Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S. Gimignano , near Siena , is the outstanding instance where a number of towers still survive and these date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 2 | Another case where a covenant of indemnity by a third or subsequent buyer is appropriate , arises when the first buyer ( A ) has entered into positive covenants , and as the original covenantor will continue liable after selling ; A therefore takes a covenant of indemnity from A 's buyer ( B ) , not limited to A 's period of ownership ; B therefore takes from B 's buyer ( C ) a covenant against liability under B's covenant with A. Very complicated , but logical . |
| 3 | and erm if you listen to things on the radio they they have at the end of a sentence or at the end of some sentence quite a pause for a second before they go on |
| 4 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 5 | But how far was British industry simply a victim of circumstances ? |
| 6 | ‘ People said I was brave setting up a company at such a time , ’ recalls Mr Chambers , adding ‘ Brave ’ is a back-handed way of saying ‘ You 're mad ’ . ’ |
| 7 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 8 | There is present in this hall today a number of people who are concerned with the future of Skelton . |
| 9 | We are reminded by the silences in Leapor 's texts that the pursuit of happiness as an enabling myth , in terms of official precept accessible to women through romantic love and marriage , remains in this period largely a privilege of bourgeois male subjects . |
| 10 | For those who liked cleaning their buttons there was button polish and a British parade once a year on the King 's Birthday . |
| 11 | Another area where a policy of sustainable tourism is to be welcomed is the Himalaya . |
| 12 | CAMPAIGNING nuclear workers took their message to the top earlier this month when a party of 48 travelled to lobby MPs at Westminster . |
| 13 | This season quite a number of the ‘ new ’ introductions are revivals from the past , and I must say it is good to see them back . |
| 14 | As with speaker variables generally , there is despite the apparent specificity of this variable still a problem of interpretation ; many other speaker variables are associated with political orientation such as , for example , an affinity for peasant rather than urban life . |
| 15 | One potential criticism of the pH/pCO 2 method is that investigators may be measuring dissolved CO 2 in perfusing solution that has diffused as CO 2 gas down a mucosa to lumen concentration gradient , rather than occurring due to secreted bicarbonate ions . |
| 16 | I 've heard this film , seen this film quite a number of times and it really is good . |
| 17 | Some way away a couple of humans were using some sort of machines to load boxes into a hole in the side of the plane . |
| 18 | Into this arena then a book like Petch 's comes as a tremendous boost to the debate , in that not only does it provide an excellent summary of this area of community care policy ( including Scottish policy ) , but it also goes into the microcosms of eleven supported accommodation projects and looks at how such policy works in practice . |
| 19 | This way rather a lot of calories can be consumed ; the chart gives the number of calories per ounce of dried fruit . |
| 20 | If it 's not possible to buttonhole the parent in this way then a note in friendly terms saying that ‘ we have a problem and could we meet to discuss ways that the school may be able to help ? ’ is an approach that is likely to bring about a positive response . |
| 21 | This time nearly a quarter of the bottom band and 10 per cent of the top two-thirds of pupils used the wrong scale . |
| 22 | Since , however , this is an object relation — that is , since that bad object is itself a part of the ego — this denial is to some extent also a denial of a part of the ego . |
| 23 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 24 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 25 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 26 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 27 | Freud preferred to help an individual work out a set of goals and norms for himself , within the psychoanalytic setting , rather than propose a return to a tightly structured civilization . |
| 28 | Pachinko is a £3.8bn-a-year industry which has a Svengali-like hold over a quarter of the adult population . |
| 29 | Eventually , he found it , lying down on the Kālādika — an open , grassy plateau about a quarter of a mile outside the village — the nearest place where the cattle were taken to graze . |
| 30 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |