Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 2 | You can knock this one into a cocked hat Maggie . |
| 3 | We have n't done this one for a long time have we ? |
| 4 | The next landing stage , this one at a tree-covered spur projecting from the opposite shore of the lake , bears the sign " Tellsplatte " ; nearby is a memorial chapel to the folk hero who is reputed to have leapt ashore at this spot escaping from an Austrian-manned boat that was carrying him to prison . |
| 5 | I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it . |
| 6 | Successive home defeats , this one by a single goal , have seen them plummet from second to 10th , and their next two games are away to the leaders , Sheffield United , and at home to second-placed Sunderland . |
| 7 | She 's another one for a quiet life . |
| 8 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 9 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 10 | And if you 're determined to make a new life for yourself , Jessamy , it would be much better for you if you did n't end the old one on a sour note . |
| 11 | He had made Huddersfield a great club , and in so doing established himself as a unique figure , the first of the modern soccer managers . |
| 12 | There is no reason why these should not be made in the home provided the design is kept to a simple one for a first attempt . |
| 13 | The problem with such ladder filters is that , in general , each section loads the preceding one with a different impedance making it difficult to predict the overall performance of the ladder or to design a ladder to meet a given specification . |
| 14 | I do n't know , I do n't think it 's from there but it was similar to , similar Jenny , and Sam had a like ribbed one with a big neck which was fawn coloured and Jenny had like an arran . |
| 15 | In tests , this gave much better results than a standard one in a red encapsulation . |
| 16 | … in every way like the man , as a twin brother and companion , haunting him as his shadow , both before and after the original is dead ; and was also often seen of old to enter a Hous , by which the People knew that the Person of that Liknes wes to Visite them within a few days . |
| 17 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 18 | Small tee shirt in white one for a small child is n't it ? |
| 19 | Yes it 's a white one with a black head . |
| 20 | And then comes another machine ( or the previous one with a new attachment ) which sucks up all the nuts and any other loose debris lying around on the ground . |
| 21 | The appeal committee report relates other gifts , including the unusual one of a free management consultancy report from the firm of Monitor . |
| 22 | I mean , Mick has maybe a deeper one in a narrower area , so I learned a lot from him . |
| 23 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 24 | Place the balls , well-spaced apart , on greased baking sheets and flatten each one into a plump round . |
| 25 | 2 Divide dough into 18 balls and , on a floured surface , roll each one into a thin pancake to fit a 23cm/9in frying pan . |
| 26 | Each hen can lay up to thirty eggs but deposits each one in a different pit . |
| 27 | A female jacana can lay up to eight clutches of eggs , each one in a different male 's nest . |
| 28 | But there is a big difference between controlling for a prior variable and finding that the original relationship disappears and controlling for an intervening one with a similar result . |
| 29 | I 'd thought about that one for a long time , wondering who Beya and Gabricus were , and had paid little attention to the note in brackets which had been added afterwards : ( Frater mysticus meus . ) |
| 30 | We 'll have to write that one with a indelible pen . |