Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb mod] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what we have to bear in mind of course er the f financial propriety of this council would in a sense have been very easy over the years if the labour party previously had trimmed its budget according to what we could all afford . |
| 2 | Re-definition on such lines could without a statute be effected by the House of Lords , which alone has sufficient authority to attempt the task , and would not involve much disturbance of decided cases ; there are certainly many obiter dicta at all levels to be sacrificed , but that would be a most desirable result . |
| 3 | With the present pace of things these survivors may in a generation 's time become a picturesque memory like the yeoman 's smock . |
| 4 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 5 | ( The most important of these is of course that that person should as a result of the testator 's intention have received a benefit under his will . ) |
| 6 | There is a belief that mild mental handicap may in a sense be inherited in a way that most severe mental handicaps are not , although public understanding would be to the contrary . |
| 7 | If the court or the arbitrator should find against the validity of the expulsion , the injured partner should as a matter of common sense be given the opportunity of retiring from the firm on short notice : relations with those party to an attempt to expel him could scarcely be expected to remain harmonious . |
| 8 | Each authority should within a year produce a development plan showing how these changes would be achieved — some laggards took until 1951 . |
| 9 | The Gospels , indeed the whole of the Bible , are sketchy documents , which no responsible scholar would for a moment consider absolutely reliable as historical testimony . |
| 10 | The implications of this failure are very far-reaching because , it is only if market forces can be counted on to produce good , or even tolerable , results that the abdication from all responsibility for strategic policy-making can for a moment be justified . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it does believe it is appropriate that the strategic thrust of the policy should be based on the premise that development proposals likely to be consid considered acceptable in the open countryside will in a sense represent the exception rather than the rule . |
| 12 | Contesting articulations of musical practices could as a rule now arise only at the level of consumption . |
| 13 | The total cost may as a consequence increase . |
| 14 | Yet however suspect may be the capacity of electors in general to vote responsibly and intelligently their right to make political choices must in a democracy be respected . |
| 15 | This will create a truly remarkable situation , a police force of two thousand two hundred officers will at a stroke have their powers removed . |
| 16 | Nationalistic sentiment may for a while distort commercial viability . |