his scientific masterpiece , he computed Easter tables for the period 532 to 1063 and also made a first attempt at a general chronology of the world down to the reign of the contemporary Byzantine emperor , Leo the Isaurian . |
| 7 | I remember buying food and drink for the funeral buffet , and also attending a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary party on the Saturday evening . |
| 8 | Deutsche once thought about bidding , thought not , and now has a last chance to think again . |
| 9 | The cows have a long , flat lactation curve and readily adopt a second calf for suckling , and are considered easy to care for as housecows . |
| 10 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 11 | It is obviously wasteful nonsense for a district nurse needing a new dressing for a patient to have to return to the surgery , tell the doctor what is needed , possibly even draft the prescription for him , get the prescription dispensed by a pharmacist and then make a second visit to the patient to apply the dressing . ’ |
| 12 | Shearer 's penalty capped a remarkable and decisive seven-minute spell in which Southampton , leading thanks to a 13th minute Iain Dowie header , had seen their visitors come back into the game with a 62nd minute equaliser from Les Ferdinand and then miss a 67th minute penalty through Clive Wilson . |
| 13 | Because I think there has been a trend , has there not , in recent years where people tend to take a main holiday perhaps on the continent and then have a second holiday in this country . |
| 14 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 15 | I continued to assume that BW were happy about the proposal , and indeed had a second site meeting with Mr. , at which details of the sections of towpath , methods of work , and types of materials to be used were discussed — surely an indication that there were no significant problems . |
| 16 | The result is that a student may have answered half the paper in a manner worthy of a Law Lord , and yet obtain a third class because he has not answered the other half . |