Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other pilots all attacked the remaining three and a multiplicity of claims were made , Plt.Off . |
| 2 | It was not until the feminist movement re-emerged with vigour in the early 1970s that a critique of ‘ permissiveness ’ was constructed . |
| 3 | Stewart Mason , the new Chairman of the NCDAD , was — as we have seen — convinced by the early 1970s that a merger was both inevitable and desirable . |
| 4 | The major step forward in understanding the role of chlamydia in oculo-genital infection came in the early sixties when a group of workers in London published several reports connecting eye infection in the newborn baby with the presence of chlamydia in the mother 's genital tract and non-specific urethritis in the father . |
| 5 | This awareness of im-pending disaster was exacerbated in the early seventies when a slump occurred in the property market . |
| 6 | The obvious dawned when a method of speeding the development time was spotted . |
| 7 | Those in the know say that ‘ vibe ’ was a hippy term that disappeared in Dublin during the punk purges but resurfaced in the late Eighties when a town bathing in the warm glow of U2 's global ascendancy rediscovered its ( hippy ? ) roots . |
| 8 | It was however in the late 1950s that a dog arrived who embodied everything that was thought to be correct , a living blueprint for further development . |
| 9 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 10 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 11 | Back at Talland Bay our Officers let the smugglers do the heavy work of loading the huge two and a quarter ton cargo of cannabis resin ( street value £2,500,000 wrapped in Christmas paper into vans before moving in to arrest them while cottages and a cafe in the area used by the UK based gang were also raided . |
| 12 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 14 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 15 | ‘ Unfortunately , you do n't win any prizes for a fast-finishing seventh and a race like the Ebor does n't come round every day , ’ he said . |
| 16 | As Roth ( 1974 ) points out , the notion that only professions have subcultures is negated by the ‘ distinct and pervasive patterns of occupational life ’ found amongst dockers , seamen , miners , etc. ; prostitutes also claim that their service is a social good and a community service ; a lack of demarcation of work and leisure is equally true of policemen as of dockers ; and so on . |
| 17 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 18 | Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands . |
| 19 | as if to confirm his train of thought there came a great crashing and a screeching of metal . |
| 20 | Of the seats where the Liberal Democrats are second , there are 16 where Labour is a poor third and a switchover by the bulk of the Labour vote would give the Lib Dems victory . |
| 21 | A medical orderly and a nurse patch up a competitor 's foot during a break in the Nijmegen Marches |
| 22 | In June 1968 , at their first meeting , Ceauşescu shrewdly let a twenty minute courtesy call run on for a flattering two and a quarter hours . |
| 23 | Look forward to a miserable 1990 and a fast-improving 1991 , vicious circles permitting . |
| 24 | The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram . |
| 25 | It comes in a large range of tints , but I only use three : a warm grey , a blue grey and a sand colour . |
| 26 | The pair added a fluent 80 before a mix-up saw the latter depart , although TV replays suggested he was unlucky . |
| 27 | A local authority may therefore bring proceedings : ( i ) to prevent parents from removing a child accommodated by the local authority under voluntary arrangements where a return home is likely to harm the child significantly ; ( ii ) to protect a child who has been significantly harmed in the past where this is likely to happen again because , for example , a parent is known to abuse in certain recurring circumstances ; ( iii ) to protect a child who has never been harmed where the family history clearly places him at risk , eg a new born or a child reaching an age at which other children in the family have been harmed . |
| 28 | Intending participants were asked to provide either an extended abstract or a position paper for the workshop , and a number of these were selected for presentation . |
| 29 | In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly . |
| 30 | For a Government with a fifty billion pound deficit to tackle it 's a tempting target for VAT , bringing in an estimated two and a quarter billion pounds . |