Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time that a member of the military had been tried and found guilty of a human rights violation in 11 years of civil war marked by accusations of government-sanctioned torture , kidnapping and murder . |
| 2 | I was ( I think you will understand ) initially dubious about a single 10″ driver in such a small box really delivering the goods ( especially with the lower notes on my 5-string ) but was certainly intrigued by the cabinet design , so I was looking forward to giving the little beast some stick on a couple of gigs … |
| 3 | The Whigs rejected Lord Lyndhurst 's bill of 1842 for a small debts court , and the Lords shelved Lord Cottenham 's bill which The Times called ‘ as masterly a measure as was ever submitted to Parliament ’ , in deference to a pet bill which Lord Brougham had drafted . |
| 4 | It is therefore a good ideas to make copies from fairly early on of all language and anthropological materials , and to keep them in other places , such as a technical studies department or headquarters office . |
| 5 | It follows from this that a consumer who uses an appliance which is not " ordinarily intended for private use " , such as a heavy goods vehicle , will not be covered beyond death or personal injury under the CPA 1987 . |
| 6 | I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius . |
| 7 | The proximal duodenum was anastomosed to the recipient duodenum end-to-end with a running all-coats layer and interrupted seromuscular sutures . |
| 8 | In December 1989 the following security developments were reported : ( i ) the seizure by the police on Dec. 5 of a large arms cache and the arrest of five people suspected of being members of a white extremist assassination squad ; ( ii ) the acquittal of 12 police officers and a soldier on Dec. 11 by the Cape Town Supreme Court in South Africa 's first private prosecution for murder , arising from the 1985 " Trojan Horse " ambush in which three people were killed , and brought by the father of Shaun Magmoed , 16 , one of those killed in the attack ; and ( iii ) the setting aside on Dec. 15 of the convictions against all 11 defendants in the " Delmas " treason trial , which had ended in December 1988 [ see p. 36913 ] . |
| 9 | He graduated in 1884 with a second-class honours degree in modern history , taking his BA in 1885 and his MA in 1897 . |
| 10 | And it offers it all in a low-profile systems cabinet which is 30% smaller than comparable machines — yet designed by CompuAdd 212 provides the power and expandability to handle everything from word-processing and spreadsheets to network applications and presentation graphics . |
| 11 | ENTERTAINER Joe Longthorne has been involved in an amazing drugs mix-up in his search for a miracle cure for his cancer . |
| 12 | The legal procedures may be improved , but they are bound to remain vulnerable to an erroneous police case . |
| 13 | From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles . |
| 14 | But events have conspired to leave McGeechan well short of a full Lions choice . |
| 15 | But this modification may be more of a public relations coup than a genuine therapeutic improvement . |
| 16 | X100 will be smaller and much lighter than XJS — more of a true sports car |
| 17 | LEGENT OUTLINES ITS STRATEGY TO BECOME TOP DOG BY 1997 IN AN OPEN SYSTEMS WORLD |
| 18 | In the third abortion case before the Supreme Court , the state of Illinois is appealing against a federal appeals court decision to quash a law which obliged abortion clinics to be designed and equipped like small hospitals . |
| 19 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 20 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 21 | Tip Anderson of Arnold Palmer fame , once told me he never learnt the precise yardages on the Old Course for such details are useless in a capricious links wind . |
| 22 | Thus the idea that instruments are substitutes at all is rather damning for a restrictive practices policy which , like that currently in operation in the UK , is based upon form rather than effect . |
| 23 | A law against obscene libel was created by the judges , although Parliament gave some assistance in 1857 with an Obscene Publications Act which permitted magistrates to destroy immoral books found within their jurisdiction . |
| 24 | Kingfisher is calling on shareholders for as much as £313 million in a two-part rights issue to part finance the deal . |
| 25 | This course permits students with a general qualification in biology at degree level to undertake further study in specific areas of biological science up to a standard roughly equivalent to a specialised Honours degree . |
| 26 | It is true to a large extent for IBM and it is true for a branded goods company like Procter & Gamble . |
| 27 | Beginning in the 50s , we became active in a pre-civil rights movement and were later known as a civil rights school . |
| 28 | Although sympathetic to a progressive rights theory , Dignan attempts to avoid this problem by examining in some breadth and detail the validity of the assumptions made by Dworkin concerning modern liberal political systems , and argues that Dworkin 's assumptions may help provide the peace movement with a legal theory . |
| 29 | Visas are not required for entry into Bolivia , where you are given a 30-day entrance stamp , renewable at a federal police station in any major city . |
| 30 | A Zimbabwean student at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow was shot dead by a Russian police officer on Aug. 11 . |