Example sentences of "[noun] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of these nine patients had undergone cholecystectomy from three months to 30 years previously , making passage of a stone from the gall bladder an unlikely cause of the biliary tract calculi . |
| 2 | At Meadville an immense barn-like structure contained long , almost monastic , rooms with exposed rafters . |
| 3 | When you have an operation these days that 's lasting anything more than just er a couple of minutes or so , they will insert down your windpipe an endotracheal airway , which is a tube that goes down into your windpipe to seal into the windpipe , so if you vomit , for example , no vomit can down round that tube . |
| 4 | The award caps an amazing 10 year streak of success for Clayton , aged 31 . |
| 5 | For those doing other subjects an excellent place to visit would be the Scottish record office who have all sorts of sources from town minutes to agricultural statistics and they are eager to help . |
| 6 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 7 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 8 | On the north or river side an artificial terrace about 40 ft wide is still visible , as are parts of the revetment wall on the east side , but the west side has been badly damaged by the excavation for the entrance to the quarry . |
| 9 | At one end there 's a DB-25 serial port , on one side an RJ-11 American phone socket and on the other a power inlet . |
| 10 | Southampton 0 Nottingham Forest 1 CARL TILER 'S first goal for Nottingham Forest since his £1.4 million move from Barnsley last summer gave Brian Clough 's side an undeserved win over Southampton last night . |
| 11 | Sir Drefaldwyn an 0-8-0 superheated tank tender engine storms up Golfa Bank just out of Welshpool with the final service of the day the 17.10 to Llanfair . |
| 12 | ‘ I recognise in Neil an exceptional gift and a tremendous ability to move people . |
| 13 | Suddenly with a tremendous stroke an old man close by threw a tiny fish up in the air and down it fell . |
| 14 | Their new found skills can help give LASMO an extra competitive edge — that 's the payback for us . ’ |
| 15 | It required from the pianist an unbelievable independence of hands and fingers , so that unevenly spread accents and criss-crossing figurations appeared to drop into place without obvious effort . |
| 16 | New funding arrangements due for introduction on April 1 would have reduced the subsidy and given dentists an effective pay cut of up to 13.8pc . |
| 17 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 18 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton used as his studio and bedroom an airy ground-floor room with french windows opening on to a balcony that overlooked the large garden . |
| 19 | For the long term benefits of the ‘ loyalty share bonus ’ together with a first year 's yield of around 20 per cent makes the investment an attractive income stock . |
| 20 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 21 | The aim is to make clustered 80486- or Pentium-based servers an attractive alternative to systems such as the Digital Equipment Corp VAXcluster . |
| 22 | Dream International Holdings Ltd are offering Ski survey readers an exclusive 20% introductory discount until 31 March 1991 . |
| 23 | Keith Floyd tells us all about his travels to Australia and he gives readers an exclusive taste of the recipes he collected while he was there . |
| 24 | Quite clearly in the history of detective fiction its writers began to feel that the mere producing of one yet more ingenious murder was not enough , that perhaps setting a slightly less ingenious murder in some interesting area would give readers an extra reason for staying with the book . |
| 25 | They will give Mirror readers an initial FREE survey providing you agree to use their services if further work is necessary . |
| 26 | It is a useful authorial device to offer readers an unheroic hero so as to escape romantic cliché . |
| 27 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 28 | Returning to the argument in The Future of an Illusion an imaginary antagonist argues that civilization depends upon people continuing to believe in God , otherwise they will not act in a moral way . |
| 29 | Along the Cumberland coast an industrial fringe was already well established , based on deposits of coal and iron ore : Whitehaven was in those days an important port . |
| 30 | Large flakes , too : in mid-May an experienced miner turned up in Sam 's Jewellers in Sacramento with half a dozen three- and four-ounce nuggets fished from the American River . |