Example sentences of "and [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as a match for the Tatar warriors of the Crimea , who were similarly equipped , their value declined when in the 1630s and 1640s a strong line of fortifications was built in the south . |
| 2 | Only one hanging , and that a tattered old thing of Adam and Eve ! |
| 3 | When he next turned his attention to the matter , The Times leader writer had to explain to his readers that the law of debtor and creditor was as yet only in a transitional state and that a very unsatisfactory one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm not really some of them do , the younger ones and that a bit . |
| 6 | England will look back with regret on a first half which saw them produce only one score , and that a debatable penalty seven minutes before the interval . |
| 7 | And that a bit of meat there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean , a hundred and fifty a week — that 's as much as I 'd 've expected you to get for actually acting . ’ |
| 11 | He had to be on three hundred and fifty a week minimum , surely ? |
| 12 | ‘ But that 's only a hundred and fifty a week . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | It 's almost quadrupled to three hundred and fifty a month . |
| 15 | Well that 's gon na be about two hundred and forty , two hundred and fifty a month for that one down . |
| 16 | You could volunteer to pay two hundred and fifty a month could n't you ? |
| 17 | Well if , you 're gon na pay a hundred and fifty a night |
| 18 | If I want to but I wo n't cos I 'll be on a hundred and fifty a month anyway . |
| 19 | That 's where you can smoke and a hundred and fifty a day ! |
| 20 | While a few felt that the social workers , were helpful and supportive an equal number considered them to be patronizing and authoritarian . |
| 21 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I am anxious that my grandsons , Prince William and Prince Harry , should grow up in as happy and stable an environment as possible because they represent not just my family 's future , but a continuation of a tradition which has bound the British people together for centuries . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 27 | Lot a hundred and eight a portable reed organ there it is twenty for this twenty anywhere ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |