Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children are split into groups of 16 , each named after a fictional character such as Mickey Mouse . |
| 2 | After a hot mess-tin full of oxtail soup , I was more than ready to get into any old slit trench to have some desperately needed sleep . |
| 3 | Former Hawarden member Seve Giardina now at Berkhampstead led the field going into the final round but fell away badly after a triple bogey six at the par 3 eighth . |
| 4 | A UNCP press release said that the leaders of the Marxist-Leninist and Marxist factions , after several days of intense negotiations , had decided to merge " in accordance with the aspirations of the people " and that the new party expected to be able to form a government after a general election due by May 1991 . |
| 5 | The intensity of reaction is normally very much less in these cases than after a severe loss such as bereavement but , even so , people can be surprised by their lethargy , sadness , even depression and bursts of irritation , which disturb what was expected to be so happy . |
| 6 | Well , where disability commences within six months of returning to work after a previous claim due to the same or related causes in which case no deferred period will apply , and so therefore your right answer is B folks . |
| 7 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 8 | The first chief justice was John Jay , who resigned after a short time due to his belief that the job would never amount to anything . |
| 9 | The details of the liberal programme ( attack on regional , ecclesiastical , and aristocratic privilege , guilds , and the Mesta ) were inherited from regalists and political economists , from the servants of Charles III who had attacked the privileged in the interests of a modernized monarchy unencumbered with private jurisdictions . |
| 10 | We can use the same approach to examine the self-representation of a particular ruler , taking again the example of a Roman emperor such as Augustus ( 31BC-AD 14 ) or Nero ( AD54-68 ) . |
| 11 | Digital Equipment Corp says it will lay off up to 60 employees at its Asian headquarters in Hong Kong as part of a regional restructuring unconnected with its first quarter loss . |
| 12 | In the young fetus , the high mitotic index obviates the use of a mitotic arrestant such as Colcemid ( Sigma ) or Velbe ( Lilly ) , but if the mitotic index is low , as in older specimens , or if large numbers of mitotic cells are required , mitotic arrest can be used to advantage . |
| 13 | Is the Prime Ministers ' vision of a classless society possible with the monarchy in place ? |
| 14 | That means using magnets made of a superconducting material such as niobium-titanium alloy . |
| 15 | Accurate and true representation is an important prerequisite governing potential worth of a visual aid such as this . |
| 16 | Further , because the N A Y was based on grain as a standard , this encouraged a switch to cash crops which were of a higher value relative to grain . |
| 17 | For the neutralisation of a strong acid such as hydrochloric acid , HCl(aq) , and a strong alkali such as sodium hydroxide , NaOH(aq) , the standard molar enthalpy of neutralisation is almost invariably -57.1 kJ mol-1 . |
| 18 | However , it is the presence , ( on two occasions in mosaic 10 ) , of a sixteen-petalled flower comparable to those which occupy the central squares of mosaic 7 and North Hill , mosaic C , which is most significant . |
| 19 | Among the antique items there are some charming floral objects by Faberge , a cracking Canaletto of St Mark 's and a delightful and most unusual polychrome bust of a grinning Henry VIII as a boy . |
| 20 | ‘ In truth , none in cases of a violent death such as this . ’ |
| 21 | He also makes a distinction between the profit-making nature of a private organization such as a firm and the non-profit-making activity of public sector organizations like bureaucracies . |
| 22 | So for example , the assignment of the referent of a personal pronoun such as ’ I ’ or ’ you ’ depends on who is speaking ( i.e. the user ) , and as such remains within the domain of pragmatics . |
| 23 | If you prefer a manager who is part of a financial group such as Granville Investment Management ( 071–488 1212 ) , part of the merchant bank , you will again have a tailor-made investment plan . |
| 24 | Cuckney does not believe that the qualities needed to be an effective chairman of a financial institution such as 3i ( Investors in Industry ) are that different to those required to oversee a manufacturing company . |
| 25 | John Wright remarked to me that he met some strange friends through John who , while still a teenager , was obviously finding friends of a congenial bohemianism akin to his own . |
| 26 | In a great many social systems the only fully legitimate marriages are those in which the bride and bridegroom are not only already kin but kin of a specific category such as , say , that which includes the relationship mother 's brother 's daughter/father 's sister 's son . |
| 27 | Harappan sites have yielded gold objects mainly in the form of personal trinkets in the context of a metallurgical industry distinct from that of Sumer . |
| 28 | He now became premier of a broad-based Cabinet responsible to the president : virtually a return to 1945 . |
| 29 | Gascony was not a colony in the accepted sense of a conquered territory subject to foreign domination and laws , and exploited by a foreign power . |
| 30 | But after that we offer compensation to cover , for example , loss of profits , additional expenses , loss of market and loss of a similar nature consequent upon loss , damage or late delivery . |