Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life . |
| 2 | Apprenticed to John Wilson ( no relation ) of Wilson , Wilkinson & Co. , iron merchants of 47 High Street , he was a junior clerk and then a traveller in the Sheffield district , promoting the sale of iron ore to the local industrialists . |
| 3 | For most people , a love of animals tends to extend to several pets , the odd donation and perhaps a rally . |
| 4 | He suggests using a deep-conditioning treatment once a week for dry hair and twice a month for oily hair . |
| 5 | However , it is artistically total tosh and merely a vehicle for an imagination nowhere close to reaching puberty . |
| 6 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 7 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 8 | Since it is clear that the vocation of hermit was officially recognised in the fourteenth century , the account of Richard 's pursuit of his calling points to parental opposition and possibly a reluctance on Richard 's part to commit himself to any officially supervised licensing . |
| 9 | However , the country as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the liberal period of the late nineteenth century belonged to the German orbit and consequently a body of commercial law ( separate from general civil law ) was implanted in the form of a Commercial Code ( Statute 37 of 1875 ) following the principles of German commercial law . |
| 10 | If you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense , would n't it so the background if you like would be different would n't it with high rise and maybe a different . |
| 11 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 12 | MICHEL ROCARD , the former French premier and currently a contender for the presidency , won support yesterday for a plan call to scrap the battered Socialist Party and build a new centre-left movement . |
| 13 | There is no serious dissent from the general proposition that we should have a system which combines a thorough examination of all individual claims , a clear exposition of the criteria against which they are being assessed , all proper speed and then a clear decision , whether positive or negative , and an effective right of appeal before removal for those whose claims have been rejected . |
| 14 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 15 | He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child . |
| 16 | If the one we crossed this time was a steep climb and then a pleasant sweep into a warm green valley , and not the mountains of the moon , I was the better pleased , because although it was different it was also wonderful , and because I felt instinctively that the heights must be earned . |
| 17 | No lunch is provided and it does not take long to eat what little they bring — a bit of salad , some bread and maybe a hard-boiled egg . |
| 18 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |
| 19 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 20 | This had long been the LRDG 's main base with clear water and even a few European houses . |
| 21 | How could there be an English policy seriously at odds with British policy and still a British policy worthy of the name ? |
| 22 | , John Edward Courtenay ( 1853–1925 ) , author , was born 6 June 1853 at King Street , Hanley , Staffordshire , the son of Edward Fisher Bodley , commercial traveller and later a wealthy pottery owner , and his second wife Mary Ridgway . |
| 23 | The fund to meet the cost of Laura 's treatment was relaunched this week and yesterday an anonymous £100,000 donation was confirmed to the organisers , who are confident enough that money can be raised for the new operation and after= care . |
| 24 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 25 | Thus , on a smooth sea , under a clear sky and later a full moon , about seven miles [ 11 km ] off the Yorkshire coast , the Battle of Flamborough Head began , around 7 pm on Thursday 23 September 1779 . |
| 26 | It is , for example , a public space and yet a private one too , as an extension of the adjacent buildings . |
| 27 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 28 | A girl in a smart black uniform is collecting money in this box and quite a few people stop and drop money in it . |
| 29 | The later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third . |
| 30 | Police on parade , in the absence of marches by a peacetime army , was both a major civic celebration and also a symbol of untrammelled power . |