Example sentences of "and [indef pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 More than a quarter of a millennium of Guinnesses ; every one at the head of the company and everyone a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Richard Guinness ( 1 ) ( c. 1690–1766 ) of Celbridge , Co .
2 They can payout 15 per cent in a good year and nothing the next .
3 The old man was shouting hoarsely , and someone a long way off was answering — and running , too , for she could feel the vibration of rapid footsteps .
4 The little woman , instead of having to explain the spending of twenty-five shillings of the housekeeping money on a half bottle of " cooking " brandy , would be at liberty to raid the Scotch for a few tablespoonsful at any time , and nobody the wiser .
5 Gutters and downpipes , once made of cast iron , are now nearly always of PVC , and none the worse for that except that they need more frequent supports .
6 Agnes watched her walk to the gate , as spry as a sparrow , and none the worse it seemed for her tumble .
7 In the case of the Leet-Judson-Kauffman Physical Geology the reason is clear ; the book is a crammer and none the worse for that .
8 He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing .
9 And none the worse . ’
10 He had been cocky himself once , and none the worse for it now .
11 Its mystical character was marvellously caught by the young players whose approach to the work as a whole was a shade more romantic than many and none the worse for that .
12 It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way .
13 It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way .
14 it 's been two next door neighbours , one a bank manager and one a chief executive of a company .
15 Of the four cases found in this period two had non-Hodgkin lymphomas , one Hodgkin 's disease , and one a pineal tumour ; the excess is mainly attributable to non-Hodgkin lymphomas .
16 There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame .
17 During the last three months of treatment five patients taking enalapril displayed a persistent normoalbuminuria , five a low microalbuminuria , and one a high microalbuminuria , whereas in the hydrochlorothiazide group one patient had persistent normoalbuminuria , three low microalbuminuria , and six high microalbuminuria ( χ² ; =6.7 ; p=0.03 ) .
18 Are n't there three of you in Marcus tonight , and one a senior staff nurse ?
19 A couple had sun goggles around their necks and one a blood-stained bandage on his face .
20 That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time .
21 You said that erm sometimes the mums one would sit on one side of the street and one the other skipping w
22 one chap feeding the mill and one the other chap then giving him the and the other chap was working below taking away the straw and looking after the grain .
23 This is what he hoped for , and one the many things that tended to dispirit him was the fact that it was so little forthcoming .
24 Some limited bit significance is provided by splitting the operation code field into two portions , one specifying the instruction group and one the particular instruction within the group .
25 Eleven of these patients had rectal or rectosigmoid adebicarcinoma ( including one with cancerous change in a villous adenoma ) , one had direct rectal invasion from cervical cancer , and one an extensive villous adenoma ( with no documented focus of adenocarcinoma ) .
26 Of 11 patients with complete heart block in association with acute myocardial infarction , 10 patients had an inferior and one an anterior myocardial infarction .
27 They sent matched pairs of simulated curriculum vitaes — one bearing an English name and one an Asian name — in response to 23 advertisements for senior house officer posts .
28 The third paper assessed cognition and psychiatric symptoms in fifteen patients given a trial of clozapine ( thirteen had schizophrenia , one a schizoaffective illness and one an unspecified psychosis ) .
29 Now the decimal equivalent of hundred and twenty is one point two and there you 've got nought and nought a hundred and one so ninety percent is point nine , eighty percent is point eight and a hundred and ten percent is one point one , and a hundred and twenty percent is one point two .
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