Example sentences of "an [noun] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was quite an experience and quite a contrast from er life in good old England . |
| 2 | Yeah anyhow I think she 's hoping to come to tomorrow cos erm , idea in the air that on Maundy Thursday instead of having an ordinary mums and toddlers we 'll have a in church for half an hour and then a run around cups of coffee with the big toys in the hall , a good idea |
| 3 | when he was an Advocate and then a QC and Kate Mitchell , who works for Christies , because David succeeded her father , after his death , as Professor of European Governmental Studies before he , David , was recently promoted to the EC Judiciary . |
| 4 | This is a data structure with a condition an action and maybe a name other details . |
| 5 | First , it was his knee , then an achilles and finally a broken finger . |
| 6 | Even so , where money changes hands , it is part of an exchange and thus an expression of the social relationship which exists between the two individuals concerned . |
| 7 | And yet a similar bipedal dinosaur in size and appearance to T. Rex was Trachodon , but it was an ornithischian and therefore a herbivore . |
| 8 | But as Rome became first an Italian and then a Mediterranean power , it became inevitable that the Roman people should have contact with Greeks and with Greek art . |
| 9 | So style need not occur in all texts : for example , Eliza 's " Not bloody likely " in Pygmalion by Shaw has an expressiveness and therefore a style ; while the otherwise equivalent monosyllable " No " does not . |
| 10 | Zielinski ordered criminal proceedings against a Warsaw hospital which had refused a patient an abortion and even an examination of the state of her pregnancy . |
| 11 | It was as if someone had asserted that it was inconceivable that a mammal should lay an egg and then a duck-billed platypus had turned up . |
| 12 | But , although in its twisting and turning a line may circumscribe an area and even a volume , it is not a description or an experience of them . |
| 13 | However , as the relaxed exclusionary rule is formulated , this is , with respect , both an over-simplification and perhaps an over-optimistic analysis . |
| 14 | Since the company owns the cash , it is an asset and therefore a capital account . |
| 15 | Since the company owns the cash , it is an asset and therefore a capital account . |
| 16 | Sheffield-born and daughter of a cutlery master , she was herself notably active , running an allotment and still a working cutler : a woman with ‘ plenty of initiative and business capacity . |
| 17 | At one point the father decides that the thing to do is ‘ immolate an albino and also a red dog ’ . |
| 18 | Producers , writers and art directors all come and go , but a production department is vital in an agency and here a certain stability reigns . |
| 19 | For my dinner then I 'd have er jacket potato with tuna then about four o'clock I would have an apple and an orange and maybe a Mars Bar cos right . |
| 20 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |