Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union des populations camerounaises ( UPC — Union of Cameroonian Peoples , operating latterly as a Paris-based clandestine organization , having been banned since 1960 ; it was held responsible for unrest in the 1960s and was regarded as communist-led ) . |
| 2 | We will make good use of agency flexibilities in meeting our targets , and deliver programmes and services cost-effectively through a unified local office network . |
| 3 | We will make good use of agency flexibilities in meeting our targets , and deliver programmes and services cost-effectively through a unified local office network . |
| 4 | Harry Dodson and his wife are well versed in the language of flowers , and have made wedding bouquets professionally for a good long time : they made the beautiful posies for the Victorian wedding in the forthcoming television series The Victorian Flower Garden . |
| 5 | It had seemed perfectly all right for a working married couple , but now they were to be invaded . |
| 6 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 7 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 8 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 9 | John Wayne may be fresh-faced as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach ( 1939 ) but , a scant decade later , he was prematurely playing old men in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( 1948 ) , much more convincingly that he would 20 years later on as a real old man in the indulgent True Grit ( 1967 ) . |
| 10 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 11 | If wide coverage is sought ( eg for a new Do-it-Yourself product or a new consumer banking service ) , then a television advertisement put out at a peak viewing time would be the most effective . |
| 12 | Our first encounter with ‘ The way through the Fish ’ , a modern classic of the Marmalada South Face in the Italian Dolomites had ended with us well beaten and rather incomprehendingly abseiling down during a perfect alpine evening . |
| 13 | The Bournemouth International Centre is not really extensive or flexible enough for a modern Conservative Party Conference . |
| 14 | Their exports were not always spectacular but their industries produced enough for a growing domestic market . |
| 15 | I bet Stuart sees her basically as a good little shopper . |
| 16 | When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 , he did so through a normal constitutional process , and as leader of the party with the largest single share of the popular vote in elections for the Reichstag . |
| 17 | Although the aim of the Meditations was to stimulate an emotional response to the humanity of Christ in an act of affective piety , this was closely tied to a theological understanding that only through a loving penitential identification with His suffering could man also experience the transfiguring reality of the power of His Resurrection and life . |
| 18 | ‘ My housekeeper will know where the first-aid equipment is , ’ he clipped , and piloted her through a passageway , and in through a solid wooden door . |
| 19 | ‘ Only for a tiny tiny second because then I 'm dashing off to work . ’ |
| 20 | Hick contributed a pleasant cameo , notable not only for a superb back-foot force through the covers but also for his continued struggles against the short ball , and a debatable lbw decision which ended his stay . |
| 21 | Past efforts have largely been concentrated on the study of experimental catchments but most studies are limited to analyses of effects on a single component of the hydrologic cycle , such as the effect of urbanization on flood peaks , or are relevant only for a particular geographical setting . |
| 22 | ‘ Why do n't you just get out of this car and come inside for a long cool drink and a long cool swim and admit defeat ? ’ |
| 23 | obviously for a pre-shaped molecular key . |
| 24 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 25 | Roosevelt and his advisers saw Huey Long as a serious political threat , whose support for a third-party candidate in 1936 might split the Democratic vote . |
| 26 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 27 | Frank Tate will be well known to you all , not only as a fine bass player , but as the architect of many special groups that have appeared in the Guinness Spot . |
| 28 | The nearest sandy beach is only about a ten minute walk from the Venus and the West End of San Antonio is about 15 minutes away . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ said Cameron , wishing that James would think harder and spoil less for a mere sporting occasion . |
| 30 | A report on September 29 stated Graeme Souness deserted Liverpool FC and allowed his players to fly to Cyprus alone for a key European Cup match in order to accompany his girlfriend , Karen Levy , to her matrimonial court hearing . |