Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than speaking of the seeds of ideological doubt sown in Nizan 's mind , it is more appropriate to envisage 1934 as a necessary stage in Nizan 's deepening awareness of social reality ; the gradual abandonment , in other words , of a stylised and exaggerated picture of reality , and a progressive movement towards a recognition of the unpredictability and complexity of the social world . |
| 2 | Edward Stanley Baker , who died at Great Dunmow , Essex on March 15 at the age of 81 , played 32 matches for Worcestershire in 1933 and 1934 as an amateur wicket-keeper with 40 victims . |
| 3 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 4 | NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday . |
| 5 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 6 | Joining Rhenania in 1971 as a Forwarding Manager in Heilbronn , he became Manager of Spendition Schneider in 1984 . |
| 7 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 8 | UNLUCKY 13th minute for Millwall 's Malcolm Allen — sent-off for a tough tackle in the game against his former club Watford . |
| 9 | Some people would even question whether it is any longer right for a married woman to be expected to depend on her husband and to be unable to claim SB in her own right . |
| 10 | If the sound is right for a certain combination of musicians , or a certain style of music , then obviously you play better , but I do n't think there are very many people who have their sound , and go from one band to another just using that sound . |
| 11 | Simple pure cotton knitted sweater in white , brilliantly patterned with abstract motifs hand embroidered in primary shades of turquoise , gold and orange , just right for a sunny day with a bit of a breeze ! |
| 12 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 13 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 14 | We liked this little scene for the corner of a patio : the cane chair is just right for the simple planting around it and extra interest is created by using a large limestone boulder , gravel and creeping plants such as thyme . |
| 15 | But I like Danny Bascombe , and I believe he 's right for the changing face of Barbados . |
| 16 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
| 17 | Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ . |
| 18 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 19 | He flashed a sudden stunning smile and Robyn felt weak as a new surge of exhilaration raced through her . |
| 20 | It is rich for the hon. Member for Dagenham to claim that he is worried about the complexity of our proposal ; that from the hon. Gentleman who suggests that there should be property valuations on four different bases and annual rolling revaluations on a banded basis — although he keeps rather quiet about it . |
| 21 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 22 | Instead an intelligence officer had ploughed through Mills ' personal effects and leafed through a random selection of files . |
| 23 | ‘ But I am depressed about the usual attitude in schools . |
| 24 | Tamar laughed with her and realised that she felt less depressed about the forthcoming confinement after this little spell of humour . |
| 25 | The Human League 's snappy pop songs , drum machines and synthesisers were the embodiment of ‘ electro-pop ’ , the new teenage esperanto ; while Collins ' sleek , craftsmanlike records were the perfect palliative for an older generation of listeners , turned off by punk rock , whose interest in pop music would be rekindled by the coming phenomenon of the compact disc . |
| 26 | As depicted in Fig.1.5 , however , it is possible for a small proportion of the flux to " leak " via unexcited stator teeth . |
| 27 | 1 Although the politics of patronage lingered on , it was no longer possible for a small number of landowners to control the composition of the House of Commons , and the new independence this gave the Commons also reduced the controlling power of the King . |
| 28 | For the age range 14 and under 17 , prosecution is only possible for a limited number of offences on the authority of a magistrate , and the extended care , protection and control procedure is used in most cases . |
| 29 | It seems very likely that although there seems to be little in the idea of subliminal advertising , it is quite possible for a familiar ad for a familiar product to have at least some effect of reinforcing a favourable attitude without , to all intents and purposes , being consciously noted by the consumer at all . |
| 30 | It would certainly be possible for a cooling-off period to be introduced in Britain . |