Example sentences of "a [noun] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edmund has always loved and seen Fanny as a sister and now that his eyes have been widened to see Mary Crawford 's actual character he looks at Fanny now as his future wife . |
| 2 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 3 | , and I , I , think we must assume , that , that , he was no ball because he was a beamer and not because of front foot . |
| 4 | Yet the demand ‘ for every syllable a note ’ was felt as a constraint and only when Byrd for some reason was able to resist it , in his Great Service , does he rise to the heights of the four- and five-part Masses evidently intended for some great Catholic household , and the finest of his motets , in which he reveals his mastery of freely imitative polyphony . |
| 5 | The Government will normally have a majority and even if defeated , can reintroduce the measure and pressurise its supporters to defeat the motion . |
| 6 | Tenants for life will be those who are entitled to a life interest under the provisions of a settlement and even though that interest merely confers upon them an equitable interest , they have the power to sell the legal estate . |
| 7 | People will be interviewed at the time of taking a photograph and later after they have seen the results in order to ascertain just what they think they have ‘ captured ’ photographically . |
| 8 | of having a vote and so and so gets no |
| 9 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 10 | That will be to you better than a light and safer than a known way ’ . |
| 11 | That was , Lord Jauncey said , a clear undertaking by TBL not to exercise its statutory powers for a period that could last for as long as any one of the parties to the agreement remained a shareholder and long after the control of TBL had passed to shareholders who were not party to the agreement . |
| 12 | Sales to the UK market continued to fall — half of companies reported a decrease and less than 10 per cent of companies reported an increase . |
| 13 | She hesitated a second and then as the headlights dimmed she went across to the window and peered through the Venetian blind . |
| 14 | You ca n't buy a Fiesta for this kind of money , or a Metro or a Nova and even if you could , you would n't have half as much fun . |
| 15 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 16 | ‘ And green and deep The stream mysterious glides beneath , Green as a dream and deep as death … ‘ |
| 17 | " The stream mysterious glides beneath , " Melinda quoted , " green as a dream and deep as death . " |
| 18 | I 'd only once asked for a transfer and not because of any discontent or fall- out with the club . |
| 19 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 20 | But she was there when I was a boy and even when I went to school in Porthmadog . |
| 21 | What happens is folk , folk treat it as a diet and then when they stop the diet , they stop the habit |
| 22 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 23 | This is how we pole a raft and just because a white man is watching through his funny machine we are n't going to do it any differently . |
| 24 | Of course , there is a small increase in speed as the climb gets steeper , both because the glider is starting to ascend the arc of a circle and also because of the effects of the wind gradient . |
| 25 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |
| 26 | It was a decade and more since he 'd come here last . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , ordinary people relate to such a race and particularly because the Grand National keeps on delivering the most remarkable moving stories . |
| 28 | Now that he was no longer a virgin and now that it no longer mattered very much , he succeeded in seducing Rosie . |
| 29 | Dismissed from the Albertina because of his German nationality , he then worked for the Graphische Sammlung , Munich , until 1971 as a curator and then as director . |
| 30 | Never mind that this is very seldom what happens when a bullet strikes a forehead and especially when it comes out at the back of the head . |