Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] 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 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The KGB agent turned out to be a Reeperbahn hooker and the documents a couple of hundred marks for services rendered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And the pantomimes a different thing altogether . |
| 7 | Male Singapuras weigh , on average , only 6 lbs , and the females a mere 4 lbs . |
| 8 | Her ritual return to Møn was the response to an undertaking , her visits to the house and the sites a reassurance . |
| 9 | We numbered in that battle sixty men , and the soldiers a hundred . |
| 10 | The Socialists and their allies had 23 per cent , the extreme right National Front 12.4 , the Communists 9.2 and the ecologists a mere 7.6 . |
| 11 | It is considered that the self concept and the values a manager holds are of central importance in understanding motivation . |
| 12 | The Romans built a lighthouse here , and the Anglo-Saxons a fortified a town . |
| 13 | Let's give the Canadians and the Americans a boost . |
| 14 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
| 15 | Delays cost us and the airlines a lot of money , so we 'll be beavering away to solve your problem as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | The naos has a painted barrel vault and the pro-naos a flat-timber roof . |
| 17 | WE 'VE lined up a host of money-saving offers to give you and the kids a day you 'll never forget . |
| 18 | Out of the cracks and the shadows a company comes to play — juggling , magic tricks , tumbling , and slapstick fill the stage . |
| 19 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 20 | A weekend in May and the fields full of blossom and the twins a little short of their third birthday . |
| 21 | The floors of the rooms were covered with cracked blue and white tiles , the walls were a pale blue wash flaking on to the sand and the doors a bright sea blue . |
| 22 | The sky was dark now , the city and the domes a blaze of winking lights around them . |