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Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1	Mr Burn said Perry 's was due for a design rethink which would ‘ make the two venues most young people 's first choice for a night out ’ .
2	The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise .
3	I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot
4	Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al .
5	No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim .
6	The Lombards incorporated this into an iron crown which was used to crown the kings of Lombardy .
7	If you deal with a tied agent or direct with an insurance company you can ask how the cover offered meets your requirements , but you will need to shop around to determine the best option for you in terms of cover and price .
8	‘ I am interested in a registration scheme which really does promote the sorts of standards that users want — reliable and flexible services that they can control , ’ she says .
9	When the disk is found to be free from a virus infection it is given an electronic signature code .
10	When the disk is found to be free from a virus infection it is given an electronic signature code .
11	I mentioned this to a Fetlar man who used to hunt otters for their pelts , as many crofters did and he could tell me that there had been pale-coated otters in that area for at least fifty years .
12	I do n't know if I want to talk about this on a Saturday lunchtime I tell you Dan I mean it really is it 's erm What are you doing ?
13	Many years ago I had to call weekly on a woman client who was separated from her husband and caring ( very efficiently ) for a young family .
14	It requires riverside sites vacated by traditional shipbuilding and port functions and is absolutely dependent on a work force which got its initial training in ship-building and -repair .
15	They were introduced to one another by a woman friend who thought they should get on well in London as Margaret came of a better family and knew the people , and Ivy had the money .
16	Penn 's role was that of a rookie cop who believes that the only way to fight violence is with violence .
17	WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted .
18	In that case the defendant pleaded the defence of mistake , the mistake being that of a shop assistant who in a lapse of concentration put the wrong label on a piece of meat .
19	She recognised the name at once , that of a woman psychotherapist who had had particular success , Celia believed , with female patients .
20	This story runs parallel with that of a bank robbery which is being planned for 14th July by a group of petty criminals , some of whom are employed on the building site for the new hotel .
21	ELECTION day comes a little early for a Middlesbrough school which goes to the polls on Wednesday .
22	Although it was neglected , you could see signs of the initial planning , such as a rock garden which was completely overgrown . ’
23	Thus , if Mr X , who is not domiciled in the United Kingdom , puts property into a discretionary trust and at the time of the ten year charge the trust assets are not located in the United Kingdom , eg they are chattels such as a motor vehicle which is located outside the United Kingdom , no inheritance tax is in point .
24	‘ In one organisation , line managers were unaware of a goal statement which had clear implications for them , ’ it says .
25	This is made explicit in an executive letter which states that the ‘ objective of increasing the efficiency of the NHS will only be realised if competition delivers more in the value of savings and/or quality improvements than it adds to transaction costs ’ ( DoH , 1989g ) .
26	From 1997 , it says , all Christmas cards will be harmonised , subject to a phasing-in period which allows member states to opt out of certain features .
27	Although the test is claimed to be culture-fair and the instructions were presented in BSL , performance was lower , giving weight to the view of Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) that deaf people are subject to a test effect which generally depresses scores .
28	To permit the ex turpi causa defence to be relied upon as an answer to such a claim would , in my view , narrow to a substantial extent the deliberately wide wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 and would , in effect , make a claim for contribution subject to a condition precedent which is not to be found in the Act .
29	He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows .
30	They have Alan Watt and Shade Munro in the engine room , but will have to be alert against a Currie outfit which has grown in style and stature throughout the season .