Example sentences of "and [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the context only the vineyard is really meant , for the following verse refers to " it " as having a stone fence-which points to a single parcel of ground , and that a vineyard , not a field . |
| 2 | I 'm not really some of them do , the younger ones and that a bit . |
| 3 | And that a bit of meat there . |
| 4 | Apart from very old and antique items , the only contemporary rugs to fall into this category are masterworkshop rugs , and possible a handful of the very finest items produced by a few " high category " groups . |
| 5 | The upsurge in public concern over environmental quality issues during the latter half of 1969 led to the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act , which was passed with limited debate or opposition despite it being so fundamental and innovative a measure . |
| 6 | Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ? |
| 7 | That 's where you can smoke and a hundred and fifty a day ! |
| 8 | Well if , you 're gon na pay a hundred and fifty a night |
| 9 | I mean , a hundred and fifty a week — that 's as much as I 'd 've expected you to get for actually acting . ’ |
| 10 | He had to be on three hundred and fifty a week minimum , surely ? |
| 11 | ‘ But that 's only a hundred and fifty a week . ’ |
| 12 | It 's almost quadrupled to three hundred and fifty a month . |
| 13 | Well that 's gon na be about two hundred and forty , two hundred and fifty a month for that one down . |
| 14 | You could volunteer to pay two hundred and fifty a month could n't you ? |
| 15 | If I want to but I wo n't cos I 'll be on a hundred and fifty a month anyway . |
| 16 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 17 | After that maryed to William Lambarde , Gent the 28th July 1583 and died the 1st Sept. 1587 , leaving on lyve by William Dalyson , Sylvestre , a daughter and Maximillian a son ; and by William Lambarde , Multon , a son , Margaret a daughter and Gore and Fane sonnes and twins " . |
| 18 | to accept as one of their primary aims and responsibilities the achievement and maintenance of as high and stable a level of employment as possible , with a view to the attainment of full employment . |
| 19 | We wanted the co-operation of the public so it was important to convey the clues in as relaxed and conversational a way as possible . |
| 20 | West Indian families , for example , now in the seventies and early eighties are probably smaller than the equivalent British families — Indian and Pakistani a bit bigger . |
| 21 | More Italian bomber reinforcements reached Sicily , the 99° Gruppo ( 242 a and 243 a Squadriglia ) of the 43° Stormo B.T. arriving at Gerbini under Ten.Co . |
| 22 | The solution of silica which had saturated the dead organisms and solidified into chert was clearly as fine-grained and durable a preservative as exists . |
| 23 | The professional , however , will wish to express the notion in as general and concise a way as possible . |
| 24 | During 1970 and 1971 a series of articles and editorials appeared in the Times on the poor quality of TVZ transmissions , particularly on the Copperbelt . |
| 25 | For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon , and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late , that she was a frontier province of the Greek world ; beyond lay Illyrians , Dardanians and Thracians , and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe , undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower . |
| 26 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 27 | Two other changes brought about by the 1988 Act make it important that other aspects of policy are also managed in as full and collegial a manner as possible . |
| 28 | It is as if between 1927 and 1934 a party unequivocally committed to a sectarian strategy on the political front nevertheless consciously chose to hedge its bets on the cultural front . |
| 29 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 30 | One hand rests between his cheek and the pillow , cupping his head almost maternally ; the other , hairy but oddly sensitive for so big and coarse a man , lies outside the sheet . |