Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide . |
| 2 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
| 3 | Thunder detonated like an underground bomb . |
| 4 | They drove down to Causeway Bay where his junk was waiting , and were taken out to it in a sampan owned by an ancient Chinese in a lampshade hat . |
| 5 | Kate Bush stood defiantly before them , her hair frozen in an imaginary breeze , curling in the air like the deadly locks of a Gorgon . |
| 6 | Retrovirus virions consist of a capsid surrounded by an outer envelope , and within the capsid lies the nucleocapsid . |
| 7 | Yet , even if all of this causes great uncertainty among scientists , it is still a reasonable prediction that a decade ahead will see both environmental monitoring and prediction treated as an everyday need and activity in major organizations . |
| 8 | And the throne of the country was occupied by a puppet-king regarded as an iniquitous usurper . |
| 9 | Light is also obedient to this effect so that light received from an approaching body has a blue shift and from a receding body a red shift . |
| 10 | It would not call into question — indeed it would confirm — the right to govern of any one party which could claim a mandate authenticated by an absolute majority of the popular vote . |
| 11 | But instead of coal or logs , most of use are recreating those dancing flames by piping gas through ceramic ‘ logs ’ or ‘ coals ’ , or faking that warm glow with a flickering red light hidden under an electric element . |
| 12 | Thus illegitimacy is no longer taken into consideration in determining the rights of succession of an illegitimate person , or the rights of succession to his estate , or the rights of succession traced through an illegitimate relationship . |
| 13 | Any programme targeted on an explicit need can be justified if it is followed through with adequate resources . |
| 14 | The Third Department recommended in an official memorandum of 1861 that the government strive " to retain in its own hands the standard of the progressive movement which it itself has started " . |
| 15 | Peat-stained hands , grace before the meal intoned in Gaelic , the taste of tea brewed over an open peat fire , and the smell of heather borne on a keen sea breeze . |
| 16 | I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline . |
| 17 | Dora 's mouth compressed into an aggressive wedge . |
| 18 | Louis Terrenoire , the RPF 's general secretary in this era , saw de Gaulle as a tragic figure caught in an intolerable dilemma : " should I remain the man of History … and withdraw ? |
| 19 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 20 | On 6 October the Scottish Sunday Mail revealed in an excellent piece of investigative journalism that , in a draft letter to the Secretary of State for Energy , the Secretary of State for Scotland had made it clear that he would not object to fuel from an Iraqi nuclear reactor , damaged during the Gulf war , being sent to Dounreay for reprocessing . |
| 21 | It is also important not to remain tied to the investment made in an old system . |
| 22 | → DI stands for ‘ direct inject ’ , a term applied to an electronic unit which provides a method of hooking up a variety of instruments and amplifiers to a mixing desk . |
| 23 | His mouth twisted into an angry line as he snarled , ‘ Women are the last commodity I need in my life . ’ |
| 24 | Her mouth shaped into an astonished circle as she slowly studied him again . |
| 25 | The recommendation made by an external evaluation team to one of BRAC 's main sponsors to continue funding the programme was also an encouraging sign . |
| 26 | His mouth curved into an ironic smile . |
| 27 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 28 | Mr Curtin had been suspended from practice for three months in 1991 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the condition imposed by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau when Mr Curtin applied for renewal of his practising certificate was that of practising only in approved employment , as opposed to in approved partnership , which had been the condition applicable to Mr Curtin 's certificate prior to his suspension from practice . |
| 29 | Six people died on May 26 in the north-western town of Bamenda at a demonstration organized by an illegal opposition group , the newly founded Social Democratic Front ( SDF ) , one of whose leaders was the dissident writer Albert Mukong . |
| 30 | Narrow streets lead to a quaint bridge over the River Nartuby and a tiny square with a pretty little baroque mairie and a pizzeria with its terrace built round an antique fountain . |