Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the corners of the kitchen , where it fitted badly , it could be prised up , peeled backwards , waggled to and fro until a piece cracked , broke off . |
| 2 | The profit and loss account is here called a ‘ revenue ’ account ; and rather than a cash flow statement we have a set of capital accounts . |
| 3 | The labels , however , have fallen off or become illegible , and only if a character with Chemistry or Prepare Poisons makes a thorough ( 1 dose ) analysis coupled with a successful Int test will he know what they are . |
| 4 | But only because of the awful calamity of Hillsborough and only because a man of the intellect and vision of Lord Justice Taylor was asked for his opinion . |
| 5 | The beginner , or less experienced golfer , tops with embarrassing consequences , often from the 1st tee , and especially if a crowd has gathered to watch . |
| 6 | Any attempt to grapple with a holist theory will therefore have to separate its holist character from its other features , and especially where a theory is weak , it will be important to see whether the deficiency is the result of its being holist , or is due to something else . |
| 7 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 8 | Each individual has its own area of staging , and obviously after a dog has done well , other owners and members of the public are likely to want to come and see the winner . |
| 9 | On the wall to the right of the door was a small illuminated case with the label ‘ Appearing this week ’ , and below that a selection of coloured photographs was pinned to a board covered in cheap red plush . |
| 10 | The familiarity of this divide at least seems to show that we do not treat all behaviour as determined , and thus that a distinction between autonomous and non-autonomous individuals is part of our everyday conception of the world . |
| 11 | Quite quickly Horton enlisted the help of friends to act as an embryo staff for the new project , and soon after a sponsor was found to donate the use of her buildings in a rural area of Southern Appalachia . |
| 12 | He was lying on the offside lane and soon after a car went straight over him . ’ |
| 13 | And always when a funeral come down the school road , there 's blinds would be taken down as well . |
| 14 | Philip Jenkins has shown that in South Wales at the turn of the century Whig and Tory gentry were equal in terms of wealth and numbers , and further that a number of once firm Tory gentlemen converted to Whiggery after the Glorious Revolution . |
| 15 | With that , with that expression and like when a cat you go puss puss puss to a cat |
| 16 | This challenge can be very threatening to men and to white people , partly because changing your interpretation of the world is an uncomfortable experience , and partly because a change of attitudes inevitably causes social change , and this in turn brings about a shift in power relationships . |
| 17 | Edith Kerrison , the other woman member , however , successfully moved that two married women also be appointed and later that a member from the South West Ham Health Society be co-opted ( West Ham Council Minutes 23 November 18 ) . |
| 18 | When the court resumed at 2.30 , Mr John Lawrence , who had acted as stage manager at Reading , gave some inconsequential evidence which inferred that Drew was a violent man and also that a gun had gone missing from the stage props . |
| 19 | The effect of this is to make clear that registration as an RFL does not entitle the RFL to undertake work which may only be done by a solicitor , and also that an RFL must not put solicitors or recognised bodies in breach of rules , or other requirements of conduct . |
| 20 | Familiar with Scholl , but inclined to see the brand as very problem-specific , and also as a bit old-fashioned . |
| 21 | Market research is being applied in some sectors which lists the priorities customers expect and also where a business is falling short . |
| 22 | ‘ The case is of importance both because of its possible effect on Mr Anderson and also because an allegation of murder made in a civil action , particularly after an acquittal , is a matter of justifiable public concern and interest . |
| 23 | Jaross , a Data General and before that a DEC alumnus , had been director of educational services at DG and intends to make use of that background at Uniforum . |
| 24 | Up to 1980 , there were two and before that a number of riverside cottages at different times were shops . |
| 25 | Among the office holders named by the three leaders were : as secretary general Park Jun Byung , a DJP legislator since 1985 and before that an Army general who as commander of the 20th Division had been involved in the violent suppression of the 1980 Kwangju rebellion , a continuing source of bitterness within the South Korean political system ; as floor leader Kim Dong Young , former floor leader of the RDP and one of Kim Young Sam 's closest confidants ; and as chief policy maker Kim Yong Hwan , who had been elected to the National Assembly in 1987 and was one of the most experienced members of the NDRP . |
| 26 | Could we not have er I think procedure is could we not have the er er resolution for the at first and now that a ministry is in motion ? |
| 27 | The relative phenotypic homogeneity of this disease may , however , be the result of selection bias , and now that a DNA marker is available more variability may become apparent , as is seen in the other inherited prion diseases . |
| 28 | And now that an end to their confinement was in sight , they were both eager to be away . |
| 29 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 30 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |