Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to this all the industrial noise merchants who include a certain amount of Techno in their repertoire , and the mirror becomes more cloudy . |
| 2 | The government 's pursuit of mass home ownership , and its liberalisation of controls over private sector development , have encouraged a building boom which represents a serious threat to the countryside . |
| 3 | a popular serif typeface used in magazines and books for text setting which has a large x-height and an open appearance . |
| 4 | With recent advances in technology , even personal computers now have much increased memory capacity , so a lexical look-up technique which uses a large vocabulary ( say , anything over 20,000 words ) is now feasible . |
| 5 | Looking first at the traces for the insert ( TA ) 10 ( Figures 1a and 2a ) it can be seen that there are nine cleavage products which have a similar intensity to that at the sequence CGC on the 5'-side ( above ) of the insert and which are about twice as strong as that at the AGC site . |
| 6 | Neighbourhood Energy Action is a national charity and has helped to promote over 450 Community Insulation Projects which provide a low cost draughtproofing service to pensioners and others on low incomes . |
| 7 | Glasgow are hoping for 2,000 visitors a day and are charging a comparatively modest £3.50 full entry tariff which includes a high-tech Walkman-type audio tour . |
| 8 | The tree was 360mm in diameter and to enable me to get the correct clearance around the tree and the seat width I drew a rough development on the patio with chalk . |
| 9 | Highton Highton I came a nice part . |
| 10 | We see an awful lot of people have got a tremendous investment in traditional character cell terminals and by a character cell terminal I mean a dumb terminal of twenty four lines of eighty characters . |
| 11 | JUST before Budget Day we told the story of the Brentford Football Club fan who occupies a senior post at the Treasury and we expected a giveaway Budget if Brentford were leading the Third Division table at the time . |
| 12 | Major mobile invertebrate predators are to be found in the phylum crustacea which includes crabs and shrimps and in the phylum mollusca which includes a wide range of predators from octopi and squid down to tiny nudibranchs . |
| 13 | Lastly , windblown sand has accumulated up to a height of 150 metres , where rock-cored hills with gentle slopes lie close to beach or eroding dune areas which furnish a steady supply of sand . |
| 14 | He said ‘ When you get a lawyer who handles the legal work of investment bankers you get a key member of the power elite ’ ( for more details of Mills 's views on elites see pp 138–9 ) . |
| 15 | The main problem is that they are then required to undergo training in paramilitary riot control at Hounslow under the tuition of superfit instructors who convey a militaristic image . |
| 16 | The first , as mentioned in the previous chapter , was continuous feedback from the programme monitors who visited a random 5% of the households one month after the visits of the Oral Replacement Workers . |
| 17 | meet Strawberry and the Sensations , the rock group which receives a threatening message on the last night of its concert tour |
| 18 | To do justice to the complexities Or the situation , the universities have assembled a research team which represents a wide range of social and environmental sciences . |
| 19 | The duo fronted Saturday night 's Screen One programme Ghostwatch which featured a fictional investigation into Britain 's ‘ most haunted house ’ . |
| 20 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 21 | This should preferably be a fairly recent period of relative stability : since the base period is acting as a point of reference , it would be inappropriate to choose a period in which the price level was affected by any abnormal events , such as a war or a long dock strike which created a serious shortage of imported goods . |
| 22 | It is clear that although the long-term factors which favoured the professionalisation of British management and the acceptance of using outside consultants helped to prepare the ground for the spread of headhunting , the leading executive search firms themselves played a vital part in creating this new business out of nowhere . |
| 23 | In the wind orchestra they form a useful group , backing up the horns in the heart of the band and sometimes taking solo parts . |
| 24 | A pro knows within a few yards how far he can hit the ball with each club — unlike the club golfer who has a wide variation from day to day , and even from hole to hole . |
| 25 | Nowell and Penny recommend the Angel in Stoke-by-Nayland which they say has become a favourite with visitors , and the Terrace Restaurant which provides a sophisticated atmosphere . |
| 26 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 27 | But these comments need to be viewed in conjunction with a new MIND report which paints a different picture , further asserting that whatever turns up in the community is often too little , too late . |
| 28 | The 1976 Open Blow-Football Tournament , won by a crack Whaddon WI team , springs to mind , as does the 1974 Christmas jumble sale which received a four-star review in the Oxfam magazine . |
| 29 | Suddenly he was apprehended by an irate Scout master who took a dim view of being woken at such an hour . |
| 30 | At Stockwell Manor School we meet a certain amount of competition for the working areas and sometimes need to round-up hordes of energetic youngsters who have invaded the gym or perhaps the quiet concentration of a theory lesson is assailed by a steel band at full volume . |