Example sentences of "and [noun] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have taken the technology as they found it , at relatively low cost , and invested in re-engineering the product for efficient production , quality and reliability and a better price/performance ratio . |
| 2 | They have taken the technology as they found it , at relatively low cost , and invested in re-engineering the product for efficient production , quality and reliability and a better price/performance ratio . |
| 3 | Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards . |
| 4 | IGC will eventually have offices in Geneva , The Hague and Moscow and a staff of 100 . |
| 5 | ‘ Four trains a day between Whitby and Middlesbrough and an almost skeleton service on the main line to Darlington is no advert for the railway system . |
| 6 | ICI has important patents in the field , covering a number of different monomers and fillers and a variety of techniques for their use and we intend to exploit the position by developing a range of filled dispersions and materials based on them . ’ |
| 7 | The world of learning , fired by the tension between the intellectual arguments of scholasticism and the more experiential piety of the monastic orders given a powerful voice by such men as Bernard of Clairvaux and Hugo and Richard of St Victor , was preoccupied with the relationship between the operations of reason and faith and a growing tendency to see them as distinct rather than complementary experiences , a climate of thought favourable to mystical theology . |
| 8 | Ardnamurchan is a long peninsula thrusting far into the Atlantic , having a coastline fretted with bays and coves and a hilly hinterland uncultivated except for a scattering of crofts . |
| 9 | Thanks for this go to many generous people for their time and expertise and a specific mention must go to HM Army personnel at Catterick Base for the donation of carpets , chairs and cutlery . |
| 10 | Secular attitudes go with a low proportion of population engaged in family farming and agriculture and a high proportion of women working ( Lesthaeghe 1983 ) . |
| 11 | On the other hand , there are tables and graphs and a methodical list of the alternatives , so the intelligent and diligent reader can make up his own mind . |
| 12 | ‘ Señor Gracias , Buenas noches , ’ said the owner as he took Luke 's order for a vodka and tonic and a Bourbon . |
| 13 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 14 | It can either lead us into bitterness and despair , or it can drive us towards greater sensitivity and responsibility and a deepening love for God and for others . |
| 15 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 16 | This particular trucker 's agent had gone out of business late on New Year 's Eve , one of a number of last-minute bankruptcies and mergers and a new agent would somehow have to be found to stamp his papers if Customs were to let him depart on the 20.15 sailing . |
| 17 | Inside the ground , flares were fired into the England sheep pens after both goals by some Dutch klootzak , and coins and a chair or two flung back by some English dickheads . |
| 18 | ( Rule of Life No. 6 : be prepared to survive on one extra pair of socks and knickers and a spare shirt . |
| 19 | At Goulbourn a large brick structure with stone quoins and cornices and a central tower and dome had been built in the 1870s , and structure with powerful round-headed arches and long arcading on two storeys was more reminiscent of Indian stations than of those of Europe or North America . |
| 20 | However , you are much more likely to have your own photographic library with reference shots of all plant and personnel and a collection of possible feature material . |
| 21 | All were unheated , congested , and meagrely fed , and the miracle was that a disease-free , self-governing , microcosmic version of male England emerged and survived — not without tensions and tragedies and an element of anti-Semitism — till the end of the war . |
| 22 | The negress , a whiplash weight ; white eyes and teeth and a low deep chuckle . |
| 23 | She said it again , spitting a cat 's venom , a snake 's venom at him , menacing him with claws and teeth and a most glorious savagery , her eyes out of focus perhaps but glittering like jewels , her supple , slender , long-legged body having lost all consciousness of its nakedness , her firm , high , amber-skinned breasts rising in their fury ; doubly enticing . |
| 24 | I thought a cup of sweet English tea or warm camels ' milk and clove and a sleep , and certainly not to take the wheel of one of the cars on their way to Al Ain . |
| 25 | Lancaster was now joined by the king 's uncles the Earls of Rent and Norfolk and a group of lords who had lost lands in Scotland , chief amongst whom were Henry Beaumont , Thomas Wake of Liddel and David of Strathbogie , claimant to the earldom of Atholl . |
| 26 | His ecumenical spirit was such that when two Spanish vessels visited Sydney in 1793 he ‘ outdid himself in his sociable gestures , particularly toward our chaplain fathers approaching them with a kindness and humility and a simplicity that was truly evangelical ’ ( The Spanish at Port Jackson , Australian Documentary Facsimile Society , 1967 ) . |
| 27 | Major excavations have been done at Kilellan and Ardnave and a much smaller one at Sanaigmore . |
| 28 | He sent Seton a bowl of almonds and raisins and a present of velvet gloves . ’ |
| 29 | The pans shown here have dishwasher-safe phenolic handles and knobs and a handy hang-up loop for easier storage . |
| 30 | The Zikr must have been devout too , of course , but he got round a lot more than Zoser , mixed with people , liked crowd and noise and a bit of fun . |