Example sentences of "and [det] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England will look back with regret on a first half which saw them produce only one score , and that a debatable penalty seven minutes before the interval . |
| 2 | Some judges and academic authorities favour a narrow and some a broad approach to the meaning of the term . |
| 3 | At death , in the moment of passing , all secure an entry , and some a lasting monument ; but of most people 's later life little is ever known , or now knowable . |
| 4 | DESIGNERS from both companies got together and half a joint exhibition of paintings in the Dick Institute , Kilmarnock which ran from 20th March-10th April , 1993 . |
| 5 | Simultaneously the work explores the very private , often hidden world of women 's personal everyday histories ; ‘ Each handbag has a particular personality of its own — on opening one a strong perfume filled the air , another was entirely practical , filled with hairpins and half a broken comb , a third contained a funeral card ’ . |
| 6 | The maids laughed as they did when they were alone and they brought her bread and half a roasted pigeon . |
| 7 | Heat two tablespoons of olive oil in a pan and sauté one tablespoon of finely chopped spring onion and half a crushed garlic clove until soft . |
| 8 | In the nine H pylori negative non-uraemic patients , one had erosive duodenitis and another a deformed duodenum . |
| 9 | All the bedrooms are en suite or with private facilities ; one has a four-poster and another a half-tester bed . |
| 10 | Care management practice , which has been mentioned earlier , is so fundamental to good community care and such a key part of Griffiths ' and the government 's proposals that a further word about it is necessary here . |
| 11 | ‘ She is an inspiration to everyone and such a lethal goal scorer we call her Gary Lineker . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She is an inspiration to everyone and such a lethal goal scorer we call her Gary Lineker . ’ |
| 13 | Where will you find in any of them so much Nature , Sweetness , Simplicity and Ease , and such a judicious Choice of new and enlivening Epithets ? |
| 14 | She 's a good athlete and I really like watching her , probably because she 's so young and such a good player . |
| 15 | " Any loss of genetic material in an endangered species with such a limited range and such a small population is a significant loss " . |
| 16 | The major exception is the ubiquitous iron knife , perhaps so common and such a personal item that it was felt to be expendable . |
| 17 | Bought as a second pony after she had grown out of Buttons , he had proved himself such a marvellous jumper and such a resolute galloper , Artemis could n't possibly imagine life without him . |
| 18 | And such a forced journey after — Who knew where death was lying in wait for him ? |
| 19 | It was fabulous because King Crimson had such a tremendous sound and such a tremendous image that for them to suddenly stand up and do a lot of Buddy Holly hits with Donovan singing vocals was really cute . |
| 20 | And then he has a study that has a similar wall of reference set of shelves and then I guess that maybe his bedroom has of this , but it 's erm and such a nice guy , a pleasant kind of man . |
| 21 | It had already shared dinner and such a tough mouse deserved all the nourishment it could get . |
| 22 | In doing so , he grazed his leg on an exposed tooth of his victim , and such a trivial scratch was ignored . |
| 23 | ‘ Father , when it became known that Saint Winifred 's relics had been loaded with the timber for Ramsey , when there was no longer any doubt of how it came there — for we knew , every man of us , that there was none , for who else could it have been ? — then I was burning with anger against the thief who had dared such sacrilege against her , and such a gross offence against our house . |
| 24 | Changes in water quality are rarely dramatic , but occur very gradually , and such a gross indicator rarely shows the direct impact of a field officer 's activities . |
| 25 | Extrapolate the trends of the last 40 years and such a depressing scenario looks like a dead cert . |
| 26 | Although there were many existing and potential foreign competitors in the car industry , car prices in Britain were already significantly higher than in other EC countries and such a dominant company could have made matters worse . |
| 27 | She had a long face and such a naked forehead , Daisy found herself turning her into a polo pony . |
| 28 | Ironside , who produced a string of spectacular saves , said : ‘ That 's the best performance I 've put up in front of the television cameras and such a big crowd . ’ |
| 29 | But as she shifted her gaze back to his eyes — eyes as brightly blue as the bluest summer sky and such a startling contrast with his almost-black hair — that momentary tremor inside her was extinguished . |
| 30 | Mr Lawson asserted that the right to a trial without delay had long been established : see Magna Carta Chapter 40 : and such a fundamental principle was valueless unless a court had power to enforce it by not tolerating abuse of its process . |