Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | Labour , wholly in thrall to this feminist cause , will create a Ministry of Women ( as well as a Minister for the Disabled and a Minister for Children ) to generate ‘ legislation for women ’ . |
| 3 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 4 | Police said a report had been prepared for the procurator-fiscal and a man is expected to appear at Dumfries Sheriff Court on Monday . |
| 5 | It was reduced to only two dozen cows during the 1970s but a breed society was formed in 1984 and numbers have increased to about 100 , with a large bank of frozen semen ; it remains severely endangered . |
| 6 | I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay . |
| 7 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 9 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 10 | Frame 's international standing was rewarded with a Vice-Presidency of the World Federation of the Deaf and a place on its elected Bureau . |
| 11 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 12 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 13 | It was a symptom or symbol of the 1980s and a lesson for the 1990s of collusion between Government and irresponsible elements who have done much to give the tobacco industry a bad name . |
| 14 | Historians are certain to acknowledge that she dominated the political landscape of the 1980s and a number of her policies will leave a mark in post-Thatcher Britain . |
| 15 | It consists of a two and a half foot length of narrow clear plastic tube which is fixed to your cleaner by means of an adaptor . |
| 16 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 17 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 18 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
| 19 | Edward felt like a colonial or a schoolboy , and it irked . |
| 20 | Privilege tickets at fares somewhere near a third or a quarter ordinary rate were issued at any booking office on presentation of an application form . |
| 21 | The effect of both these procedures is that the defaulting party has 21 days in which to make the payment , following which the party making the demand can present a bankruptcy petition against an individual or a winding-up petition against a company . |
| 22 | Here is the source of the cunning factor and Kent are unashamed — indeed almost gleeful — in their avowed intention to take full advantage of the Lord 's dispensation that , in order to encourage slow bowling , the same pitch may be used for a one-day and a championship match . |
| 23 | Romany King is five pounds better off than last year for a two and a half length beating and is now ridden by Adrian Maguire , one of the most talented young jockeys on the circuit . |
| 24 | He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian . |
| 25 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 26 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 27 | Estimates suggest that between a fifth and a quarter of children may spend some time in a one-parent family . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , between a fifth and a quarter of firms within the zones considered that their output , employment and productivity would be lower without on-site incentives . |
| 29 | In the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century re-exporting still accounted for between a fifth and a quarter of total exports . |
| 30 | I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’ |