Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] an [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 2 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 3 | Sound , movement and graphics all in one package could make for an interesting new hobby or extremely effective presentations . |
| 4 | Ruling in the traditional Arab-Islamic style , he enjoys supreme power as long as he has the consensus support of the people who are consulted through an appointed Advisory Council . |
| 5 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 6 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 7 | Now Morwellham Quay has been restored and developed as an open-air industrial museum , where visitors can see the docks , inclined planes and waterwheels , and go underground into one of the disused copper mines . |
| 8 | Helicobacter pylori has recently been implicated as an important aetiological factor of gastritis and gastroduodenal ulceration . |
| 9 | Judge David , 71 , who also sits as an assistant High Court Judge , was describing why the dock of the court was surrounded by bullet proof glass . |
| 10 | If someone is registered as an independent financial adviser , it is his or her duty to give independent advice and that adviser is regulated by the appropriate body to do that . |
| 11 | Mr McGahon 's controversial proposal comes at a time when the British Government is under mounting pressure to radically review what many perceive as an outdated judicial system . |
| 12 | interest group models , including as an important special case Marxist models based on class interests . |
| 13 | She was referred for an urgent orthotopic liver transplant , which was subsequently performed . |
| 14 | Marcel Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu , however , is recognized as an important technical achievement , especially by Claude Simon and Robbe-Grillet . |
| 15 | I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again . |
| 16 | Namaliu rode out the protest and was successful in seeing through an initial parliamentary vote on a constitutional reform which would restrict the number of votes of no confidence . |
| 17 | While the IVIS discs had only loosely defined objectives and were rather vaguely intended as an underlying educational resource , IVIFE discs had very clear objectives . |
| 18 | Jacey ( London ) Ltd and Others ( 1975 ) , demonstrated clearly that showing a film on licensed premises could be indicted as an indecent public exhibition . |
| 19 | My eldest sister had a black cauldron suspended from an old iron cooking tripod , this was filled with sawdust and packed with small gifts which made for an attractive lucky dip at tuppence a time . |
| 20 | Alternatively , sentence ( 29 ) could be regarded as an incorrect empirical explanation . |
| 21 | Yoshida was frequently underestimated by contemporaries and was regarded as an elderly garrulous figurehead . |
| 22 | Weir was regarded as an effective right-hand batsman who could bowl useful medium-pacers for Auckland , and Kerr was considered an elegant opening batsman for Canterbury . |
| 23 | It is regarded as an individual revolutionary task for each of us to teach someone else who does n't know how to read and write . |
| 24 | One of the members of his staff , Wing Commander Ken Underwood Ground , has been on so many accident investigations now that he is regarded as an unofficial honorary Inspector of Accidents by AIB . |
| 25 | He was not conscious of having had any contact with a clergyman since school , where religion had been regarded as an unavoidable mixed dose of discipline , cissiness and mild buffoonery . |
| 26 | In 1932 Mozart was not regarded as an infallible god-like figure as he is now , and a new biography of the composer by Sacheverall Sitwell had caused a certain reaction . |
| 27 | Given our current state of knowledge of sign languages , it is obvious that these comments are no longer appropriate and that BSL can be treated as an effective cognitive component in development . |
| 28 | For present purposes , natural justice is therefore treated as an implied contractual term rather than a floating , self-contained principle . |
| 29 | Other factors — such as de Gaulle 's deep-rooted suspicion of British designs on the French empire and the personal animosities which developed between him and various British and American officials — aggravated tensions but their root cause was a complete disagreement as to whether Free France should act and be treated as an independent sovereign power . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough teenager Ian McGuckin looks set to continue after an impressive first-team debut against Darlington , while Steve Fletcher could take over in attack from injured Andy Saville . |