Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are profit share , i.e. profit income as a proportion of the total income of an enterprise and profit return , i.e. profit as a proportion of the capital invested in the enterprise . |
| 2 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 3 | Perhaps the odd purchase of a revolver or two , but that 's all . ’ |
| 4 | The piano version is a tour de force demanding the prodigious technique of a Brendel or a Cherkassky . |
| 5 | A vice is a bad habit or some kind of strange temperament in a horse or pony not normally expected which renders it — dangerous , or less useful or liable to decline in health . |
| 6 | There is scant support for a project that , if it goes ahead , can not fail to leave its mark on a remarkable stretch of untamed countryside . |
| 7 | But the clog of sound she had never noticed in hospital was removed , as if a plug of cotton wool had been taken out ; that constant humming buzz of the working building like a machine or a living body around her . |
| 8 | Further , they would have the satisfaction of investing money in a thing that was calculated to add materially to enhancing the town and district . ’ |
| 9 | The main track on which they were travelling led due west for a while and then turned slightly north . |
| 10 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 11 | Walter Bagehot 's The English Constitution , published in 1867 , constituted a classic description of a Constitution that had not previously been so well sketched , yet a Constitution that was to undergo significant modifications as a result of the passage that very year of the Second Reform Act . |
| 12 | STRASBOURG — Jean-Marie Le Pen 's European Right party has offended both Switzerland and Israel , brought the European Parliament to a standstill and embarrassed the British Conservatives in Blackpool , writes David Usborne . |
| 13 | In the seventh minute , just after Broddle had been booked for a tackle on Derek Ferguson , Ian Ferguson had cruel luck with a header that hit the post . |
| 14 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 15 | This traditionalist stress also received strong support at a rank and file level within the feminist LNA . |
| 16 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 17 | Only in a few instances were brass or copper depositum plates provided , for it was more usual to outline the initials , date of death and age of the occupant on to the lid with black-headed upholstery nails with the possible addition of a skull and crossbones outlined at the head of the lid , whilst the sides were decorated with a single row of close-set nails all round . |
| 18 | This book 's purpose is to show Charles as an archexponent of Carolingian political practice in an age when new ( as well as old ) problems beset all Charlemagne 's successors but none more so than Charles . |
| 19 | Bridges broke on the narrow side of a lineout and Davies was driven over by his pack in the corner . |
| 20 | Now there 's a word I 'm going to use right now which is a technical term in a way and that is is er the technical term for the study of language and how we speak the word what we say and how we say it . |
| 21 | The former included the North-West regional diploma in special needs , the first example of a course developed in total partnership between a university and a polytechnic which allowed students to take modules from either institution and also gave credit recognition to specific Open University and LEA courses . |
| 22 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 23 | He made a final , half-hearted attempt at a smile that could have been a yawn . |
| 24 | Docherty 's prodigious talent as a footballer and a disciplinarian flowered in the late '40s during his National Service . |
| 25 | It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more . |
| 26 | However , the point you have to erm , recall , is that if it 's a conflict between parental investment in a sibling and parental investment in myself , I am twice as closely related to myself as I am to my sibling . |
| 27 | The next day , after the thirty-third night spent on the exitless side of a bed that was shoved up against a wall and that also housed a physiotherapist called Daphne , an air hostess called Olga , and Olga 's dopey Teddy bear , I got out of the bottom of the bed unheard and thought , No . |
| 28 | The colon indicates the strongest possible break within a sentence and can be interpreted as meaning " as follows " . |
| 29 | Just trying to put some of those questions to the man was turning the whole ill-fated interview into a monster that dominated a good deal of her thinking . |
| 30 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |