Example sentences of "and the [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The females could stay in one place , taking care of the babies with their free hands , and in return for finding her and the infants a male would have his own female always available for sex . ’ |
| 2 | In those terms alone , have not the Government and the NHS a moral obligation to do something about the matter ? |
| 3 | He thrust his head forward as the big Norwegian dumped a plateful of an extraordinary mixture in front of me — a great wadge of fried bread , two eggs , two very thick rashers and the rest a mêlée of doubtful greenery swimming in bacon fat . |
| 4 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 5 | She manages to keep the textures of the first movement light , and to give the Andante a genuine grace and the Scherzo a deftness it can often lack . |
| 6 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 7 | This asks whether a child 's identity is influenced by nature — through hormone levels and other biological aspects or by nurturing — through socialisation and the way a child is treated by its parents and other influential people . |
| 8 | Does the difficulty of the prediction task and the way a prediction is made have an influence on how good predictions are ? |
| 9 | The rivers , though not themselves navigable , provided an east-west route from Cheshire Plain to Pennines , and the ridge a north-south route . |
| 10 | There had grown between Cissie and the boy a strong abiding love that was wonderful to see . |
| 11 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 12 | Much more recently , in 1981 , there was a newspaper report of a Chinese she-mule who gave birth to a foal in Honan Province ; the sire was a donkey and the offspring a mule like its mother . |
| 13 | Then the unit going to Belfast , and the day a sniper killed him in the Crumlin Road . |
| 14 | Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said the Israelis had been intransigent and had done all they could ‘ to make the peace conference and the talks a waste of time . ’ |
| 15 | The wind was only slightly stronger and the reservoir a little choppier , but most of the others were out already and managing fine , so I saw no reason why we could n't do the same . |
| 16 | The KGB agent turned out to be a Reeperbahn hooker and the documents a couple of hundred marks for services rendered . |
| 17 | The Men 's membership was now 180 and the Ladies a mere 33 ( of whom only 16 played ) , and a Joint Membership of another 40 couples . |
| 18 | There were narrow flowerbeds in need of weeding on both sides , and in the sheltered corner between the store and the wall a tall rose lifted imperious petals like flames . |
| 19 | And the pantomimes a different thing altogether . |
| 20 | Male Singapuras weigh , on average , only 6 lbs , and the females a mere 4 lbs . |
| 21 | It happened in 1913 at Senghenydd in mid-Glamorgan , a mining village just over the hill and the moorland a few miles from my home . |
| 22 | Many who professed to revere the principle found it hard to like the example they were faced with in Mr Rushdie 's case : the book unreadable and the writer a pain in the neck . |
| 23 | In the legislature , the people are a check upon the nobility , and the nobility a check upon the people ; by the mutual privilege of rejecting what the other has resolved : while the King is a check upon both , which preserves the executive power from any encroachments . |
| 24 | It was begun about 1077 , the first construction being at the east end , so that the nave is early twelfth century and the façade a little later . |
| 25 | Ovenproof pudding basins and mixing bowls are also used for interesting cake shapes — the basin gives a sharply domed cake and the bowl a wider , more gently sloping line . |
| 26 | There 's a croquet lawn , tennis court and the sea a short stroll away . |
| 27 | For the children , the long railway journey to the seaside became one of the year 's great adventures and the station a place of mystery , anxiety , excitement , and unending interest . |
| 28 | But for many people , the Sunday-school outing remained the fondest memory of day-tripping and the station a vivid part of that memory . |
| 29 | At the end of three days of talks between the government and the ANC a government official on Dec. 4 expressed optimism that multiparty talks would resume by February 1993 . |
| 30 | If the ovum holds an X chromosome and the sperm a Y chromosome , an XY combination in the fertilised cell will produce a male child . |