Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody .
2 In relation to , for example , technological systems , design posits a means of overcoming control problems since it posits a means of knowing-practice which incorporates the technical as a moment and which can itself thus internally incorporate social requirements ( no other mode of knowledge practice can do this ) .
3 Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed .
4 Take the enclosed to a printing or duplicating Agency and arrange for at least 9 copies to be made .
5 and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one
6 The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so .
7 A teacher has to be conscious of the different between an error and a slip .
8 Immobilise the joint for a while and keep the arm in a sling . ’
9 All these bits are changed quite simply in the 44 with a spanner and locking pin , while the smaller 88 uses a C-spanner and fingers .
10 I had n't been to the mere for a week or two so did n't really know if the bream would still be moving or not .
11 Our first midweek fixture was on a Thursday , the second on a Wednesday and the third on a Tuesday .
12 Initially , Aegon will find the additional in a way that will give them a 50 per cent stake in the non-with-profits business .
13 John Tate , managing director of consultancy Tate Bramald Ltd says : ‘ It is safest to assume the worst of a package until you have confirmed for yourself that it does what it claims to . ’
14 There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious .
15 Joan is the younger by a year but , being of similar height and appearance , the girls are as twins .
16 I know that as the younger by a year or two I looked up to Andrew ; after all I was an inexperienced young man from a small prairie town , while Andrew had been to Europe !
17 And , although he was halted on the line , Cambridge retained possession , Flood sending Richard Batstone hurtling in on the left for a try that Davies converted .
18 Although open lines of communication are important , they should not be used by the superior to command the subordinate in a matter where authority has been delegated to the subordinate .
19 As a general principle the earlier the better for an Intervention because less damage will have been caused by the disease and the denial system will be less entrenched .
20 From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself .
21 Government response to the crisis has hit the poor in a way that has become all too familiar in the Third World .
22 What I have tried to do in the body of this paper is to further the understanding of postmodern culture in consideration of the latter as a figural and de-differentiated mode of signification .
23 The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance .
24 So , to sum up the main points so far : the scriptible as a value and the commentary as a form of reading both imply an approach which is largely incompatible with the chief principles of classical structuralism .
25 The more of a villain or a lout Tommaso Talvi appeared to others , the sweeter she found her task of siding with him , of divining the exceptional qualities in him , of standing by his side .
26 It seems all the more of a waste if those long , cold hours only result in stale fish .
27 India 's fortunes changed dramatically as they won the next two Tests by large margins ; the third by 222 runs ( Chandrasekhar distinguishing himself with 6 for 52 in each innings with the ball and 0 in each innings with the bat ) , and the fourth by an innings and two runs .
28 And erm , but they decided that as she had n't drawn a horse in the National , she 'd got the n she was the nearest to a winner that they could
29 Deciding which manuals to supply was just the first of a chain or decisions .
30 The following two quotes , the first from a teacher and the second from a physiotherapist , are illustrative :
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