Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Census data , for instance , made clear that an increasing proportion of the more numerous national groups had been choosing to live in their ‘ own ’ union republic , with the greatest increases in Central Asia , the Baltic and Armenia ( Russians , by contrast , had become more dispersed throughout the USSR ) . |
| 2 | That exhibition has now moved on , and the floor will remain empty until an Isozaki travelling show opens in November 1993 . |
| 3 | But it became clear that an outright sale was the best way forward , its spokesman said yesterday . |
| 4 | There can be no doubt that this claim has impressed many as an important reason why his views should not only be taken seriously but accepted as true . |
| 5 | Gandalf 's advice , ‘ But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords ! ’ , has more than an immediate relevance . |
| 6 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 7 | In French literature lectures , Sartre became more than an academic discovery , though I understand only now why the idea that " the person is nothing else but his freedom " and the revelations of Nausea had such enormous appeal for me . |
| 8 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 9 | The London and South East Regional Planning Conference ( SERPLAN ) regularly monitor trends and it seems likely that an adequate supply of building land is available , but only on the basis of five-year forecasts . |
| 10 | It seems unlikely that an intrauterine device would suppress the symptoms of endometriosis , and we suspect that many women with a device who develop the clinical features of endometriosis ( pain , bleeding , palpable pelvic masses ) are treated by removal of the device rather than by laparoscopy or laparotomy . |
| 11 | The nerves of ‘ Kanga ’ Tryon , a designer more used to working with ‘ supermodels ’ on the catwalks of the world than schoolgirls — were fraying faster than an unfinished hem . |
| 12 | True mastery of design and development in multimedia demands more than an incremental change in existing established skills . |
| 13 | In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms . |
| 14 | If you find on reading this that an existing process would have benefited from different values at . |
| 15 | In La Jalousie ( 1957 ) , the disjointed chronology , the use of the present tense , the repetition of scenes , the recurrence of certain details — features which initially perplex readers — become explicable if an identifiable narrator is postulated . |
| 16 | She was about to go round the back when the casement on the ground floor creaked open and an ample hand appeared followed by a full face , framed by thick straight grey hair , secured with a slide . |
| 17 | If the vendor shareholders are willing to accept this form of deferred consideration , with the debentures carrying less than an arm's-length interest rate , there is obviously a funding advantage to Newco . |
| 18 | A patient who is not fully conscious should never be left alone and an experienced nurse should accompany the patient hack to the ward from theatre . |
| 19 | The new political atmosphere challenged the self-satisfied pecking order of the social ladder of pre-war years , and made certain that an accepted way of life had changed for ever . |
| 20 | It thus becomes clear that an intricate web of mutual dependency existed between the state and private individuals , between the military , the hunters , the peasants , the craftsmen and the merchants . |
| 21 | Appropriate revision should ensure that the scheme keeps up to date , but large scale reclassifying remains unpopular and an uneasy balance between updating and stability must be maintained ; this balance is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain as knowledge changes rapidly . |
| 22 | Colour all but an egg-shaped piece of the remaining fondant green . |
| 23 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |
| 24 | However , these are minor differences insufficient to warrant more than an infraspecific distinction , supporting Mortensen 's ( 1933 ) evaluation . |
| 25 | As neutral sodium absorption , however , is not the main absorptive pathway for sodium in the human descending colon , the basis for the present findings remains unclear and an antisecretory effect of SCFA is not excluded . |
| 26 | This record sounds deranged at either 33 ( where you can pretend it 's a fat bloke singing ) or 45 ( where it becomes apparent that an agitated woman is handling the vocal chores ) . |
| 27 | They are very effective like this , and need little care other than an annual prune . |
| 28 | As they approached the dais , she became aware that an animated discussion was taking place among a group of half a dozen dons at one end of the long table . |
| 29 | For all its deficiencies , the 1988 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) survey of disability in Britain makes clear that an overwhelming feature of the disabled state is poverty ( Abberley , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | Most run-down inner city churches need more than an isolated minister , however devoted , to get things running again . |