Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) ‘ firm ’ means an unincorporated partnership consisting of solicitors or recognised bodies or both , or a multi-national partnership and includes also a solicitor who is a sole practitioner ; |
| 2 | So step two becomes , probably , reversing that vote and inserting instead a further amendment to the bill allowing for the social issue to be addressed , in line with the earlier decision of the House , after the treaty is ratified . |
| 3 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 4 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 5 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 6 | So , I wonder whether er , as ari er , a matter arising out of this , erm er , the director of education could , erm er , perhaps address this issue and put forward a paper to the next education committee . |
| 7 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 8 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 9 | They were used mainly to provide public works and made only a marginal impact upon the distressed : the Poplar workhouse was severely overcrowded in both winters . |
| 10 | Recovering quickly from a slow start , John Gosden 's colt settled matters in the space of a few strides when sent ahead a furlong out . |
| 11 | In this dialogue Masefield offers a brief recapitulation to steady his headlong narrative and offers also a facet of the lad 's character , linking the ebullience of youth to the enforced maturity of the adventure . |
| 12 | The Grand Sanctuary was a vast building and stood only a short distance from the palace of Westminster . |
| 13 | He is current chairman of Cleveland Art Society , which has around 100 members and meets once a week at Middlesbrough Art Gallery . |
| 14 | He never found work , made no male friends and had only a passing acquaintance with people in a local pub , including the 20-year-old barmaid . |
| 15 | The snail is hermaphrodite … and as long as it enjoys the right warmth and humidity , each individual mates and produces about a hundred eggs which are laid on trays of soil.They hatch a fortnight later.And they 're fattened on a cereal diet … either in trays or in polyeurathane tubs . |
| 16 | It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone . |
| 17 | Preece beat the keeper again five minutes later , controlling a pass from the right wing and rifling home a right foot shot from 10 yards out . |
| 18 | The Arab governments and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) rejected the idea of a regional conference and supported instead a UN-supervised international conference on the Middle East , attended by a full PLO delegation . |
| 19 | She wondered how he would be , whether she 'd cope , what she would say , and had just decided to rehearse an opening line when , with a jolt deep in the pit of her stomach , she saw him , weaving through the clusters of people , coming towards her , looking , as always , more handsome than she remembered , dressed in dark , well-cut trousers and a crisp white shirt that revealed just a glimpse of his tanned chest , the strength of dark matted hair . |
| 20 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 21 | Similar experiments , of greater variety and equal sophistication , have long been used to test human perceptual abilities but cause scarcely a ripple over the apparatus of our everyday perceptual judgements . |
| 22 | The smoothing recipe described below generally gives satisfactory results and involves only a limited amount of computational effort . |
| 23 | These paintings do not differ fundamentally from his work of the previous autumn and represent only a very gentle movement towards a softer , more lyrical kind of painting . |
| 24 | As the former Director of WHO Global Programme on AIDS has said : ‘ Denial at personal , social , national and international level has been a constant problem and remains today a grave threat to public health . ’ |
| 25 | In 1976 Rossler [ 23 ] introduced a simpler three-dimensional system that has only a single nonlinear cross-term , zx : ( 2.4 ) unc where a , b and c are constants . |
| 26 | Currently some 28,000 co-operative farms and 2,600,000 ejidatarios accounted for half of all arable land but contributed only a small percentage of gross national income , and much of the country 's food was imported . |
| 27 | She was determined that it was n't he who had affected her appetite either , and went down to dinner that night and ate quite a substantial meal , only to return to her room and spend the next hour again having trouble ousting the wretched man . |
| 28 | Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality . |
| 29 | Our most up to date probing of Intel Corp 's P5 or Pentium architecture — given that the company is sending different messages to different parts of the industry — has the processor running at only two thirds of its promised speed and needing both a heat sink and fan to dissipate the heat it is producing . |
| 30 | His red , lumpy features were transfigured and he stopped being a badly assembled mass of fleshy fragments and became instead a vital man . |