Example sentences of "and a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A scramble for film rights and a whistle-stop tour of the US on a book-signing tour followed — 11 cities in 12 days and a $75,000 advance . |
| 2 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |
| 3 | The boat was kept open by hinged side struts and a straining device at both ends . |
| 4 | There was a flimsy nightdress which seemed to consist only of feathers and ribbons , and a mysterious stick of what looked like fudge . |
| 5 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 6 | With diligence and determination ( and attending Stow Street College of Printing ) I was considered as an asset and a useful member of the firm . |
| 7 | A holiday memorable for seafood and storms , and a useful test of the author 's PPL/IR — and two folding mountain bikes . |
| 8 | It is an ideal opportunity to play constructively together and a useful way for everyone to make new friends . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Barry Gale 's book is well worth reading , and a useful contribution to the literature on Darwin . |
| 10 | Teachers will be asked to record and review the experience , and employers usually find these reports to be very positive insights , and a useful evaluation of their work . |
| 11 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 12 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 13 | The Il-103 , first revealed in model form at last year 's Paris Air Show and as a full-scale mock-up at MosAero '92 in August , is a low-wing four/five seat fixed-gear aerobatic trainer/tourer with a maximum take-off weight of 1,300 kilograms and a useful load of 350 kilograms . |
| 14 | A movement moves : it does not , and dares not , coalesce ; and to capitalise it was no more than a modest journalistic hyperbole and a useful summary of an undoubted shift in literary taste . |
| 15 | These are two valuable chapters on stereoselective syntheses , and a useful account of elementary computer assisted methods is included . |
| 16 | Israel welcomed the plan as a placebo to Palestinian restiveness , a subsidy to its own administration of the territories , and a useful accessory in Israel 's own policy of reward and punishment . |
| 17 | The course , which can be taken in a specialist or more general mode , seeks to give students a thorough grounding in Fine Craft Design , to give them a firm basis for thinking about their work and a useful introduction to business practice . |
| 18 | Even the Salvation Army , formed specifically with the ‘ unrespectable ’ poor in mind , hardly succeeded in becoming more than a welcome addition to free public entertainment ( with its uniforms , bands and lively hymns ) , and a useful source of charity . |
| 19 | And my mate Lizzy showed up with a migraine and a helluva problem over her son 's school . |
| 20 | The essence of personal guidance is tact and sensitivity ; it implies a knowledge of people and a knowledge of books , and a skilful marrying of the two . |
| 21 | It lets us bring into the classroom different voices and different accents and a skilful use of sound effects can suggest a setting . |
| 22 | The girl behind her was a beauty , if a trifle too plump ; she had dark hair , smoothed down like her mother 's , and a flawless complexion of roses and cream . |
| 23 | Grade 1 step kicking and a strenuous pull round an overhung chockstone led to a notch below the summit . |
| 24 | I remember walking down the steps on to the set of Aspel and Company once , seeing a wall of friendly faces — except for one belonging to a lady sitting in the front row , arms crossed and a baleful expression on her face . |
| 25 | While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny . |
| 26 | Oppenheimer and Volkoff(1939) assumed a spherically symmetric metric and a stress-energy tensor for the fluid core of the form where , is the four-vector fluid velocity ( see Section 1.2 ) . |
| 27 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 28 | Magnus was a genius with many wild and frightening ideas , and a fanatical belief in the nationhood of the Empire and the divinity of Sigmar . |
| 29 | Fifthly , in the arena of foreign affairs , Hitler was commonly regarded as an upholder and a fanatical defender of Germany 's just rights , a rebuilder of the nation 's strength , a statesman of genius , and for the most part , it seems , not as a racial imperialist warmonger working towards a ‘ war of annihilation ’ and limitless German conquest . |
| 30 | The first is fraternal , popular entertainment , and a financial godsend for health care and education . |