Example sentences of "a [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of course , this was both a political and a disciplinary measure . |
| 32 | If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him ! |
| 33 | I wanted to understand the phenomenon at an individual , a social and a sociological level . |
| 34 | But it was an extension that in the first instance was of greatest benefit to the middle classes , who were , in both a social and a transportation sense , the mobile classes . |
| 35 | SUMMARY : The thermal histories of a Palaeozoic and a Tertiary coal have been investigated by laboratory simulation experiments in which a suite of samples , with natural maturities ranging from 0.4–3.0% vitrinite reflectance ( VR ) , were heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 36 | For example , if an a 2 and a b 2 vibration of a C 2ν , molecule are both singly excited , we calculate the representation of the final state like this : |
| 37 | The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at . |
| 38 | Others follow , the most interesting for a novice explorer being Long Kin East Cave which can be entered safely by either of two entrances , a wet and a dry , and with the help of a torch it can be penetrated by easy walking along a roomy stream passage for 200 yards . |
| 39 | A Bill of Rights would fulfil a different and a prior purpose . |
| 40 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 41 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 42 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 43 | This course component will adopt both a theoretical and a practical approach . |
| 44 | Last season there were also two one-cap players at Sussex , by P.W.G. Parker has now moved to Durham ( who incidentally now regularly field a Smith , a Brown and a Jones in the same side : truly a classless county ) . |
| 45 | Have you got a couple of settings on yours is it a high and a low ? |
| 46 | ‘ Ultra Violet ’ is both a brave and a foolhardy step . |
| 47 | The two database management systems are closely integrated to allow the solution of questions which have both a locational and a non-spatial content . |
| 48 | For example , one might propose that the mental lexicon is divided into a semantic and a phonological system , rather than being a unified whole , and that priming occurs in only one of these systems . |
| 49 | And he claims specifically that this is because writing itself has a dual , a poetic and a critical function . |
| 50 | The term ‘ hierarchy ’ suffers like that of ‘ bureaucracy ’ from having two meanings , a popular and a technical meaning . |
| 51 | It follows that applicants wishing to combine two popular fields are set stiffer conditions ( e.g. psychology with English BCC ) , while lower grades are asked of those choosing a popular and a less popular one ( e.g. psychology with chemistry DDD ) . |
| 52 | He was , said Frans Hellens , a Belgian writer whose portrait Modigliani painted in Nice , a charming and a strong-minded man but ‘ completely out of his element in this world ’ . |
| 53 | If people say that it is wrong that teachers should be allowed , even encouraged , to tell pupils that it is acceptable to live in a household in a particular form of sexual relationship , that goes beyond what is a proper and a responsible training for life in society . ’ |
| 54 | More sober advocates are content to imply that in Britain a Conservative constituency party would field a wet , a damp and a dry candidate , whilst Labour candidates would range from deep crimson to shell pink , and the Liberal Democrats would presumably run at least one ex-Liberal and one ex-SDP candidate . |
| 55 | It is essential at this point to try to understand what is happening to Burton since so much of his public life flows from the tensions between Hollywood and the English stage , between money and art , as it was thought , between philandering and fidelity , between a public and a private life . |
| 56 | So , too , was his teaching , an activity which he found invigorating , and which on both a public and a private place took up a great deal of his life , from 1905 until 1918 at the Westminster Art School , and subsequently at a wide range of other institutions . |
| 57 | The respondent 's contention is that there is a difference between a public and a private Act . |
| 58 | It should be noted that the Directive applies to trades , businesses and professions of both a public and a private nature , so that state owned enterprises are included within its ambit . |
| 59 | Both a male and a female holly must be planted to obtain a display of berries |
| 60 | They brought forth a male and a female child , Geb ( earth ) and Nut ( sky ) . |