Example sentences of "and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PATRICIA COCKBURN was the widow of the journalist Claud Cockburn and a remarkable and resourceful woman , an intrepid traveller , an inspired gardener and latterly a creator of shell paintings . |
| 2 | Nobody was hurt and luckily a picture was taken of the offender who is being actively sought . |
| 3 | The wet grass glittered and near-by a nut-tree sparkled iridescent , winking and gleaming as its branches moved in the light wind . |
| 4 | The formative advantages of the record are considerable ; it provides an on-going record which can be used for evaluative purposes by student , teacher and parent , and thereby a basis for the consideration of future planning of learning and teaching . |
| 5 | The basic principle which the Act lays down is that to become a member , and thereby a shareholder , there must be agreement and entry on a register of members which every type of registered company is required to maintain and which , in relation to a company with shares is also a register of shareholdings . |
| 6 | A graduate chartered librarian with a full teaching qualification and working in schools is a teacher when he is engaged with a class , and mostly a librarian when he is devising an alphabetical subject index , and so on . |
| 7 | We offer the other hand , and eventually a life line is discovered , although it 's so short it appears that we died several years ago . |
| 8 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 9 | Contact is then set up between these groups and eventually a member of the computer department , called , usually , a systems analyst , will be assigned to assess the feasibility of such a system , and a communication or dialogue is begun between the systems analyst and members of the user department . |
| 10 | The huge mountain at the far , Pakistani end of the Himalaya saw the tragic massacre of Willy Merkl 's German team in 1936 and eventually a solo first ascent by the legendary Hermann Buhl in 1953 . |
| 11 | A pupil at Hummersknott School , she is studying for GCSEs and hopes to go on to do A levels in politics , economics and English and eventually a degree . |
| 12 | The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval . |
| 13 | He also studied the problem of how a single original population becomes divided up into varieties ( subspecies ) and eventually a range of distinct ‘ daughter ’ species . |
| 14 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
| 15 | It is embarking on a two-stage effort to bring a data dictionary , and eventually a repository , to its relational database management system , fourth-generation language and CASE tool environments . |
| 16 | It was therefore timely that the RIBA should have been approached by a number of parties interested in publishing the Journal and eventually a deal with The Builder Group was struck by the Institute . |
| 17 | And eventually a khthon approached the cell . |
| 18 | The limitation date can , in due course , convert to an ASO date if the case is issued in the county court and eventually a disposal or provisional damages review date . |
| 19 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 20 | So erm , it it 's important to remember that Freud 's theory explains both of these tendencies and both the tendency for the group to make people better than they might normally be , but also that the tendency for the group perhaps to make them worse and of course either can happen and presumably a lot depends on the , on the leader , the leader or whoever is playing the , the leadership function presumably has erm some responsibility for this . |
| 21 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 22 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
| 23 | The lamps in the cressets gave out the scent of perfumed oil , and somewhere a lutenist was playing quietly . |
| 24 | Rose pulls at a handle , and somewhere a bell dances . |
| 25 | ‘ And rather a beauty , incidentally . ’ |
| 26 | At first when you enter , the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle . |
| 27 | The following Friday evening , after spinach soufflé , baked potatoes with sour cream , and rather a lot of excellent claret , Clare found herself sitting naked to the waist in the firelight . |
| 28 | The adult worms in the intestine cause little apparent damage to the mucosa , but occasionally , if large numbers are present , there may be obstruction , and rarely a worm may migrate into the bile duct , causing obstructive jaundice and carcass condemnation . |
| 29 | A well-known publisher , Anthony Blond , writes ‘ The design and appearance of a general book matters but not too much : after all , printing is only a form of communication and rarely an end in itself . |
| 30 | The concept clearly was meant to establish a College in the broad sense of a learned foundation , whereas what emerged almost inevitably , from the actual circumstances of its establishment and funding , degenerated into what was to remain for a century basically and predominantly a horse infirmary . |