Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the scandal of the Westminster Council 's sale of cemeteries for 15 pence ; a report of an enterprising Yorkshireman , Edgar Dakin , who , shocked at the prices charged for memorial headstones in the conventional marble or granite , had patented his design for thermoplastic ones at a tiny fraction of the cost ; and yet another that was virtually a half-hour commercial on BBC television for the ubiquitous Hodgson Holdings . |
| 2 | The house was left empty and was often a target for vandals and Sutherland was unable to sell it . |
| 3 | They are usually developed in soft material and the relief of these and related forms may be up to 50 m ( 150 ft ) high but is usually a lot less . |
| 4 | If he were his value would be high because is also a forward . |
| 5 | Sorry that 's just a bit of advice |
| 6 | The oral shield is arrow shaped or light-bulb shaped and is about a quarter of the disk radius in length . |
| 7 | Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn . |
| 8 | Academic , or theoretical , discourse is not privileged but is instead a form of accounting which uses abstraction to illuminate . |
| 9 | in trying to answer these questions and psychological analyses and the whole appropriate to the age of the and I quote we must not forget that but is also a law giver and educator Egyptian Pharaoh undeniably Egyptian in origin . |
| 10 | It was black , the sort of black that is less a colour than a graveyard of colours , and there was a highly-ornate runic inscription up the blade . |
| 11 | In fact , the first report appeared in July 1992 and was mainly a description of the evaluation process . |
| 12 | However , although ‘ multiculturalism , as an educational movement dates from the 1970s and is primarily a response to the post-Second World War migration of black communities to Britain , it is important to recognize that multiculturalism is a perennial social issue , for all but the simplest of societies are characterized by cultural diversity . |
| 13 | It will be available after 1997 and is essentially a travel document whose validity has been questioned by a number of countries . |
| 14 | Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals . |
| 15 | He was an Examiner with SCOTVEC from 1978 to 1981 , a member of the SCOTVEC Equivalences Committee during the introduction of Action Plan , served on the HND Revisions Committee in 1986 , the HNC Pilot Committee in 1987 and is currently a member of the HCIMA Education and Development Committee . |
| 16 | But to automatically assume that this is the woman 's role when other choices are available or when the task can be shared is n't fair and is certainly a point of discussion . |
| 17 | He was a member of the President 's Advisory Committee of the Confederation of British Industry from 1982 to 1988 and is currently a member of the Takeover Panel . |
| 18 | Mr. Collins said that Winchester was ‘ subject ’ to the Lautro Rules 1988 and was therefore a member of Lautro . |