Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 2 | The Madeleine Newton Fund for Alternative Cancer Research and Treatment is named after a primary school teacher who died of breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 32 . |
| 3 | The Institute itself has recently reopened after a five year refurbishment which included the installation of a new metal and glass roof and the conversion of the former tapestry gallery into one suitable for displaying pictures . |
| 4 | A second reason why bulls have taken heart is that , after a two-year IMF programme which ended in March , the government is now going for growth . |
| 5 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 6 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 7 | AN outraged couple are writing to the Prime Minister after a teenage drink driver who wrecked their £9,000 dream car was fined just £22 . |
| 8 | After an initial normalisation procedure which standardised the data , the data was segmented and coded to produce possible letters and letter strings . |
| 9 | Against this background , a local jury decided on May 23rd to acquit a butcher , Rodney Peairs , of the murder of a Japanese exchange student who knocked on his door by mistake last year , looking for a Halloween party . |
| 10 | One of 35 Britons on the plane , Brian was part of a six person group who 'd planned a trek to Tharpu Chuli . |
| 11 | I enclose a photograph of a Roman bronze coin which still has traces of the silver wash on it . |
| 12 | However , as part of a pan-European transport network it could have a major effect by breaking down to the deterrents to trade imposed by national frontiers . |
| 13 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 14 | Mr Hunter went on to reveal the findings of a recent opinion poll he had conducted amongst NALGO 's membership in the North Western and North Wales region . |
| 15 | Tanabe was the author of a recent policy review which was designed to steer the party away from its traditional position of pacifism ( including opposition to the country 's Self Defence Force on the grounds that its existence was unconstitutional ) and international neutrality . |
| 16 | The researchers discovered the existence of a strong group culture which enforced an output norm . |
| 17 | The Santa Cruz Operation Inc is sidling up even closer to Compaq Computer Corp , following the signing of a worldwide OEM agreement which will see Compaq putting all SCO products through its marketing channels for the first time . |
| 18 | However , Nkrumah 's own proposals for an independence constitution were vetoed in favour of a Colonial Office draft which imposed limitations on Ministerial authority in the new Ghana . |
| 19 | The data dictionary — being developed using SNI 's Entity Relationship Model ( UX No 409 ) — will form the basis of a planned Informix repository which is at least a year out and does n't have a target interface environment yet . |
| 20 | They arrived at the bottom of a winding cliff path which seemed to lead to the fortress and the forest on the land above to the open land where a strange , timeless battle was being fought beneath the dusk sky . |
| 21 | ‘ In the first two years of a Liberal Democrat government we would produce 600,000 jobs , 400,000 in the first year and 200,000 in the second . |
| 22 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |
| 23 | The new governor of Rhode Island closed more than half the state 's banks following the collapse of a private insurance fund which guarantees deposits at 45 banks not insured by the federal government . |
| 24 | Francis Mulhern has argued that Scrutiny developed and propagated for the profession of English studies an ideological framework suited to the maintenance of a talent-governed career structure which eventually came to dominate the profession as a whole . |
| 25 | The defendants to proceedings begun in New York by the families and personal representatives of persons killed in an air crash in Scotland in 1988 applied for an order under the Act of 1975 for the examination of a retired Crown servant who during his period of employment as a senior forensic scientist had conducted an investigation into the crash . |
| 26 | As a quick reference guide to give you an indication of how many glasses of a lower alcohol product you can drink for every glass of a standard alcohol product below is a table which shows drinks which have the same alcohol content . |
| 27 | In that context I have had to look at the definition of a specific issue order which is contained in section 8(1) of the Act and I know , from talking to those who have been concerned with this Act and are familiar with it , that they have no doubt at all as to what that definition means . |
| 28 | The exchange may on occasion wish to maintain that it was not previously aware of a specific floor practice which it now considers undesirable . |
| 29 | The strict approach , whereby in construing the effect of a purported exclusion clause everything was construed against the party in whose favour a term was included in the contract , the contra preferentem rule , has been mitigated through statutory intervention . |
| 30 | It had been reported earlier that Kim had offered to resign in order to facilitate the creation of a broad-based opposition grouping which would be capable of defeating the DLP at the 1992 presidential and legislative elections . |