Example sentences of "and a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kruger cut the air with the scimitar , and a neatly bisected feather floated in halves to the ground . |
| 2 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 3 | ‘ This year we had a not very encouraging spring , a busy-ish summer and a hideously bad autumn , ’ he says , as people rushed to buy before the government reimposed stamp duty at the end of August . |
| 4 | They know better than anyone that all the badmouthing of men they could manage would not begin to balance the inequality they experience when it comes to the job market — fewer opportunities , low wages , nonexistent child-care facilities and a hopelessly uneven battle to survive if , for example , the father of their children jumps ship and fails to pay any maintenance . |
| 5 | It was December and a bitterly cold east wind was blowing . |
| 6 | I joined a small group of three Germans , a Dutchman and an American who , with a young interpreter and a terrifyingly fit-looking guide from Kiev , set out for Europe 's icy crown at four o'clock one morning last July . |
| 7 | At Annesley , Nottinghamshire , is a more discreetly dressed gentleman of similar date , whose loosely wrapped winding-sheet is drawn down , rather than parted , to show the facial features , shoulder-length hair and a delicately embroidered cap . |
| 8 | The selection of early Adoration studies , those associated with the Anghiari commission , and a chronologically varied series of grotesque heads are particularly noteworthy . |
| 9 | A General Overview of European and UK Fisheries calls for a range of controls , including : limits on fishing activity in the north-east Atlantic ; decommissioning some fishing boats ; stricter enforcement of EC fishing quotas ; and a well worked-out " multi-species " approach to fisheries management . |
| 10 | Subject to those two safegaurds there was no reason why the decision of an inferior tribunal with a limited jurisdiction and a strictly limited function to perform should not be capable of creating an issue estoppel . |
| 11 | With strict control over the internal movement of people inside Japan , and a strictly enforced system of social hierarchy , it is not difficult to see how the identity of groups at a local level might be maintained . |
| 12 | Y'know , at 'Arringay they 'ave choirs and a blooming great organ and flowers — masses of white lilies , Else said . ’ |
| 13 | I padded round the room and quietly filched any precious object there : a small set of silver candlesticks , two finely chased pewter goblets and a cunningly wrought steel crucifix which hung on the wall . |
| 14 | As such , the artists producing animal portraits in the 19th century enjoyed both a wide and a positively receptive market for their works . |
| 15 | And this , it should be remembered , was in a large important state with many difficult problems and a notoriously fractious and undisciplined legislature that , for six of Reagan 's eight years , was under Democratic control . |
| 16 | These six Sonatas give evidence of an outstanding creative personality , and a ferociously energetic temperament ( they sound ferociously difficult as well : her keyboard technique must have been staggering ) . |
| 17 | The nut is made from Wilkaloid , a substance that it is even more slippery than graphite and a closely guarded industry secret . |
| 18 | But she provided him with loyalty , sensible advice and a closely shared experience of life for over fifty years . |
| 19 | Rome is one of the world 's most magnificent cities with a quite awe-inspiring history and a simply unrivalled beauty . |
| 20 | Outside , the apse-end of the church is tall and decorative , while at the west end there is a good three-arched portal and a simply sculpted tympanum . |
| 21 | Before you could say ‘ blimey , look at that stagecoach turning into a pumpkin ’ , Setanta Records had booked The Frank & Walters into Wimbledon YMCA and Camden Underworld , where a support slot in front of a dozen punters showcased their spiky pop instincts and a subtly hysterical enthusiasm for life . |
| 22 | History gives pupils a framework of reference , opportunities for the informed use of leisure , and a critically sharpened intelligence with which to make sense of current affairs . |
| 23 | Two families of large DNA viruses share this cytoplasmic location : poxviruses , and a yet unnamed group of which African swine fever virus ( ASFV ) is the only known member . |
| 24 | IRIS contains some 150 pages of information covering weather , agriculture markets prices , television schedules and a continuously updated news service staffed by CBC editors . |
| 25 | Within a providential framework , her writings reveal staunch Royalist views and a distinctly Anglican Restoration piety expressed through the set forms of the Common Prayer Book and the regular orderly celebration of the sacraments . |
| 26 | She had a wide smile , a freckle-dusted nose and a distinctly Irish accent . |
| 27 | The effect was enhanced by a marine canvas skirt of green lights , and a distinctly nautical motion provided by the short four-wheel truck . |
| 28 | She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière . |
| 29 | And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then . |
| 30 | It comes in white , cream and a slightly veined beige . |