Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty . |
| 2 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 3 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 4 | But when he spoke it was not of her but of Peach , how to feed him , what sort of supplements he should have , that although he had had his routine immunizations , he must have a booster at a year old and also an injection against a new sort of feline virus . |
| 5 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 6 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 7 | Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change . |
| 8 | What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place . |
| 9 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 10 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 11 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 12 | The plan of the book is related to its overall purpose of demystifying research , making it more accessible and more a part of everyday work and decision making . |
| 13 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 14 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 15 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 16 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 17 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 18 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
| 19 | Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors . |
| 20 | At the wedding ceremony , when the usual problem of naming his father had arisen , John put ‘ Lawrence Tiller ( deceased ) ’ but his son was called Lawrence , was still alive and now a man of twenty-nine , working as general manager in the business . |
| 21 | And then it was the cu , we 'd payed that and then a couple of weeks after it was the phone and then it was the gas ! |
| 22 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |
| 23 | First recorded in 1960 and possibly an offshoot of the Fishbourne colony . |
| 24 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 25 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 26 | ‘ The manager must be flexible but consistent , culturally diverse but recognisably an individual with his own identity . |
| 27 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 28 | It would be foolish , however , to argue that the problems created by the increasing urban demand for recreation in the countryside are entirely illusory or simply a matter of arbitrary taste : they clearly are not . |
| 29 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 30 | Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law . |