Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to allow Mr Onanuga to return to work , revealed after a five-hour private disciplinary hearing at the Thresher HQ in Welwyn Garden City , appears to vindicate him . |
| 2 | The Colonel and himself had entered negotiations after a celebratory two thirty dinner for which Mrs Wood had polished all her arts and cutlery . |
| 3 | Ellis and Everard , the chemicals distribution group fell 16 pence to 180 pence after announcing a 29 million pound rights issue and the acquisition of 2 companies in the U S Elsewhere , S T C firmed 9 pence to 243 pence after a favourable Annual General Meeting statement . |
| 4 | Celebrities have given a big welcome back to a theatre that 's reopened after a two hundred thousand pound pound refit . |
| 5 | The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital 's cobalt unit opened only last September after a massive public fund-raising drive . |
| 6 | Bryan Robson will be back in the starting line-up at Norwich , replacing the suspended Mark Hughes , and after a brief 14 minute cameo — his first in the Premier League for more than three months — his manager said : ‘ His presence will be important . ’ |
| 7 | Weighted mean grade over 5.1 m is 7.6g/t Au , 19.9g/t Ag and 0.9 per cent Pb from detailed sampling of a 200 m long trench . |
| 8 | But his procedure was different in an important way from any we have examined so far ; rather than counting the variants of a postulated underlying syntactic variable , he examined variation in the surface exponence of four semantic categories : hot news , resultative , extended now and indefinite anterior , exemplified by 39 , 40 , 43 and 44 . |
| 9 | At the talks , Thatcher played down her previous insistence on updating NATO 's ground-launched , short-range Lance missiles , but still wanted NATO to retain a nuclear capacity on German soil in the shape of a modernized air-launched nuclear missile system . |
| 10 | Alice Walker , the author , starts the letters at the beginning of the book , telling the story of a poor black 14 year old girl called Celie , and continues right to the end of the book when Celie is a middle aged woman . |
| 11 | To be sure , Guatemala has some of the virtues of a poor Latin American democracy . |
| 12 | Certainly , to repeat , the terms " subject " and " object " are not to be taken as carrying with them the Cartesian theory of a subject in the sense of a simple indivisible mental substance whose identity over time is primitive and irreducible . |
| 13 | public support for the rule that a first use of nuclear weapons , even in a defensive mode in response to or in reasonable anticipation of a prior non-nuclear armed attack , would violate international law and would constitute a crime against humanity ; |
| 14 | A 29-year-old north Belfast man admitted the murder of a Roman Catholic voluntary worker , Belfast Crown Court heard . |
| 15 | ‘ Six pairs of knickers must be enough , must n't it , Charlie ? ’ she enquired of a tall dark-blond young man , unmistakably her brother , who was piling plates into a dishwasher and making two cups of coffee . |
| 16 | The meeting took place at Cherbourg in August 1858 , coinciding with the opening of a vast new deep-water dock and the unveiling of a statue of Napoleon I , the Queen and Prince Albert having crossed in the Royal Yacht accompanied by the Prince of Wales and escorted by 140 private English yachts . |
| 17 | And so while the corvette glided on towards its illuminated dock , as a minnow might swim into the mouth of a vast phosphorescent deep-sea predator , the interrupted service of thanksgiving continued . |
| 18 | In a battle between ancients and moderns which is frequently waged in English departments , Renaissance writing is too often perceived at the centre of the argument for the preservation of a restrictive high cultural ethos in literary study . |
| 19 | The signing in Budapest , the Hungarian capital , of a bilateral Hungarian-Ukrainian military co-operation agreement was announced on March 3 . |
| 20 | Safety has been built into the design in the form of a clever three-way switching system . |
| 21 | The change in attitude was perhaps most clearly evident in Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities , where Urwick and his collaborators saw the boy neither ‘ as an amusing playmate nor as a vagrant from the ecclesiastical fold , but as the product of a still imperfect educational system and the embryo of the citizen who would decide the destiny of a still inchoate democracy ’ . |
| 22 | He is both rudderless and becalmed , and the futurity conjured by his letter blends the metaphysical frustration of a brilliant unhoused intellectual torpor with human impossibility : you ca n't cross a river on a chip of wood . |
| 23 | Bottom , between those of the Lovers in the pas de deux and those of Titania and Bottom , the movements grow out of a firm technical choreographic design . |
| 24 | Literature distributed at the rally and the speeches from the platform stressed respect for the Ten Commandments , deplored the loss of a firm traditional moral stand by national leaders , and called for a return to Christian moral standards , buttressed by firm legal controls and sanctions . |
| 25 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 26 | This is the result of the combined effects of a low estimated real-wage elasticity of demand for labour and of controversially low estimates of the natural unemployment rates for these four countries . |
| 27 | The fact that some Japanese have heart attacks and some Finns do not is no argument against the overall benefit of a low national average serum cholesterol . |
| 28 | He parked ten yards or so after the last house , outside a wire-mesh fence in front of a late 1950s prefabricated school . |
| 29 | Little is known of the history of the tower , which is part of a late 13th-century fortified manor house , but the remarkable paintings — ranging from biblical subjects to scenes of everyday rural life — tell a fascinating story of their own . |
| 30 | Initially elated by the electoral successes of the Popular Front in France and Spain , subsequently encouraged by the spirited defence of Republican Spain , and convinced at all times that the ultimate safeguard for international security was the presence of a strong revolutionary Soviet state , Nizan remained confident . |