Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political violence alone claims an average of 10 lives a day . |
| 2 | British Aerospace generously sponsored an Air Display at their Woodford , Cheshire , airfield which was promoted by the North Western Area . |
| 3 | Despite these manifold advantages it is often hard to persuade the commercial community even to take an interest in proposals for harmonization affecting their sphere of business , still less to give the proposals their support . |
| 4 | Climbed a very high hill today called An Teallach and am just starting to recover now . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend also has an interest in the Light Infantry , which is relevant to Yorkshire . |
| 6 | Second , the combined forces of civilized distaste gradually had an effect on the working-class élite whilst the actual times and spaces for the old sports both in town and country were ever more restricted . |
| 7 | Confronted by a more formal , corporate approach to the business , Laura retreated to the outer circle only to launch an attack on the inner circle . |
| 8 | Nor will an exclusion of participation in dividends beyond a fixed preferential rate necessarily imply an exclusion of participation in capital ( or vice versa ) although it will apparently be some indication of it . |
| 9 | The perfect infinitive thus presents an event — a result phase — not as something which is itself directly perceived but rather as something which is inferred from a comparison of what is directly observed — the present state of the doctor — with what was observed at some earlier moment . |
| 10 | But the Official Solicitor immediately launched an appeal . |
| 11 | The prognathous condition often involves an inclination of the occipital foramen or the latter may retain its transverse position owing to an elongation of the ventral region of the head . |
| 12 | From the 1970s onwards , the cold war increasingly became an obstacle to economic and political stability . |
| 13 | In this way an ambitious secretary gradually becomes an assistant . |
| 14 | National culture clearly has an impact , but it remains one of the least researched areas of business . |
| 15 | The first issue concerned whether the government 's new-found commitment to community economic development actually represented an attempt by the government to shift responsibility for the structural problems being experienced in so-called deprived communities onto members of these communities . |
| 16 | A recent study which used the western blotting technique also showed an antibody against granulocytes in similar patients . |
| 17 | However , his allegiance to the cause and principles of international modernism never comprehended an allegiance to Ezra Pound as a modernist master . |
| 18 | Whilst the Civil Justice Review , as its recommendations are introduced , will produce considerable changes to the current High Court procedure in an effort to reduce delay , cost and complexity , the current procedure nevertheless provides an insight to what happens to civil actions prior to trial . |
| 19 | SENSING our recent sorrows , an elderly gentleman kindly sent an Arsenal badge in the mail . |
| 20 | International trade thus involves an element of currency exchange risk . |
| 21 | Independently of any other verb , the bare infinitive here expresses an event as a possibility , a rejected possibility . |
| 22 | THE Prime Minister yesterday promised an investigation of possible new curbs on pornography . |
| 23 | Our partnership with J. Rothschild Assurance as well as allowing us to extend our competitive advantage of service provision in a major way also provides an opportunity for us to extend our knowledge . |
| 24 | Furthermore , one country 's legal system often constitutes an impediment to another country 's attempts to gather information necessary to pursue a domestic case against a transnational corporation . |
| 25 | The ‘ poisoned chalice ’ of a fundamentally weak economy actually constitutes an inhibition on the sort of spontaneous recovery the government is looking for — William Keegan in the Observer |
| 26 | Full details of this process are given in chapters ST , MD and CF of the Guidelines : the following informal description simply gives an overview of the process . |
| 27 | Imaginative story-telling thus represents an alternative to information , but also to the realist novel which shares the media 's obsession with factual precision . |
| 28 | There was an unnatural silence , like the uncanny hush immediately following an explosion . |
| 29 | All are available free of charge from the Flour Advisory Bureau Please send an SAE ( 9″ × 12″ ) stating which leaflet you require . |
| 30 | The Spanish government apparently rejected an offer of a two-month truce made on July 10 by the Basque separatist organization Euzkadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) . |