Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes . |
| 2 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 3 | About this time a shaft had been started from the end of a 42 yds. long tunnel , Bouncy Level , driven into the vein from a point much higher up the boulder strewn fell-side quite close to the Crag . |
| 4 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 5 | Two hundred and fifty British troops are preparing to fly to war-torn Croatia as part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 6 | A few governments say that they own weapons to provide a part of a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
| 7 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 8 | 1987 ; Reiner 1985 ; for an earlier and related argument see van Maanen 1973 , 1975 ) , and thus to the existence of a generalized police occupational culture . |
| 9 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 10 | At the heart of this is the introduction of an Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) system which not only allows fast , cheap transfer of data along lines that are free of interference but also voice and data transmission at the same time rather than using two separate lines . |
| 11 | The scandal also increased calls for the creation of an independent securities regulatory body similar to the Securities Exchange Commission in the USA . |
| 12 | The technique also enables them to opt for a 4 ohms working impedance ( as opposed to the norm of 8 ohms ) in the knowledge that this figure is much more consistent than the nominal figure given for almost all other loudspeakers ( in one or two notable designs the impedance dips almost to a short-circuit at certain frequencies , making them un-usuable with many amplifiers ) . |
| 13 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 14 | ISSUED HERE as a double 12″ white label pack , so it 's impossible to say which mixes will actually end up on the street . |
| 15 | Since part of the lithosphere is replaced by hot mantle of lower density from the asthenosphere , the lithosphere as a whole experiences isostatic uplift . |
| 16 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he plans to have with the United Nations Secretary General about a United Nations peace-keeping force in Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | Take advantage of this brand new collecting opportunity and you could soon be aboard a British Airways scheduled flight to any one of 140 international destinations . |
| 19 | The princess flew back to Britain as an ordinary passenger aboard a British Airways scheduled flight . |
| 20 | One of the proposals to relieve traffic congestion on Buxton Road seemed to envisage — details were difficult to obtain using the trackbed of the railway line together with a 100 feet wide portion of the field to create an urban motorway . |
| 21 | We know he will enjoy watching the sports programmes despite the fact that Bristol Rovers football team have not quite made it on to Sky TV yet ! is well know for being a keen supporter of Bristol Rovers , a fact which did not go unrecognised by who presented him with a beautiful jugglers top hat in his favourite team 's colours . |
| 22 | That compares with a forty pounds fixed penalty fine . |
| 23 | Created by Steve Chadwick , ‘ The Bunker ’ features a variety of climbing surfaces including a 45 degrees overhanging wall , a two metres roof , a number of mini routes and a slab for beginners . |
| 24 | ICL Plc and Hoskyns Group Plc have beaten the competition from IBM ( UK ) Ltd and Digital Equipment UK Ltd to win a prestige contract to provide the UK 's Department of Social Security with an Analytical Services Statistical Information System — Assist : the system , which is designed to enable users to extract , analyse and tabulate data for modelling and forecasting , will be based on a variety of ICL 's Openframework hardware and software products , running under Windows 3 , and includes data analysis tools from Berkshire-based SAS Software Ltd ; Hoskyns is to provide bespoke development effort where required . |
| 25 | This was as an International Securities Self-Regulating Organisation ( ISSRO ) , and took the AIBD outside both the RIE and FSA-authorisation requirements . |
| 26 | As an alternative ¾″ thick chipboard can be used where regulations allow but fixings into this will not be as secure as into plywood . |
| 27 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 28 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 29 | The final day of the hearing has included evidence from a Metropolitan Police forensic expert , who admitted ammunition found at the scene of the crime did n't match that found at Marsh 's parents ' home . |
| 30 | The draw is everything in a 200 metres indoor race . |