Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the driver 's seat of this car a member of the public found the body of a man , in his 40s . |
| 2 | Due to the brevity of this period a neurone can send action potentials at a rate of up to 1000 per second . |
| 3 | In addition to working closely with Government to ensure that fiscal and other financial policies do not create competition barriers for UK industry , he is making harmonisation of financial reporting a priority . |
| 4 | Taplin Green and Keeley — or their ghosts since none of those names now survived in the list of partners — had offices on the south side of New Square a corridor with an uneven floor under the carpeting and doorways that had subsided to odd angles . |
| 5 | In 1976 won the Queen 's Award to Industry and in recognition of this achievement a reception was held at Buckingham Palace . |
| 6 | We now know too that in the later part of that time a form of Greek was widely spoken there . |
| 7 | In the early part of this century a calendar of the Abbey muniments was produced . |
| 8 | In the first part of this century a shepherd , returning from his upland pasture near Rennes-le-Chateaux , stumbled and fell into a fissure in the limestone escarpment , breaking his leg . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) On renewing a licence under this Part of this Act a licensing board may by order , to be served on the holder , direct that , within a time fixed by the order , such structural alterations shall be made in the premises comprising the canteen as the board thinks reasonably necessary to secure the proper conduct of the canteen ; and if , when application for renewal of the licence is next made after the time fixed by the order has expired , it is not shown to the satisfaction of the licensing board that the order has been complied with , the licensing board may refuse to renew the licence . |
| 10 | Last year the general assembly gave to the Board of Social Responsibility a task of coordinating the work of the church in this field and we are proud now to be able to report to the general assembly that the work done by the assembly 's various Boards and by numerous local initiatives make the Church of Scotland the nation 's leading provider of services to the victims of H I V and to their families delivering both the most extensive and the most comprehensive service to these people within Scotland . |
| 11 | Futurists call this kind of fundamental transformation a paradigm shift , although the term is now a misused buzzword for any change . |
| 12 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 13 | It was the kind of loose description a teacher might hand out to a class of pupils and ask for drawings based on its inspiration . |
| 14 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 15 | Right , it 's just that we had this issue in support of other research a questionnaire and in support key divisions , sorry , key departments have lists of named individuals who can authorise questionnaires . |
| 16 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 17 | ( c ) Court order and completion of the abstract In the case of unregistered land a copy of the court order or abstract thereof , marked as examined against the original , should be placed with the title documents . |
| 18 | Prior to the sado-masochism case at the Old Bailey , the law on what type of physical harm a person might consent to was , at the very least , uncertain . |
| 19 | Now that again suggests for this strategic type of inward investment a location away from existing built-up areas . |
| 20 | For example , an inductivist might take as his universal criterion the degree of inductive support a theory receives from accepted facts , whilst a falsificationist might base his criterion on the degree of falsifiability of unfalsified theories . |
| 21 | On the issue of scientific freedom a contrast can therefore be drawn between certain Protestant cultures and those under Roman Catholic jurisdiction — a contrast exemplified by the careers of two Copernicans : Galileo himself and the most fervent popularizer of the system in England , John Wilkins . |
| 22 | In the ‘ Heard on my Rounds ’ column of this edition a piece mentioning Tom has now been deleted . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , these entitlements are limited to the recipients having legal residence in Germany and the new law on foreign nationals ( Ausländergesetz 1990 ) can make the receipt of unauthorized assistance a reason for deportation ( Münder , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | It believes that the Country needs a return of the sane principles of ‘ peace , retrenchment , and reform ’ , which formed the basis of Liberal policy a generation ago . |
| 25 | And around each blow the flesh shuddered — the same sort of involuntary movement a cow will use to despatch a fly , but the ripples were more pronounced and further-reaching . |
| 26 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 27 | Verity made a sort of wriggling motion a couple of times , straining back against her seat . |
| 28 | Members paid a fee of one shilling a year and one penny a week for each book borrowed . |
| 29 | A fee of one penny a week was initially charged to attend the night classes but after objections from the 18 to 20 year olds the teaching was provided gratuitously resulting in improved attendance with the " boys " advancing rapidly . |
| 30 | An extra charge of 20,000 Lire a day is charged if heating is used . |