Example sentences of "a [adj] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 2 | It should be noted that the relationship between such a differential and the ultimate goals of the union is not discussed ( a point to which we return briefly ) , and that the premium is taken as exogenous . |
| 3 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 4 | No one stepped forward , no one seemed to be on the lookout for a stranger and the other passengers quickly dispersed . |
| 5 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 6 | If as a GP you are in somebody 's home and give a thrombolytic and the patient dies , you will be blamed . |
| 7 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 8 | It was n't a bad meal , but it was a rip-off and the service was appalling . |
| 9 | This was the man whom Mary of Guise described to Sadler as ‘ a simple and the most inconstant man in the world ; for whatsoever he determineth today , he changeth tomorrow ’ ; and there were plenty of people in Scotland to help him to change from his position of March 1543 . |
| 10 | A bonus of £10,000 was available at the hole for a hole-in-one and the American 's tee shot landed a foot beyond the hole and spun back to a foot short of the hole . |
| 11 | He was made a trusty and the other prisoners got on well with him . |
| 12 | Two fours , a six and the odd wicket , and that 'll be your lot . |
| 13 | A solution of the Ernst equation ( 11.17 ) is then given by ( 12.56 ) where α is a constant and the functions and are obtained by integrating the equations ( 12.57 ) The boundary conditions then have to be applied . |
| 14 | I bit her nose — only a little and the tiniest bit of blood . |
| 15 | Sometimes the inlet pipe can be eased over a little and the overflow trimmed to suit . |
| 16 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 17 | Paul had asked me to do a swap to do his early next Wednesday so yeah , put the form in and everything the form came back today saying he 's already on a late and the day that he 's supposed to be repaying me he 's already on shift |
| 18 | The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all . |
| 19 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 20 | These parts are , at best , inefficient in a P-40 and the result is overheating so their taxi time has to be kept to an absolute minimum . ) |
| 21 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 22 | Yes here I am lift him , so erm yeah so you just do a grey and the green |
| 23 | Before mixing , one is the upper state of a fundamental and the other the upper state of an overtone or combination band . |
| 24 | Artur Greisser , a Nazi and the Danzig nominee on the Harbour Board , went to the office of one of the Polish engineers on the Board and threatened him with a revolver . |
| 25 | His only blemish on the front nine was at the second hole dropping shots at 14 and 15 brought it to four under but a good birdie at 16 and a level par finish gave him a 66 and the course record by two shots . |
| 26 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 27 | Applications including a cv and the names and addresses of two referees should be sent to the Deputy Administrator , Department of Physics , Nuclear Physics Laboratory , Keble Road , Oxford OX RH by 28 February 1991 . |
| 28 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 29 | The applicants , one a Hindu and the other a Muslim , applied in November 1990 , expressing their preference in accordance with the Education Act 1980 , for their respective daughters to be admitted to the school from September 1991 . |
| 30 | OFFER a plate of mushy peas to a Parisian and the response is a curt non merci . |