Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Max Warren is right to caution against an obsessive preoccupation with numbers , I believe that he overstates the case when he is so dismissive of all quantity measurement . |
| 2 | The 21-year-old sprinter , who failed a pre-Games drugs test in July , is due to appeal to an independent tribunal within the next few weeks against his four-year ban imposed by the British Athletic Federation . |
| 3 | on the one hand to provide a platform for asserting labor 's right to contend on an equal footing with capital but , on the other hand , to limit the very capacity to engage in militant confrontation . |
| 4 | It is also possible to appeal against an interim order under s94(1) ( see Chapter 7 ) or apply for discharge under s39 as discussed at 8 below . |
| 5 | That coupled with an away win over Connacht champions Mayo was a timely boost for morale . |
| 6 | Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix . |
| 7 | That points to an annual rate of 310% . |
| 8 | In fact , if it were n't for the big blue logo and Oli Frey pic on the cover , there 'd be little to indicate to an early reader that this was indeed the same mag ! |
| 9 | We devote $300m of research and development expenditure exclusively to the systems division , which has annual revenues of $2,360m : that corresponds to an respectable level of 12% . ’ |
| 10 | That said , the prevalence of NSAID intake was not significantly lower than that reported in an Australian community prevalence study after correction for a lower proportion of women in the present study . |
| 11 | This led to an estimated total of 1154 anal cancers ( 422 men and 732 women ) diagnosed in Denmark during 1943–87 . |
| 12 | This led to an early invention of annealing , whereby the metal might be softened by sudden heating and quenching . |
| 13 | This led to an occasional resetting of my settings when I may have been distracted . |
| 14 | This led to an unfortunate incident at Leamington Station in 1874 . |
| 15 | The British consul in Israel maintained that Hurd 's statements to the politicians had been misunderstood , that the UK remained committed to Palestinian self-determination , and that the question of whether or not this led to an independent state was a Palestinian issue . |
| 16 | The first of these is the view of Blume , MacKinlay and Terker ( 1989 ) that the spot market , particularly shares in the S&P500 index , suffered from illiquidity in the face of very high volumes , and this led to an excessive fall in their prices ( see Section 13.3 for further discussion of this study ) . |
| 17 | This led to an enduring friendship , the closest of Ackerley 's life . |
| 18 | This led to an enormous diversity of plants , none of them doing particularly well and none taken out by trees . |
| 19 | To start with , there are more energy levels : for a d 3 system , for instance , the ground free ion term is usually 4 F , but this splits in an octahedral field into three levels — 4 A 2g , 4 T 2g and 4 T 1g , just as the f orbitals split into a 2u , t 2u and t 1u sets in an octahedral field . |
| 20 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 21 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 22 | Another thing — why did another machine with an electric motor make slight loops , occasionally on the right of the machine only ? |
| 23 | This occurred at an end-of-season game where a large crowd was gathered to celebrate the team 's promotion to the second division . |
| 24 | This seemed like an excellent idea . |
| 25 | In the gravitational case the dipole term contains a factor which equals the net force , and this vanishes for an isolated system . |
| 26 | Prospects for 1993 depend on an early go-ahead for the Jubilee Line and an increase in the number of prospects in the water sector . |
| 27 | The Faculty of Arts offers the following degrees : MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) , in both of which a student takes a spread of subjects with some studied to an advanced level ; and the MA(Honours) , in which a student concentrates on one or two subjects in depth for most of the period of study . |
| 28 | This smacks of an orchestrated campaign by those who are opposed to his policies and would like to do him dirt . ’ |
| 29 | Not only is this seen as an important element in strengthening the drive to promote ‘ value for money ’ but it has also been seen as an important cog in the machinery of accountability to Parliament . |
| 30 | This results from an increased level of the hormone progesterone in the blood , which normally occurs as the result of pregnancy , but sometimes takes place without conception . |