Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork . |
| 2 | Rural areas supplied not only agricultural products but also a considerable proportion of manufacturing output . |
| 3 | I think we need not only a strong parliament but also a strong presidency . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker . |
| 5 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 6 | If you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense , would n't it so the background if you like would be different would n't it with high rise and maybe a different . |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | For some women at this stage , cooking can become an absorbing hobby rather than the necessity of life it was when there were others to feed — a social pleasure or simply a personal indulgence . |
| 9 | There is no serious dissent from the general proposition that we should have a system which combines a thorough examination of all individual claims , a clear exposition of the criteria against which they are being assessed , all proper speed and then a clear decision , whether positive or negative , and an effective right of appeal before removal for those whose claims have been rejected . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 12 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 13 | He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child . |
| 14 | If the one we crossed this time was a steep climb and then a pleasant sweep into a warm green valley , and not the mountains of the moon , I was the better pleased , because although it was different it was also wonderful , and because I felt instinctively that the heights must be earned . |
| 15 | No lunch is provided and it does not take long to eat what little they bring — a bit of salad , some bread and maybe a hard-boiled egg . |
| 16 | But this was such specialized work that only a lucky few got it , none of them women . |
| 17 | Although the Romans maintained a number of marching camps across the Lowlands such as those at Pennymuir , Roxburgh , and Glenlochar in Kirkcudbrightshire , signal stations on heights such as the Eildon Hills , and sentinel forts substantially reinforced at one time and another , these were subjected to repeated tribal attacks and occasionally a combined assault . |
| 18 | There was more to this canal than just a final obstacle , however . |
| 19 | ( b ) Separate practice The decision must be taken as to whether the business of a new office is to be integrated with that of the main office or whether it is to be run ( or the extent to which it is to be run ) as a separate , self-financing enterprise or even a separate partnership but using the same firm-name . |
| 20 | We shall see , in fact , that the case for French sources and thus a possible Anglo-Norman bridge is most persuasive and pertinent in respect of the fabliaux in English with what we shall be able to identify as the " earliest " features : Dame Sirith and Chaucer 's Shipman 's Tale . |
| 21 | How could there be an English policy seriously at odds with British policy and still a British policy worthy of the name ? |
| 22 | , John Edward Courtenay ( 1853–1925 ) , author , was born 6 June 1853 at King Street , Hanley , Staffordshire , the son of Edward Fisher Bodley , commercial traveller and later a wealthy pottery owner , and his second wife Mary Ridgway . |
| 23 | Thus , on a smooth sea , under a clear sky and later a full moon , about seven miles [ 11 km ] off the Yorkshire coast , the Battle of Flamborough Head began , around 7 pm on Thursday 23 September 1779 . |
| 24 | Obviously there is also the money element , and by returning to work you can perhaps give your child other benefits you might not otherwise be able to afford such as foreign holidays or maybe a private education . |
| 25 | A daring and devious regicide or merely a clumsy archer ? |
| 26 | It is , for example , a public space and yet a private one too , as an extension of the adjacent buildings . |
| 27 | Councillor Sandra Plummer from Camden and the Socialist Lesbian Group , speaking in one of the plenary sessions , argued that socialists have got to stop seeing lesbian liberation as just a civil liberties issue . |
| 28 | Each abounds in imaginative little surprises — sudden lapses into folk themes or popular dances and even a mock ‘ Turkish ’ episode enliven their finales . |
| 29 | They thus found particularly congenial the work of those anthropologists such as Bachofen , and again Morgan , who saw primitive kinship as almost a total reversal of the family as they knew it . |
| 30 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |