Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’
32 In two of the three morbidly obese subjects , there was an absence of the early urinary APGPR immunoreactivity peaks in concentration and excretion and only a slow rise in urinary APGPR concentration at four to six hours .
33 Bear that in mind and also an important part of communications that 's why there 's always so many problems about which is right .
34 Er in December nineteen eighty eight er I was a police constable , I was stationed at I was er a firearms instructor in the operations department and also a tactical advisor .
35 The progress department is sometimes part of the production department and sometimes a separate entity .
36 Modern technology has seen to that , giving them a machine to make their early morning tea and even an electronic handset to save them having to get out of their chairs in the evening to change the television channel .
37 Liverpool 's docks were thronged with visitors , eager to see around warships and even a German submarine , which were opened to the public .
38 ‘ It 's an exciting challenge , and I am confident , given time , thorough research and perhaps a little bit of luck , we will find them . ’
39 First , it was his knee , then an achilles and finally a broken finger .
40 MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B.
41 ‘ The journey to the hacienda is difficult by car and quite a long way .
42 Reduction in death rates during the sixty-year period meant a larger labour force and hence a higher rate of economic growth .
43 This ensures that complete tables and only complete tables are approved , or that a single oddball entry and only a single oddball entry is approved .
44 Among the casualties at Assandun in 1016 were several important East Anglians and doubtless a large number of lesser people .
45 If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day .
46 They concluded that , especially in relation to fluvial processes , explanations that ignore the role of human activities run the risk of eliminating one of the most significant variables and perhaps an appropriate note on which to end this chapter is their affirmation that ( Graf , Trimble , Toy and Costa , 1980 , p. 281 ) :
47 A causal circumstance , in accordance with the non-redundancy criterion , does not include a particular condition and also a causal circumstance for that condition , or any part of one .
48 Rapid growth ( high productivity ) means ready absorption of red light and so a greater difference between red and NIR bidirectional reflectance than one with slower growth .
49 But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it .
50 Though the right wing had lost much of its political leverage in the Cortes , their opposition found voice in growing street violence and eventually a military uprising which was to start the civil war .
51 The purchaser will need to remember that a minimum delay of between 14 and 21 clear days may be needed in between exchange and completion if either an ordinary resolution or special resolution of shareholders is needed .
52 If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold .
53 ‘ We are meeting urgent local housing needs by providing affordable , high quality new homes and thus an improved quality of life . ’
54 A Department of the Environment report on eleven such schemes found that there was often little or no consultation with tenants over the future of their homes and only a small proportion of the purchasers were local authority tenants or people on the council waiting list .
55 The second involves the settling of cells onto a slide surface through a sucrose , saline or other solution , and has been used principally for oocytes , but may be useful for spermatocytes if only a thin suspension is available .
56 It is dry and it is almost aggressively refreshing — great starbursts of lime juice and orange peel and just a little grapeyness , creating a most unusual citrus cocktail for a warm , spring day .
57 According to the Archbishop of Canterbury , ‘ There seems to be a movement from consensus to confrontation and also a growing scale of confrontation . ’
58 With this the two of them wall up the entrance until only a tiny slot is left open .
59 And er what , four the rest I think it was one pound five a Twenty five shillings every three months and you got a sovereign and often a five shilling piece .
60 A dry hacking cough and later a large quantity of thin watery or frothy mucus is expectorated .
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