Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether they learn their home stream 's distinctive smell during a discrete sensitive period is undecided . |
| 2 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 3 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 4 | The acknowledged success by all participants in the Bedfordshire scheme led in 1930 to the Carnegie Trust offering to continue the £500 annual grant for a further three-year period to finance a tutor-organiser appointment in another rural area in the District . |
| 5 | The final period of the Kettering scheme came when in 1938 the Cassell Trustees agreed to renew their grant for a further two years on a reducing scale with a concluding sum of £50 in 1940 to extinguish their support . |
| 6 | Lenin clashed with the most intransigent Bolsheviks , led by the philosopher A.A. Bogdanov , who were hostile to even minimal use of such legal outlets as Duma representation and favoured concentration upon preparation for a new armed uprising . |
| 7 | A meeting between Israel , Egypt and the United States to have been held in preparation for a possible Israeli-Palestinian dialogue was apparently postponed after the attack . |
| 8 | Williams continued to gather public support throughout 1954 , ( also the year that Learie Constantine returned after 30 years in England ) , and it seems that he was now consolidating his position in preparation for a decisive political move , but while he was still involved with the Caribbean Commission in an apolitical capacity , this move would be put on hold . |
| 9 | Dr Frederica Perera , professor of public health at Columbia University and senior scientist for a prominent environmental group , says the government is also playing down in vitro tests of chemicals in cell cultures . |
| 10 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 11 | Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense . |
| 12 | The daughters of a man who died after breathing asbestos dust are suing his employers British Rail for a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 13 | The appointee would not usurp the roles of the Institute president and secretary , it says , ‘ but should provide the opportunity for a higher public profile , the opportunity to become recognised as as the spokesman for the Institute , and the driving force in achieving the Institute 's longer term goals . ’ |
| 14 | The opportunity for a serious educational intervention was missed : a sad contrast to the rapid organisation of adult education lectures by Yorkshire WEA and Nottingham University during the 1926 miners ' lockout , especially in the light of the College 's unambiguous commitment to a working-class adult education that is independent and emancipatory , that analyses and seeks to explain the structures of inequality and power that operate in British society and elsewhere . |
| 15 | The research being undertaken is a unique opportunity for a detailed cross-national comparison of the contracting systems in the UK and France through a controlled pair of case studies of construction projects . |
| 16 | Emerson got a carbon copy of his first try after a swift counter attack , Stevens , came across from his wing into the centre to slice through the defence for a fine individual score , and left winger Paul McAteer raced in from 20 metres . |
| 17 | I WATCHED in horror as a huge black bear nosed about in the handlebar baskets of my bike yards away . |
| 18 | Tyne Tunnel Trading Estates Ltd. were seeking planning permission for a 360 000 sq . |
| 19 | Sir , — We write in reply to an article detailing East Hampshire District Council 's comments following our successful appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a private gipsy site for one family in Passfield . |
| 20 | He was renominated and confirmed by referendum for a further six-year term in October 1987 . |
| 21 | We have made it clear that we see no case for a further massive increase in the structural funds . |
| 22 | There has been much speculation since the introduction of s.62 of the FSA 1986 concerning the potency of the provision as a statutory civil law remedy for insider dealing . |
| 23 | The Government have met much of the anxiety of Opposition Members through the provision for a possible further education funding council to be established at a later date . |
| 24 | The accord made provision for a new prime minister and a " national consensus Cabinet " to negotiate with the OAS for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 25 | These included provision for a minimum standard VAT rate of 15 per cent across the EC until the end of 1996 and a two-tier system of excise duty on spirits . |
| 26 | The agreement ( i ) conferred land rights on ethnic Indians living in the eastern Amazonian department of Beni , covering the Isiboro Sécure el Iviato National Park and 170,000 hectares of the central forest of Chimanes ; ( ii ) established that a multiparty commission would be set up , composed of government and indigenous Indian representatives and others from " respectable institutions " , to draft a new Law for Indigenous Indians of the East and Amazonia ; ( iii ) established that timber merchants in the central Chimanes forest had to end their operations by Oct. 31 , 1990 , when contracts to cut timber would not be renewed ; and ( iv ) made provision for a further multiparty commission to be set up to police the agreement . |
| 27 | provision for a free initial half-hour interview with a solicitor , available irrespective of means . |
| 28 | There is still no provision for a national toxic wastes dump . |
| 29 | Such a theory predicts that an increase in advantage for a particular visual hemifield should be accompanied by an equivalent decrease in performance for the other hemifield , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Hellige and Cox , 1976 ) . |
| 30 | But their case has been the catalyst for a bitter political row , raising fundamental questions about society 's ability to deal adequately with racial violence . |