Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The idealism which inspired this Act of Parliament was eloquently expressed in the House of Commons by Alfred Morris , MP for Manchester , Wythenshawe who had originally introduced this measure as a Private Member 's Bill : If we could bequeath one precious gift to posterity , I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for the chronically sick and disabled ; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere ; where needs come before means ; where if years can not be added to their lives , at least life can be added to their years ; … where the disabled have a fundamental right to participate in industry and society according to ability ; where socially preventable distress is unknown ; and where none has cause to be ill at ease because of disability .
2 Er I think our position is that we provide as you know , air defence through a layered system er of air defence aircraft and missiles and the simple truth is that in the light of the changes in the strategic er setting , particularly er as it affects U K air defence , we have decided that the provision of a medium defensive layer , that is the M sound system to which you refer , is not a high priority at the moment and the programme is therefore being postponed and I have to emphasise it 's not been abandoned .
3 Is there a link between a racing driver 's haircut and his track record ?
4 Some additional support for a simple x per cent rule for the money supply is provided by the analysis explained earlier about the volatility of aggregate demand .
5 Labour contender Ashok Kumar has expressed support for a junior doctors ' campaign for shorter working hours .
6 However , a faster alignment through a new King 's Cross station remains a possible alternative in spite of the opposition of the Treasury , which prefers a cheaper but roundabout line into St Pancras .
7 Some compensation for these flops was provided by Carol Reed 's The Fallen Idol ( 1947 ) , an adaptation of Graham Green 's short story about a young boy 's loss of innocence , and Anthony Asquith 's The Winslow Boy ( 1948 ) , an adapted stage-play about the struggles of a naval cadet 's father to prove his son 's innocence of theft .
8 Lovers of good beer — well deserved of course after a hard day 's exercise — wo n't have to go far for a fine pint .
9 He needed their support after a hard day 's work in often uncomfortable conditions .
10 I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service .
11 This was based on the antics of a crew chief John C Ford — Jack to his friends — who had some knuckled dentistry and lost a tooth during a bar-room brawl en route to England .
12 During the same era of the early sixties , TV tough guy , Lewis Collins was earning a living as a junior ladies ' hairdresser at Andre Bernard 's salon in Liverpool .
13 The peeled-off clothes lie in a tumbled pile , and — at a velocity far greater than the usual speed of a naked mortal 's shy and shivering run — I convey her into the water , and out of the shallows .
14 This distribution of p53 gene mutation between adenomas and carcinomas mirrors that of chromosome 17p deletion , believed to signal loss of a wild type p53 allele .
15 There could hardly be a stronger contrast between this and the picture RIGHT which shows a Kirlian photograph of a healthy person 's fingertip .
16 On the high mantel shelf above what had once been the fireplace was a black and white photograph of a young man 's head .
17 THE FUTURE of a controversial chemist 's shop in Darlington is still in the balance .
18 Even so , he had survived some narrow escapes ; always the fault of a Rotten Fellow 's hopeless driving .
19 LEGA emphasised the need for an objective appraisal of a prospective co-operative 's commercial prospects : and was critical of the attempt made on Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn 's insistence when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , to rescue the Scottish Daily News , Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering Ltd ( KME ) , and Meriden ; and to make the co-operative form the instrument of rescue .
20 She had gone to bed early thinking of the luxury of a long night 's rest but woke from sleep unwell .
21 and a piece of a green railing rai , you know , if it was railed all round .
22 Most of the other searchlights were out now , and only the fires lit the quays and the gaunt dockside warehouses that echoed to the sharp burst of a tommy-gun 's fire and the sharper answering rent of a German Schmeisser 's more rapid fire .
23 Car-makers are pessimistic about an upturn this year and are expressing concern about the effect of a Labour government 's economic policy on the industry .
24 Such decisions to grant State aid can be taken in the light of a national government 's overall policy towards internal competition , and therefore need not conflict with the aims of its national competition policy .
25 Negotiations between the government and the opposition , which disputed the November presidential election results [ see p. 39180 ] , failed after the government refused to concede the principal demand — the completion of a new voters ' register .
26 Faded prayer flags fluttered above the smoke — blackened bamboo roof of a Tibetan refugee 's hut .
27 The Harewood House charity auction , hosted by the Queen 's cousin the Earl of Harewood , is in aid of a new children 's day hospital in Leeds .
28 Well the objective was the maintenance of a friendly regime er in a country which had become part of the American sphere of influence .
29 Well the objective was the maintenance of a friendly regime er in a country which had become part of the American sphere of influence .
30 He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues .
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