Example sentences of "and [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , however , analysis based upon a given concept of ideology has been complemented by other projects , some of which also analyse buildings as repressive mechanisms or authoritarian representations ( e.g. Foucault 1977b ) , but whose overarching concepts such as ‘ power ’ or ‘ discourse ’ imply a still greater distance between interests and representations , and thereby a greater commitment to objectivism . |
| 2 | Unexplained pain , abnormal liver function tests or biliary abnormality at ultrasound lead to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography , and thereby a potential diagnosis of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 3 | These in turn prompted greater resistance , and eventually a successful uprising against the proprietary in 1689 , fourteen years after the death of Cecil Calvert , which had occurred 30 November 1675 in London . |
| 4 | Discreet soundings were taken in European court circles by French representatives to ascertain if any Princess were disposed to risk a marriage with the new Emperor , and eventually a short list of two was put forward . |
| 5 | Evidently there was a need to split into two large gatherings and this occurred , and eventually a further split into three . |
| 6 | It turns out that the component in the venom of this snake that has such an effect binds to the muscle receptor on human muscle and other animals ' muscles , and it binds there much more tightly than the natural chemical transmitter , which is called estialcodine , thereby preventing the transmission of the nerve impulse to the muscle and gives the victim instant miocenia and presumably a nice meal for the snake in due time . |
| 7 | Although ‘ the growing relevance of social work research to daily practice ’ may be one of the ‘ most significant of the changes to face social workers and agencies in recent years ’ ( David Jones , General Secretary , British Association of Social Workers ) it is still regrettably true that knowledge and use of research findings in policy and practice are relatively uncommon , and rarely a regular part of routine thinking and planning . |
| 8 | And suddenly a sharp pain as if stabbed in the gut . |
| 9 | Rapid growth ( high productivity ) means ready absorption of red light and so a greater difference between red and NIR bidirectional reflectance than one with slower growth . |
| 10 | And so a sanitized canon of soul and funk was drawn up : James Brown 's ‘ Say it Loud , I 'm Black and I 'm Proud ’ , Curtis Mayfield 's ‘ Move On Up ’ and ‘ We 've got to Have Peace ’ , Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ , Gil Scott Heron 's ‘ The Bottle ’ , Grandmaster Flash 's ‘ The Message ’ , Brother D and the Collective Effort 's ‘ How We Gon na Make the Black Nation Rise ’ , James Brown and Afrika Bambatta 's ‘ Unity ’ . |
| 11 | This is because there are no semantic cues as to who is waving at whom , and so a syntactic analysis of the question is necessary and this is more difficult in the second version where the relative pronoun ( that ) has been deleted . |
| 12 | The Reynolds number ranges appear short , but this is deceptive ; there is a large change in the fraction of the fluid in the pipe that is turbulent as one goes through the range , and so a small change in Reynolds number is associated with a large change in the non-dimensional pressure drop . |
| 13 | If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words . |
| 14 | Here we have , albeit speculatively ( and more baldly than most specialists would dare ) , the distributions and dispersals of archaic populations and so a geographical history of human populations throughout the world . |
| 15 | When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit . |
| 16 | You see , the human perception is that the thicker string feels different to the thin one , and so a balanced set of strings actually feels completely out of balance . |
| 17 | In most cases , divers working at those depths tend to reach the limits of maximum bottom time , and so a speedy assent to the surface is not desirable . |
| 18 | But , we are using actual income to measure expected income , and so a positive value for v t will suggest that there has been a rise in expected income with no accompanying rise in consumption expenditure . |
| 19 | Hungry hawks have to be fed , and so a constant supply of fresh meat must be found . |
| 20 | And so a further chapter in England v Pakistan disgruntlement was written . |
| 21 | Ascertainment through regional cancer registries may not be complete , and so a special search of hospital and pathology department records was made to ascertain any cases of leukaemia or lymphoma in Allerdale and Copeland for 1969–83 that might not previously have been registered . |
| 22 | And so a rapid return to the Lakes became a priority for me ; a desire I shared , it seemed , with every cold front kicking around the South Atlantic . |
| 23 | Like other models , its use requires an understanding of the system being modelled , and so a brief description of the land phase of the hydrological cycle is considered next . |
| 24 | The shorthand writer arrived a little late , and so a vital part of the exchange that took place is not recorded . |
| 25 | It was also important to establish whether adults would use deductive markers in these contexts , and so a written version of the tasks was given to a group of undergraduates . |
| 26 | The system used a very early expert system shell and soon runs out of capacity and so a later version of the shell was purchased that could cope with an increased knowledge base . |
| 27 | there would appear to be a need for closer monitoring of attendance on induction training for new academic staff and perhaps a higher priority to be given to further staff development and training of mid-career and senior staff in the area of teaching and learning-facilitating skills . |
| 28 | With this in mind , it seems that the program would benefit from some basic drawing tools and perhaps a small library of symbols and clipart , in order to give the program a more graphical feel . |
| 29 | With this in mind , it seems that the program would benefit from some basic drawing tools and perhaps a small library of symbols and clipart , in order to give the program a more graphical feel . |
| 30 | To the English critic ‘ HD ’ the word ‘ cinema ’ conjured up memories of ‘ crowds and crowds and saccharine music and longdrawn out embraces and the artificially enhanced thuds-off of galloping bronchoes ’ and then again ‘ boredom , tedium , suffocation , pink lemonade , saw-dust even , old reactions connected with cheap circuses , crowds and crowds and illiteracy and more crowds and breathless suffocation and ( in America ) peanut shells and grit and perhaps a sudden collapse of jerry-built scaffoldings ’ . |