Example sentences of "and a [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this general practitioners are rewarded with an income below the national average and a level of frustration much above it . |
| 2 | As Charles stood in his doorway and looked around , he must have seen a bustle of activity and a variety of dwellings only possible before the days of clinical town planning . |
| 3 | for example any diagnostic task can be aided by a taxonomy of symptoms and a taxonomy of causes together with connections between them . |
| 4 | There was only birdsong , and a splashing of water somewhere off in the woods . |
| 5 | All such activities demand thorough pre-planning and a type of organization not customary in many schools . |
| 6 | He thought about it though and decided that he could not live on willpower alone so he went on with his degree then joined a very mundane law practice with poor promotion prospects and a history of doing more ‘ legal aid ’ cases than ones where the client actually paid . |
| 7 | Amis 's Lucky Jim is something other ; so is William Cooper 's Struggles of Albert Woods ( 1952 ) , written in slapstick vein by a follower of Snow 's ; so is Angus Wilson 's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( 1956 ) and a fistful of novels soon after by David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury , both of them professors of English in civic universities . |
| 8 | A wet day in Durness need never be completely wasted : Smoo Cave provides shelter , interest and a spice of adventure not found in the hotel lounges . |
| 9 | They want their pieces of silver and a crown of thorns too . |
| 10 | The uprating , like its predecessors , betrays a Department on autopilot — a Department and a Secretary of State both suffering from advanced anaemia . |
| 11 | The Swansea and Neath association announced its social respectability in its president , the Marquess of Bute , and a roster of vice-presidents entirely aristocratic , gentry , and wealthy businessman in character . |
| 12 | He was , however , a preacher and a man of goodwill rather than a leader and man of action so that a change of leadership had become desirable when he retired . |
| 13 | With its ubiquitous Dionysus and Apollo and a mass of imagery besides , the language has a high coloration and a strong emotional charge . |
| 14 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 15 | ‘ Right , tea and a couple of biscuits now , and supper later . ’ |
| 16 | Him and a couple of others out of the same mould . |
| 17 | And a couple of girls so they got the message and then the they moved off down towar down the bottom . |
| 18 | Er , you then had got another ticket , and er train ticket , and you went to the south of France by train , and er you got a bed and a couple of meals there er then you had a bus ride . |
| 19 | They must have seen his lights for they were at the door , and a couple of minutes later he was in their brightly-lit living-room standing by a blazing fire and being asked what he would drink . |
| 20 | Leeds fortunately got their act together and started passing the ball around and a couple of minutes later Forrester volleyed in from ten yards after good work on the right by Dave White . |
| 21 | And a couple of minutes later , after Garry Haylock released Alan Dornan down the right , the latter 's cross was met by Johnston at the near post . |
| 22 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 23 | We got drunk , had a good time and a couple of days later I had to make a decision . |
| 24 | But something kept nagging in my mind , and a couple of days later I sent my secretary to Upper Thames Street to get the files of our earlier correspondence with him , and the original specimen of his signature kept by the bank . |
| 25 | And a couple of days ago Fergus had suggested they go for a longer hike , up into the trackless hills where the Landy could n't reach . |
| 26 | Lady Thatcher 's been on the road promoting her book and a couple of nights ago she was in Birmingham at a dinner hosted by the Birmingham Post . |
| 27 | I happened to make a shrewd investment in ‘ seventy-eight , and a couple of years ago I sold out . |
| 28 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |
| 29 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 30 | bag , rather than keep buying it in , a couple of pound and a couple of pound there . |