Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the associated qualities clearly relate to attributes which the animals undoubtedly possess — an elephant is an obvious symbol of strength and power in any culture — but it is by no means obvious why a bat should be associated with happiness or a deer with affluence . |
| 2 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 3 | A coup attempt was launched in the early hours of Oct. 13 when a group of soldiers unsuccessfully attacked an arsenal close to N'Djamena airport . |
| 4 | In this age of electricity and modern heating systems , there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago . |
| 5 | In the case of unregistered title , a search at HM Land Charges Registry against both the husband and the wife should be made , whilst a Form 94A Search is appropriate in the case of registered land ( except in the case of Precedent 41 when a Form 94C Search is appropriate . |
| 6 | Under section 228 when a parent company is itself a subsidiary and its immediate parent is established under the law of a member State , it may , if certain conditions are fulfilled , be exempt from the requirement to prepare group accounts . |
| 7 | National Democratic Congress ( NDC , centrist , Nicholas Brathwaite l. ) formed a government in March 1990 following an offer of support from Ben Jones , the leader of The National Party ( TNP ) . |
| 8 | This will be looked at in Chapter 7 where a number of commercial DBMS are investigated . |
| 9 | We discussed in Chapter 7 how a camera might be used in the classroom to record student performance , and in Chapter 9 the recording of teacher performance as part of a teacher-training programme . |
| 10 | We saw in Chapter 3 how a number of major morphological features , notably orogenic mountain belts and island arcs , coincide with convergent plate boundaries ; a superficial glance at the Earth 's morphology might even suggest that all significant sub-aerial topographic features are confined to such boundaries . |
| 11 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
| 12 | And some have been blown off the face of the earth in massive bomb attacks such as Teebane in Co Tyrone where seven workmen perished in January 1992 when a land mine exploded under their bus . |
| 13 | The grand alliance of OSI became public in May 1985 when a meeting of 20 computer companies , dominated by US rivals of IBM , met in conference and established the Corporation for Open Systems . |
| 14 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 15 | The big chance came in July 1955 when a by-election in the heart of Ashanti was caused by the death of its Cpp MP . |
| 16 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |
| 17 | The intercommunal talks had reopened on Feb. 26 after having been broken off in July 1989 following an incident on the " green line " between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the island , when more than 100 Greek Cypriots were arrested by Turkish Cypriot police [ see p. 36822 ] . |
| 18 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 19 | The June 1987 general election resulted in the return of Paias Wingti 's coalition government which had first come to office in November 1985 following a vote of no confidence in the government of Michael Somare . |
| 20 | Gp Capt R C Hockey sent Air Mail the excellent photograph of what happened at Kinloss on a dark night in October 1943 when an Anson was approaching to land at the same time — and on the same bit of field — as a Whitley was just starting its take-off run . |
| 21 | In September the DPP decided not to bring corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail after four people died in October 1987 when a river bridge at Glanrhyd , Dyfed , Wales , over which a train was travelling despite a red flood alert , collapsed . |
| 22 | On the other hand in part of Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire , the first trees were cut down in October 1856 following an act of parliament . |
| 23 | Plans for the so-called " three gorges dam " on the Yangtze river were reportedly resurrected in August 1990 over a year after they had been shelved by the Chinese government [ see also p. 37003 ] . |
| 24 | The scandal began in September 1991 when an inquiry revealed that thousands of cheques had been drawn in excess of the account-holders ' funds at the House bank , thereby providing the offenders with limitless and interest-free credit . |
| 25 | These two major blows basically saw the end of his racing career , although he continued to compete on BMWs and Nortons again , before retiring in September 1961 following a crash in Sweden . |
| 26 | An example of the output is shown in Plate 2 where an image of As , Sb and Bi in stream sediments , which are associated with gold mineralisation , indicates anomalous values over several gold prospects in the Argyll area of western Scotland . |
| 27 | In bars 5–7 there a lot of left-hand-only hammer-ons and tremolo arm slides . |
| 28 | As we walked the river path towards Dent a pair of curlews rose in alarm close by a pool where one autumn morning I had watched a heron fishing . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , I felt it necessary to invoke the paragraph in relation to the Spanish report on the Dan Air 727 which crashed at Tenerife in April 1980 where an attachment by the UK accredited representative constitutes an integral part of the official report on the accident . |
| 30 | He had surgery in April 1991 when a growth was removed . |