Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
| 2 | The question might be raised whether a surgeon 's callousness is after all even a local violation of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 3 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 4 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 5 | Margaret Charlwood started her movement career at the age of six following a serious road accident which it was feared would permanently limit the movement of her legs — eleven years later she won a scholarship to the Arts Educational School in London where she studied all forms of dance , specialising in ballet . |
| 6 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 7 | The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness . |
| 8 | In scores of other towns , on the other hand , the market places have been partly built over , so that one gets a broad main street , a block of buildings down one side and behind that again a narrow street running parallel to the main street . |
| 9 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 10 | Hastings Kamuzu Banda , Malawi 's ruler since independence , was proclaimed Life President in 1971 following a constitutional amendment . |
| 11 | A joint venture goes further than co-operation , in that generally a new business entity is created , but falls short of a full merger of the parents , who remain independent . |
| 12 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
| 13 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 14 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 15 | though the Conservative government were able , in 1981 , to amend the GDO to increase the scope of permitted development from 10 to 15 per cent , the Labour government ‘ were forced to withdraw similar proposals in 1977 following a spirited battle in the House of Lords ’ . |
| 16 | In general only a small proportion of the specialised product enterprises involved the women of the family with a high involvement in North Yorkshire ( 100% ) and Wester Ross ( 67% ) . |
| 17 | From 1907 onwards a standardised record was kept for each woman admitted to the labour ward at the Jessop Hospital , Sheffield , England . |
| 18 | France , a striking case of this , had from 1880 onwards a compulsory examination for all entrants to its diplomatic and consular services which was hedged around with precautions against favouritism or unfairness ( all scripts were anonymous and double-marked ; the five-man jury which ranked the candidates contained two members from outside the foreign ministry ) . |
| 19 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 20 | Plexus , which went bankrupt in 1989 following an unstable transition from hardware to software production , was subsequently rescued by Dallas , Texas-based Recognition Equipment Inc . |
| 21 | The Constitution was suspended in 1974 following a military coup [ see pp. 26486-97 ] , and the country was ruled by a Supreme Military Council under Seyni Kountché until his death in November 1987 , when the Supreme Military Council appointed the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces , Brig. |
| 22 | The Constitution was suspended in 1974 following a military coup [ see pp. 26496-97 ] , and the country was ruled by a Supreme Military Council under Lt.-Col. Seyni Kountché until his death in November 1987 , when the Military Council appointed the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces , Brig. |
| 23 | Before 1772 only a little ale-house stood here , on a sandy waste . |
| 24 | The Contemporary Masters Index made up of ten internationally shown and collected artists shows a drop of 44% from the peak in 1990 yet an overall rise since 1985 of 235% . |
| 25 | Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up . |
| 26 | If we were to deliberately over-provide , then I think it would be difficult to put a brake on this once a certain level of jobs had been reached , once the land is committed , there is a certain certainty attached to that commitment and I wonder how that would sit with the er guidance on development plans . |
| 27 | While I 'm having a look at this just a quick glance through erm there 's the er range of products that we print design publish , we do n't sell them , for our clients . |
| 28 | Wark , at 35 still a major influence at Ipswich , has faith in fellow Scot Brian McClair and nothing but admiration for youngster Giggs . |
| 29 | At 11 a.m. a heavy rain of ash was falling , and by 11.20 the air was so thick with ash and pumice dust that the sun was blotted out , and total darkness fell on the city , remaining until 1 p.m . |
| 30 | At 11 p.m. a terrific barrage commenced . |