Example sentences of "and [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | PATRICIA COCKBURN was the widow of the journalist Claud Cockburn and a remarkable and resourceful woman , an intrepid traveller , an inspired gardener and latterly a creator of shell paintings . |
| 2 | Contact is then set up between these groups and eventually a member of the computer department , called , usually , a systems analyst , will be assigned to assess the feasibility of such a system , and a communication or dialogue is begun between the systems analyst and members of the user department . |
| 3 | He also studied the problem of how a single original population becomes divided up into varieties ( subspecies ) and eventually a range of distinct ‘ daughter ’ species . |
| 4 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
| 5 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
| 6 | The following Friday evening , after spinach soufflé , baked potatoes with sour cream , and rather a lot of excellent claret , Clare found herself sitting naked to the waist in the firelight . |
| 7 | All that it takes is a little push , some minor inconvenience , a trifling price to pay for faith , some obligation or embarrassment involved in being a Christian , and suddenly a trail of doubts bubbles to the surface : ‘ Maybe after all … |
| 8 | There are difficulties assessing the child between the age of 2 and 4 years and so a range of different tests is used in an attempt to tap a wide range of the child 's skills and maintain the child 's interest and motivation to co-operate . |
| 9 | Disabled people meet substantial resistance to many choices , and so a range of communication , assertiveness and negotiation skills is needed . |
| 10 | As the child grows we aim to educate him or her in the constructive use of leisure time and so a range of extra-curricular activities is offered . |
| 11 | Language is made up of units that may be repeated sequentially ( e.g. papa ) or combined recursively ( e.g. Bill saw John in the car ) and so a way of recording competing interpretations is needed which distinguishes between different tokens of the same unit . |
| 12 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 13 | The Convention was a treaty entered into by the United States and so a part of federal law pre-empting State rules . |
| 14 | And so a couple of hours later , it was Burkett who drove the coach and four to the top of Dunmail Raise while Hope and Sylvia walked behind to spare the horses the effort , even though , as Burkett had pointed out , two passengers were light work for four horses . |
| 15 | Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism . |
| 16 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 17 | His father was probably steward of the king of Scotland as earl of Northampton , and so a baron of some standing , but not a tenant-in-chief ; Gilbert 's brother or nephew rose by marriage into this rank . |
| 18 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 19 | Ciaran Fitzgerald and the team will be all too aware that they let the fans down and so a repeat of that disaster in the remaining matches is most unlikely . |
| 20 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
| 21 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 22 | And so a sort of small welfare rights group began to form in the dayroom . |
| 23 | And so a lot of women continued to wear these erm rubber garments . |
| 24 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 25 | To argue that this is always and necessarily a result of ‘ conditioning ’ sounds like a feminist version of ‘ I do n't know what you housewives do all day ’ . |
| 26 | In this example , the possible description languages include all possible Cartesian frames of reference and all possible polar frames of reference , and perhaps a variety of other kinds of coordinate systems as well . |
| 27 | Although empathy has attracted considerable criticisms ( and perhaps a degree of misunderstanding ) a key objective in history teaching involves appreciation of how people in the past thought and felt . |
| 28 | During his ministerial years , however , he had used it relatively little — ten days at Christmas , a week in early August , and perhaps a couple of other visits during the year . |
| 29 | A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal . |
| 30 | According to the author of the Annals of Xanten ( he had been Louis the Pious 's court librarian and perhaps a protégé of the emperor 's wife in the 830s ) , " The Empress Judith , Charles 's mother , died at Tours , having had all her wealth taken from her by her son " . |