Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 7 o'clock the office bearers , a number of the brethren and their lady friends sat down to a sumptuous repast in a granary tastefully decorated with evergreen and flags and after a long toast list the tables were removed for dancing . |
| 2 | But after a four month lay-off the people who have to open them can get rather out of practice , so they 've been sharpening their skills against each other . |
| 3 | Affairs of the heart are not unknown to travel agents in the 1990s either : in the middle of a recent travel consultation a young man proposed to his girlfriend and the travel consultant was asked to arrange the wedding in Mauritius . |
| 4 | After admitting to an extramarital affair with the niece of a former Cabinet minister the Rev. Allan Boesak , President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches , on July 25 resigned as minister of his local church , outside Cape Town , and as Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church . |
| 5 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 6 | In the ornate portal of a mansion-block department store an old man with buttoned overcoat and brown burnished shoes stood talking at the rain . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Roosevelt would give two agents several hundred thousand dollars out of a substantial slush fund the CIA had established in Teheran . |
| 8 | In the event of a future oil shortage the LDCs were to receive priority supplies to meet basic economic needs . |
| 9 | If an electron is removed from a p-orbital of a rare gas atom the interaction of the electron spin angular momentum ( quantum number s ) with the orbital angular momentum ( quantum number l ) generates two possible states for the ion , depending on whether the angular momenta add or subtract . |
| 10 | Not only that , but all regions will have a direct say in European affairs at E C level , thanks to the creation of a new community institution the Committee of the Regions . |
| 11 | Until that fatal weakness is overcome , I fear that the understandably-depressed Dr David Marsh will continue to find chairmanship of a professional football club a far less rewarding pastime than captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club . |
| 12 | Top traffic officer Walter Girven , Wiltshire 's Chief Constable accuses those found positive of a blatant disregard foir the law . |
| 13 | As only three episodes of acid reflux were seen in the absence of a common cavity episode no statement could be made about the effects of acidification alone . |
| 14 | The latter was notably reticent in opening its armouries to UN inspection in July and undergoing the anxiety of a further UN deadline the following month , provoking problems which have yet to be resolved . |
| 15 | Prisoner is a puzzle game and computerisation of a little plastic puzzle the author bought in an airport lounge . |
| 16 | In a recent case involving a driver of a heavy goods vehicle an oral promise was made by one of the driver 's managers that the driver , a Mr Rump , would not be required to work anywhere in the UK , as mentioned in his contract of employment , but only in the south of England because of special family ties . |
| 17 | Without probing too deeply into the reasons for the emergence of that national consensus — and the cogency of the Munn report 's argument and the compactness of Scotland as an educational entity , can not be disregarded in this connection — the existence of that consensus is beyond question and it undoubtedly made the introduction of a national curriculum framework a relatively unproblematic matter . |
| 18 | Despite a major security operation the government had proved incapable of suppressing the rebellion by force , and had failed in numerous attempts to achieve a ceasefire through negotiation . |
| 19 | Despite a grim weather forecast the previous day , with the threat of thunderstorms , it turned out to be a sunny day — and it was quickly blessed with a record-breaking inward half of 29 by Mark Calcavecchia . |
| 20 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 21 | For a small screw pitch the effective inertia of the load is reduced and the motor can accelerate rapidly , but must attain a high stepping rate to compensate for the small increments of linear movement produced by each motor step . |
| 22 | Since the latter are available for a 5 km raster the registration data are assigned to these grid squares using the OS grid reference . |
| 23 | Hotel : ( For a wider choice head a mile north to Glenridding ) . |
| 24 | His interest in the British empire was stimulated by a schoolmaster 's setting for a Latin essay prize a subject involving imperial federation . |
| 25 | For a year-round foliage plant a variegated Persian ivy ; Hedera colchica ‘ Dentata Variegata ’ has large leaves generously splashed with yellow and grey . |
| 26 | Especially for a large word list the memory requirements are prohibitive . |
| 27 | For a load torque In some motors the torque/position characteristic is shaped to give a high value of stiffness near the equilibrium position , so for a given load torque the static position error is reduced . |
| 28 | If the stator and rotor teeth of one phase are fully aligned the flux path has a low reluctance ; for a given phase current a large flux links the windings , so the phase inductance is at its maximum value . |
| 29 | For a given phase current the torque produced by one phase is proportional to the rate of change of flux linkages with rotor position ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) and therefore the static torque/rotor position characteristics for positive excitation of the two phases can be deduced , as in Fig. 4.14(c) . |
| 30 | For a high crosslink density the transition is broad and ill-defined , but at lower values , T g is found to increase linearly with the number of crosslinks . |