Example sentences of "and [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 2 | A well-known publisher , Anthony Blond , writes ‘ The design and appearance of a general book matters but not too much : after all , printing is only a form of communication and rarely an end in itself . |
| 3 | He stopped short as the two women stared up at him , and suddenly an expression of relief washed the tension from his strongly chiselled features . |
| 4 | Two is set up to be a second clean channel , while three offers a ‘ crunch rhythm ’ facility and so an overdrive rotary joins the Lo and Hi EQ here . |
| 5 | Collecting bias seems to be greater for molars than for incisors , not surprising when it is considered that incisors are easier to locate in the pellets than are molars , and so an excess of incisors may be combined with a deficit of molars where there is collecting bias . |
| 6 | Mars , Cadbury and Rowntree between them controlled about 80 per cent of the market , and so an addition of 2 or 3 per cent would be unlikely to affect the competitive position ( refer to Table 2.4 ) . |
| 7 | This would not only reduce its political significance but it would allow for yearly increases ( though broadcasters have been quick to point out that the general rate of inflation is below the industry 's rate and so an increase would still leave a shortfall which can only be made up by savings ) . |
| 8 | Further examination revealed a hard swelling at the base of the penis and the question of a foreign body was raised with Mr P. He strongly denied inserting anything into his urethra and so an X-ray was taken . |
| 9 | This is usually a result of family and marriage ties and so an employer might expect young unattached female staff to be more willing to relocate than married women . |
| 10 | A larger , more flexible centre would be better — and perhaps an info pack about the centre with registration papers . |
| 11 | Different kinds of fish , seaweeds , sand , rocks on the sea bed , shells , and perhaps an octopus . |
| 12 | There are busy grey garbage boats , and postal boats , and perhaps an ambulance boat , and the virile motor launches of the customs and revenue people waiting to spring from their moorings on Giudecca . |
| 13 | For this project you will need a compass , pencil , ruler , plain paper , and perhaps an eraser . |
| 14 | The song is but brief , and perhaps an appreciation of Kerman 's penetrating , if occasionally purple , dissection and minute analysis would have been much easier to grasp had all the music been reproduced . |
| 15 | to your sandwiches and perhaps an apple or an orange instead |
| 16 | Higher birth-rates among ethnic-minority groups , urban house-building projects , the running down of the new-towns programme and perhaps an improvement in environmental conditions in the cities may all have contributed to this . |
| 17 | There is much talk of green shoots and perhaps an improvement in the next 12 months . |
| 18 | Considerably more detail is given in Chapter 7 , and only an outline of the major points as they contribute to understanding of this approach to soil erosion appears here . |
| 19 | Smaller stones about four to six inches long and only an inch wide which have broken ends could easily have been used to knock limpets off rocks . |
| 20 | The new channel will be obliged , at the start , to offer only half an hour a day of news and only an hour a week of current affairs . |
| 21 | Instead , Julius had erupted back into her life — and only an hour after she had decided to divorce him ! |
| 22 | ‘ And only an hour or so ago , ’ said Leonora wonderingly , ‘ I was thinking you 'd lost interest in me completely . ’ |
| 23 | This is an extremely complex field , and only an indication of three major provisions of the Act can be attempted here . |
| 24 | The body has been left unfinished , and only an oil sealant has been given to the wood to protect it . |
| 25 | Known as ‘ Fizzer ’ to his colleagues and our fans , Phil played in every game of Palace 's promotion season of 1988–89 and only an injury , sustained on his 1st Division debut at Queens Park Rangers , prevented him from completing full appearances in 1989–90 , although he was an ever-present member of the team that reached the 1990 FA Cup Final and so nearly seized the famous trophy . |
| 26 | The second main reason why handling grief is different these days is that death has become less and less an event that takes place within the confines of the family circle . |
| 27 | The selection of eighty-one canvases and other works of art has been made by Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery and long an admirer of Ryman 's work , which he showed at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1977 , and Robert Storr , Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art , New York . |
| 28 | Three great volleys of shot at the interring of the body , and lastly an herald of arms proclaimed his titles . ’ |
| 29 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 30 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |