Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After their introduction on the Fleetwood service , journey time was reduced to 32 minutes on a five-minute headway . |
| 2 | Chris Burton , a Featherstone substitute , was sent off after 32 minutes for a high tackle on Craig Izzard , and visitors Leeds went on to win 22-20 . |
| 3 | For 1993 Mr Fothergills again lead the way in revivals with ‘ Night and Day ’ after spotting just one plant of this white-throated , crimson flowered variety in a four-acre field of ‘ Black Prince ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ You were carrying a concealed weapon contrary to social format and I note that you sport the open-necked look in a zany tie zone . |
| 5 | And the technical reliability of a crucial design feature of the plant — its steam-generators — remain a matter of conjecture . |
| 6 | Chartism articulated experience within a complex rhetoric that interpellated radical working-class support at a national level . |
| 7 | He was probably as tough as old leather , cycling his rural route with a heavy sack every morning . |
| 8 | The traditional costume of the men is white baggy knee-length trousers , a white long-sleeved and open-necked shirt with a soft collar and a red sash at the waist . |
| 9 | She was immediately conscious of every line of the taut muscular body , from his shoulders beneath the open-necked shirt to a slim waist and lean thighs beneath the dark trousers he was wearing . |
| 10 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 11 | The company has also been asked to consider spinning cellular operations into a separate company . |
| 12 | We have seen in this chapter how a dual structure of production has been maintained in Japan through the interconnected activities of private business and a state which has supported the simultaneous existence of a limited number of larger companies and a massive network of smaller ones . |
| 13 | It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise . |
| 14 | If endorsed by the cabinet and the ANC 's national executive committee , and in due course by a multi-party conference , it would effectively postpone majority rule until the year 2000 . |
| 15 | In January 1990 , prices rose by 1.8 per cent , the largest rise in a single month on record . |
| 16 | In his first pleasure at being admitted to this inner circle of learning he had compared it to Dante 's Paradiso , in which the saints and patriarchs and virgins sat in orderly ranks in a circular formation , a huge rose , and also the leaves of a huge volume , once scattered through the universe , now gathered . |
| 17 | Information on living standards in the FES and GHS is to be linked at the aggregate level of a given household type and income level . |
| 18 | She looked like some grotesque statue in a pagan ritual . |
| 19 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 20 | Owners of a historic building on a valuable site who are determined to realize substantial sums on the property often allow the building to decay during the years of indecision . |
| 21 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 22 | Having won in Bratislava on Monday with an impressive 17.18 metres , the Commonwealth silver medallist is laying strong foundations for a serious medal bid in Spain . |
| 23 | But in general Boniface was one of the greatest exponents of a high view of metropolitan and episcopal power which would confront the reformers who asserted papal authority in the eleventh century . |
| 24 | For these reasons , ‘ the task of the left , in relation to the ‘ regional question ’ , should be to demonstrate the class nature of regional problems and state policy and institutions , and expose the use of spatial ideology as a dominant class strategy to split the labour movement . ’ |
| 25 | Advanced RISC Machines Ltd , Cambridge , UK has licensed Apple Computer Inc 's partner on the Newton personal digital assistant , Sharp Corp to manufacture and market its ARM processors and associated products on a worldwide basis . |
| 26 | Perhaps paradoxically , it is argued that the money supply should not be manipulated by the monetary authorities on a short-term basis because the existence of such lags would make the effect of monetary policy uncertain , although powerful . |
| 27 | This done , I set each processor to a different effect and balanced the quantity of each effect coming into the Quad-FX with the four trim pots . |
| 28 | By now Haslam was firmly on the management ladder at ICI and his broad experience of a wide variety of jobs and functions under the company 's rotation scheme was clearly paying dividends . |
| 29 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 30 | ’ The value of an air ambulance service remains uncertain , compared with the use of that money in a different way . |