Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance someone with a sore throat may well also have a fever and you will get a fuller picture by looking at the remedies in both sections . |
| 2 | One reads that such scenes give the green soldier nothing but a mad lust to kill in his turn . |
| 3 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 4 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 5 | It has been a particular source of worry that sales of the magazine have been so low ; in fact on the current issue we made a considerable loss which as a small Society is very difficult to cover . |
| 6 | The steadying windvane is a help , and the alternative triangular frame idea shows a way of using weight itself as a stabilising force . |
| 7 | The muskrat is a swamp-dwelling rodent something like a large water vole . |
| 8 | Trevor , fishing it with a floating line and a 20-foot leader , retrieved the Tinhead slowly on Kingfisher Pool and tempted a fine 7lb 2oz rainbow trout . |
| 9 | ‘ Sometimes in a small community — and ours is very small — passions which in a wider context would be dissipated become distilled and reduced to poison . |
| 10 | I 'm not above all this , still boasting about my San Diego built glass-shafted driver which on a good day hits with a snap . |
| 11 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 12 | " It 'll be good for a giggle , as Charlie says , " she concluded , with a look which on a lesser woman could have been called coy . |
| 13 | Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women 's section 's national birthday scheme , Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter 's tea party . |
| 14 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 15 | The Parliament Act 1911 still recites that ‘ it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis ’ and explains the Act itself as a temporary measure pending such a substitution . |
| 16 | The team had already identified the capability of the switchboard equipment itself as a major cause of delays and one recommendation was that Direct Dial In [ DDI ] facilities should be installed so that calls could be dialled direct to specific people , by-passing the switchboard . |
| 17 | The door was opened by the gipsy girl who with a decisive movement turned the handle and pulled it wide . |
| 18 | Harlot 's Ghost distils the uneasy , febrile , panicky essence of American Cold War paranoia and bottles it at a literate room temperature . |
| 19 | Sometimes , the Minister will take the point of a desired amendment , but not like the proposed amendment itself and thus undertake instead to arrange for amendment himself at a later stage . |
| 20 | It was another medievalist , under Tolkien 's influence , who gave utterance to the view that ‘ Literature stops in 1100 ; after that there 's only books , ’ but they were sentiments which in a crude way echoed Tolkien 's own position . |
| 21 | There are an awful lot of children in the United Kingdom in fact who are living in the sort of poverty and who 's parents are living in the sort of poverty which in a rich country like our own , should not be tolerated . |
| 22 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 23 | Hyperplasia is in fact initiated by the fish itself as a protective mechanism in response to hostile water conditions or parasite infestations . |
| 24 | Hyperplasia is in fact initiated by the fish itself as a protective mechanism in response to hostile water conditions or parasite infestations . |
| 25 | He traced a chain of development in the verbalization of sexual material from " smut " , " " Zote " " , which is characteristically used , he claims , by a man to excite a woman , to the joke itself as a covert expression of thwarted male sexual aggression and desire . |
| 26 | Although the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against membership of the UN itself in a 1986 referendum [ see p. 34959 ] , Switzerland had since 1984 been a full participant in the General Arrangements to Borrow ( GAB ) established in 1962 , when the " Group of 10 " industrialized countries undertook to lend to the IMF . |
| 27 | They can arrange to mary you in a hot air balloon or on the beach , they can even invite along some monks to attend the proceedings . |
| 28 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |
| 29 | In order to defend the legislative principle of integrity , therefore , we must defend the general style of argument that takes the community itself as a moral agent . |
| 30 | After expressing the cooked garlic from its skin , puree it with a little vegetable oil , raw coriander root and leaf , plus black pepper . |