Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday we rose early and after a good breakfast were eager to get out on the hills . |
| 2 | Carl moved into agency at NEMS in the late 1970s and after a few years was instrumental in the formation of the PAN agency . |
| 3 | I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week . |
| 4 | In business sales cases the assignment of the benefit of a restrictive covenant is usual upon a sale of goodwill and will be implied if not excluded : Townsend v Jarman [ 1900 ] 2 Ch 698 . |
| 5 | The difference in the structure of each successive member of a homologous series is CH2- . |
| 6 | The motivational system of a higher organism is complex , comprising several distinct types of mechanism expressed through differing behavioural means . |
| 7 | In emphasising the significance of the ‘ socio-political context ’ , Grant and Wallace point out that the existence of a pro-labour climate is likely to encourage high levels of violence . |
| 8 | Although suggestions of a Labour government are premature with an election possibly two years off , Kenneth Baker , Conservative Party chairman , yesterday accepted his party was in some difficulties . |
| 9 | Now the Swindon based offshoot of a Swedish company is ready to exploit a new process . |
| 10 | The 1976 DoE circular on the safeguarding of agricultural land defined the general policy as being ‘ to ensure that , as far as possible , land of a higher agricultural quality is not taken for development where land of a lower quality is available , and that the amount of land taken should be no greater than is reasonably required for carrying out the development in accordance with proper standards ’ . |
| 11 | An organism able to check the growth of a competing species is fortunate and better equipped to survive , so we should expect that many living organisms are successful exponents of chemical warfare . |
| 12 | Given that a very precise and reliable estimate of a required yield is unattainable anyway , the problems of both interdependence and estimation of covariances from key factors may be less severe if financial analysts work with the more homogeneous SBU as the unit of classification , rather than with a division which may contribute to various corporate business activities . |
| 13 | For example , the flexural ( bending ) stiffness of a flat panel is proportional to the cube of its thickness . |
| 14 | The advantages of a single-tier system are considerable . |
| 15 | Some evidence of a similar development is apparent in the Canadian jurisprudence . |
| 16 | Allied controls had been reduced and the Constitutional Court had dismissed an SPD claim that German membership of a European Army was uncon-stitutional . |
| 17 | Early diagnosis and radical treatment of a bleeding pseudoaneurysm is mandatory . |
| 18 | Quantum leaps from working class to the chair of a board of directors of a multinational corporation are rare , which is why they attract so much attention when they occur . |
| 19 | They were by now in Piccadilly Circus , which was as bright as day , and were surrounded by the crowds streaming from the theatres , cafés and dives which populated the area , painted ladies of a certain character being prominent among them — as well as the enthusiastic amateurs who had come up from the East End to make a few pennies , or even be given supper , as a price for their favours . |
| 20 | Wherever it is thought important to claim that things of a certain sort are good , being of that sort can not be what ‘ good ’ means ( what the property good is ) . |
| 21 | Even in our more ‘ meritocratic ’ society , the notion that members of a certain class are good at ‘ leadership ’ , for example , is widely held , and is scorned only by ‘ professional , sceptics such as sociologists and trade unionists . |
| 22 | The idea of a home-grown recession is ludicrous . |
| 23 | The first signs of a blocked drain are likely to be overflowing gullies or manhole covers or a blocked downstairs WC . |
| 24 | Sometimes the Senate would decree that the son of a deceased emperor was unfit to succeed his father . |
| 25 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 26 | ‘ Mam used to make bilberry pie , ’ said Beuno , ‘ and sometimes we 'd have trout , but her idea of a real treat was tinned salmon and tinned peaches . ’ |
| 27 | To an English ear unaccustomed to such things , the Cannonading of a Real Battle is Awful beyond description and to have one 's friends walk out of one 's Drawing room into Action … is a sensation beyond description . |
| 28 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 29 | Now this spread of a uniform facies is remarkable enough , but it must also be remembered that chalk is a very unusual sediment : an extremely pure coccolith limestone which is almost unique in the stratigraphical column . |
| 30 | A gems expert said Commander Tim Laurence 's choice of a Victorian-style ring was perfect . |