Example sentences of "a [adj] and [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease .
2 Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry .
3 In other cases too , the ability of Jun/Fos containing factors to act both in a negative and in a positive fashion has been proposed ( 33 ) .
4 MARK DIGNAM was one of England 's foremost actors , both as a juvenile and as a character actor , ready to tackle anything going , from cameo to leading roles , an expert in the classics , above all Shakespeare , and a keen student of modern drama .
5 DDT was followed by other organo-chlorides , including aldrin , isodrin , entrin , and dieldrin , which was widely used in Britain as a sheep-dip and as a seed dressing .
6 Football coach , Bear Bryant , is also a farmhand and in the old days farmhands used to guide a team of animals in front of the plough , encouraging them and making sure they all pulled together .
7 The Companies Act 1989 has changed the definition of a subsidiary and as a result A. Layout ( Leisurewear ) Ltd has been treated as a subsidiary for the first time .
8 Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted .
9 Yet if Parliament would not sink overnight into the insignificance of the Dail , the STV would gradually exercise an insidious and in the end decisive effect on its proceedings and its authority .
10 Most specifically , which types of specialist focus demand a particular team structure ; which alternatives can function on both an individual and on a team basis ?
11 Both the major definitions of poverty — as an absolute and as a relative condition — turn on the question of individual health .
12 he incurs Liberal criticism because he sometimes acts like an unprincipled and like an undependable person … .
13 Go by Loch an Leothaid and along the north shore of Loch Uidh na h-larna .
14 The system would first perform an implicit AND on the search words .
15 In other words , individual children have very different educational experiences , both at an ideological and at a resource level .
16 ‘ My guy 's an impulsive-obsessive and through a chain of events gets amnesia .
17 Jarvis was an eccentric and in the opinion of many who knew him a very strange man , but he had a quiet way of getting on with things .
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