Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This child was the first human , strung between two worlds — born of a prince and a sky goddess . |
| 2 | After so long of acquiescence , the Welsh felt themselves Welsh again , a nation with a prince and a prophet of their own . |
| 3 | As he put his hand inside there was a squawking and a scrabbling of claws and flapping wings . |
| 4 | Then we 've got a base plus an acid , what 's the difference again between a base and an alkali ? |
| 5 | So that 's an acid plus a metal , now an acid plus a base which is this one we 've just done , a metal oxide the metal oxides are bases , er you can think of them as being alkaline , we call it basic but very very similar sort of thing to alkaline okay so what happens with a base and an acid ? |
| 6 | With a base and an acid |
| 7 | Right great and what happens what seems to be happening with a base and an acid or an acid and a base ? |
| 8 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 9 | A project may be interdisciplinary , and require the contributions of an engineer , a scientist , a statistician and a production expert , who would each be appointed to the team from their functional department , whilst still retaining membership and status within their ‘ home ’ department , ie : |
| 10 | ‘ You 're nothing but a brute and a bully ! |
| 11 | If perhaps we regard it just as a , a technicality and an amendment of wording and where the statement of case prepared by the officers reads the development of a fifth terminal at Heathrow is supported in principal . |
| 12 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 13 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 14 | Yes , I have my husband back there and I have a sister and a brother . |
| 15 | Now I come to think of it , I do n't know much about her family at all — only that she 's got a sister and a mother somewhere in the States . ’ |
| 16 | We know that you have commanded a submarine and the Lieutenant-Commander was your first lieutenant . |
| 17 | I was at a jumble sale the other day and managed to buy a bucket and a coat . |
| 18 | An attendant from the tabernacle came along with a bucket and a sponge on a stick . |
| 19 | At Coventry in that year , when the two sitting MPs ( both of whom were " eminent Tackers " ) returned to contest the election , they were greeted by a huge crowd of local supporters , lay and clerical , who marched in a ritualistic procession carrying a maypole and a banner with a picture of a church on both sides . |
| 20 | He had a new studio , a real home was about to swing into life , and , most wonderful of all , he had a studio with a cradle and a baby 's pot in it . |
| 21 | He had known the reality of a home of sorts , with a cradle and a baby in it . |
| 22 | 9.20 Limitation on liability Before leaving the provisos it may be worthwhile to include the following additional proviso : On an assignment of this Lease in pursuance of the Landlord 's licence authorising the assignment the Landlord shall forthwith at the assignor 's cost release the assignor from its future liability under this Lease in such form as the Landlord shall reasonably require Although this is unlikely to find favour with the landlord , it should perhaps be considered having regard to a recession and the outcry from tenants who , having assigned their leases , are being called upon to pay accumulating back rents as a result of the insolvency of the current tenant . |
| 23 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 24 | Bathrooms , a kitchen and a utility room , needing only small windows , were located behind this elevation ( Fig 38 ) . |
| 25 | Downstairs I find a through room , a kitchen and a john . |
| 26 | They also had a bedroom , and a kitchen and a bathroom — all poor little rooms . |
| 27 | There 's one bedroom and a living room and a kitchen and a bathroom and it 's qu they 're quite sizeable really I mean they 're not |
| 28 | Any role has both a function and a status ; it is effectively a combination of the above . |
| 29 | Resource is therefore not the problem with synthetic fuels and the progress or lack of it in the industry is a function and a consequence of the price and availability of hydrocarbons . |
| 30 | However , in the same way that nature abhors a vacuum , so also concepts demand a function and the concept of unreasonableness in its substantive sense is no exception to this . |