Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need the help I can give you because if you unknowingly make a false move or fail to react promptly because you 're not sure what to do , your daughter will be dispensed with as being too risky a property . |
| 2 | What is more , financial intermediaries may have the expertise to be able to assess just how risky a loan is . |
| 3 | In August 1876 a boy was kicked by a horse in the stables at Clinkham and suffered a broken collarbone . |
| 4 | W.H. Chaloner writes that during eight years between '58 & '67 a total of 904 tons of ore were made ready for smelting ; Sir Michael le Fleming , the new Lord , receiving dues amounting to £376 : 15s. : 0d. it is not known where the main ore dressing floor was located but it was probably on the site of the 19th century floors — near the present youth hostel . |
| 5 | The tables show that an animal was at greatest risk of being stolen in the Low Country , but until around 1895 a person was more likely to steal an animal in the Intermediate area . |
| 6 | ‘ Was this a nursery , joy ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Is this a dinosaur ? ’ |
| 8 | If you want to make this a popularity poll , go ahead , but my assets still overtake yours , I think ! ’ |
| 9 | Is this a characteristic of a Series III on radials or do you think there is something wrong ? |
| 10 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 11 | I hereby declare this a Court of Law with myself as judge and those present as jury . |
| 12 | In fact I think that making this a Court issue will deter some parents from seeking access to their children which is a very bad thing . |
| 13 | This a times course of jumps in a ring and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 14 | They planned each meeting to last an hour normally , and having gathered the information the team withdrew separately to ask themselves ‘ Why is this a problem now ? ’ |
| 15 | I have not found this a problem because many of our members had their own private sites and were not interested in coinshooting . |
| 16 | Nor is this a problem for the authorities alone : how far should adult educators , qua educators , engage in activism as opposed to education ? |
| 17 | This colonnade carried a classical entablature and above was a plain wall ( where the Medieval triforium normally is to be found ) and above this a row of small clerestory windows . |
| 18 | Is this a witch-hunt ? |
| 19 | Is this a consideration which helps anybody to decide which district the new settlement should go in ? |
| 20 | Curiously , it is still rather unusual for solicitors ' partnership agreements to provide that partners should retire upon reaching an agreed age , though it might be thought that there are good reasons for making this a requirement in the interests of a firm 's long term planning . |
| 21 | In order for this to be useful , we have to access information relevant to the faces we recognise : is this a friend , a relative , some national celebrity ? |
| 22 | put it over there with your plan , put it over there with your plan , okay , is this a jigsaw ? |
| 23 | Just stop and think about this a minute . |
| 24 | Erm I 'll stop this a minute . |
| 25 | Give me this a minute . . |
| 26 | A repetition of the same sin under similarly testing circumstances does not make this a duplicate of 12:10–20 . |
| 27 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 28 | Mythical Rome : make this a holiday you 'll always remember by visiting all the wonderful sights of the capital |
| 29 | Is this a function of the mainframe business , or is it a function of IBM 's actions in this market ? ’ |
| 30 | Following NN we allow for the possibility that the higher the wage the more competition there will be for the job ( ceteris paribus ) and make this a function of w . |