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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I WATCHED in horror as a huge black bear nosed about in the handlebar baskets of my bike yards away . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The accord made provision for a new prime minister and a " national consensus Cabinet " to negotiate with the OAS for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | provision for a free initial half-hour interview with a solicitor , available irrespective of means . |
| 19 | There is still no provision for a national toxic wastes dump . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | According to some experts , this constitutes proof that the Chinese authorities recognise Islam as a powerful religious force within modern China and may be an attempt to allow Muslims to play a part as a nominally autonomous group within the country . |
| 23 | Fair did not seem to Martha to be a colour at all , merely an excuse for a hard old woman to persecute a child . |
| 24 | If it 's not practical to visit your debtor and he has promised a cheque for a definite future date try , ‘ Fine . |
| 25 | Or else paint the surface of ordinary paper with a coat or two of eggshell or gloss polyurethane for a practical protective finish . |
| 26 | postmodernism is less liberating for some social groups than for others — though there is a point to be made here about the extremely close links between postmodernism as a general theoretical superstructure and camp as a specific homosexual practice . |
| 27 | In presenting a geomorphological approach to glaciers and landscape Sugden and John ( 1976 ) utilize a simple systems approach as a vehicle for the explanation of complicated ideas because they believe ‘ in the value of a systems framework as a powerful explanatory tool ’ . |
| 28 | The presence of such individuals in Caedwalla 's entourage confirms the Gewissian prince as a significant political figure . |
| 29 | Small change for a great two-way favour Input / Nigel Fountain . |
| 30 | As a production of the Ministry of Town Planning much of its message clearly trespassed on the domain of the Ministry of Transport , so that it was scarcely surprising that some intractable transport problems were glossed over in the euphoria for a brave new world . |