Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first-ever story for a national magazine was about another of my seminal Ali experiences — a sparring session I 'd had with the Champ in 1975 , when , because of his influence , I was trying to make a living as a kickboxer . |
| 2 | Been my major struggle for a long time now . |
| 3 | The negotiations in my flat were largely conducted on the basis that the doctor delegates met in my dining-room , with Barbara and her colleagues — usually David Owen , Patrick Nairne and young Mr Straw — in my sitting-room , and I would occasionally take one or more from each delegation into my small study for a private talk . |
| 4 | My other idea for a healthy Ireland , an Irish king , had been proved yet another alien English notion , for pre-Ascendancy Ireland boasted not one but many kings . |
| 5 | I 'M normally very cautious about participating in moral crusades , especially when they are orchestrated by newspapers in their eternal quest for a good story that will run and run . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that Moscow has pronounced its strong support for a nuclear-free Southeast Asia . |
| 7 | He was also largely responsible for rewriting Davis 's Handbook of Chemical Engineering in its two-volume format for a second edition . |
| 8 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 9 | Nikola Koljevic , their deputy leader , says Serbs will go back to their old demand for a Bosnian confederation of independent Serb , Muslim and Croat states . |
| 10 | They were ( like Tawney and Webb before them ) clear about the injustices and the distortions in the contemporary system , but what kind of programme could be derived from their aching nostalgia for a working-class world that was slipping away ? |
| 11 | The Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 12 | THE Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 13 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 14 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 15 | Melissa trawled her mental lexicon for a French equivalent of ‘ gut reaction ’ , failed to find one , and finished rather tamely with , ‘ a mother 's instinct . ’ |
| 16 | The spokesman said the union had demanded that Mrs Falconer be retained on her present salary for a further two and half years with early retirement on an enhanced pension at 50 . |
| 17 | No names appear on BSDI 's papers of incorporation except the company 's nominal president Rick Adams who was described to Unigram last week by Donnalyn Frey , BSDI 's spokesman , as merely a figurehead , soon to be replaced when BSDI completes its current search for a chief executive . |
| 18 | The normally staid Independent cleared its front page for a graphic , reminiscent of a medieval woodcut , depicting all stages in the evolution of the Cosmos , while the Sun announced that ‘ We Find the Secret of the Creation ’ and showed a mysterious egg-shaped blob with the caption ‘ AMAZING … the universe with ripples shown in the patchy areas ’ , presumably in case the readers thought they were patches in the rippled areas . |
| 19 | Inmarsat needs to spend millions to adapt its mainly-American satellite for a Russian launch , but hopes to save $10m on the cost in the West . |
| 20 | An investor who needs to hold a particular asset in his portfolio for trading purposes may wish to exchange some of its expected return for a reduced variance in its return . |
| 21 | The evening class had been Amanda 's way of escaping her boring husband for a few hours . |
| 22 | We could not hear its lovely song for a vociferous skylark ( with long tails was trilling directly overhead . |
| 23 | Charles Henstock sat beside his old friend for a short time , his lips moving in prayer . |
| 24 | In his youth he seemed to he involved with many sports and I have seen evidence of his playing goalkeeper for a select Scottish hockey team — on roller-skates . |
| 25 | This is in fact a version of the familiar conservative ‘ critique of mass culture ’ , strongly marked by the influence of F.R. Leavis , G.K. Chesterton and McLuhan 's own Catholicism , and by his constant search for a reborn ‘ organic wholeness ’ of spirit . |
| 26 | Dawson rolled his left hand for a boogie-woogie riff and paddled an arpeggio with the right . |
| 27 | He brought her close against him , his arms enfolding her slenderness against the hardness of his powerful body for a long quiet moment before he slid his hand beneath her chin and lifted her face to his . |
| 28 | MIDDLESBROUGH manager Lennie Lawrence will rely on his current squad for a final Second Division promotion push . |
| 29 | As his legal fight for a second inquest goes on , Mr Ferrante remembers the son he believes should still be alive today . |
| 30 | It is no secret that Forster has not been popular , his vigorous preference for a radical brand of abstract cultural history being considered almost hostile to the Museum 's more object-based aims . |