Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) ‘ firm ’ means an unincorporated partnership consisting of solicitors or recognised bodies or both , or a multi-national partnership and includes also a solicitor who is a sole practitioner ; |
| 2 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 3 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 4 | In this dialogue Masefield offers a brief recapitulation to steady his headlong narrative and offers also a facet of the lad 's character , linking the ebullience of youth to the enforced maturity of the adventure . |
| 5 | The Grand Sanctuary was a vast building and stood only a short distance from the palace of Westminster . |
| 6 | Preece beat the keeper again five minutes later , controlling a pass from the right wing and rifling home a right foot shot from 10 yards out . |
| 7 | The Arab governments and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) rejected the idea of a regional conference and supported instead a UN-supervised international conference on the Middle East , attended by a full PLO delegation . |
| 8 | These paintings do not differ fundamentally from his work of the previous autumn and represent only a very gentle movement towards a softer , more lyrical kind of painting . |
| 9 | As the former Director of WHO Global Programme on AIDS has said : ‘ Denial at personal , social , national and international level has been a constant problem and remains today a grave threat to public health . ’ |
| 10 | Currently some 28,000 co-operative farms and 2,600,000 ejidatarios accounted for half of all arable land but contributed only a small percentage of gross national income , and much of the country 's food was imported . |
| 11 | Our most up to date probing of Intel Corp 's P5 or Pentium architecture — given that the company is sending different messages to different parts of the industry — has the processor running at only two thirds of its promised speed and needing both a heat sink and fan to dissipate the heat it is producing . |
| 12 | The 40-member National People 's Assembly , " the supreme organ of the state " , is elected for a five-year term and meets twice a year . |
| 13 | In his first independent act as king he established his authority on a sure foundation and revealed both a sound political judgement and a determination not to allow himself to be dependent upon a small group of powerful nobles . |
| 14 | He was a disciplinarian , but a very fair and good man and organized quite a large number of servants , including three footmen and several housemaids and kitchen-workers . |
| 15 | Once again it was the Club Secretary Eddie who came to the fore maintaining his good form and romping home a clear winner . |
| 16 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 17 | Under these circumstances , it is not surprising that objective measurements are not commonplace in clinical practice and remain largely a research tool . |
| 18 | The pun challenges models of cognition based on analytic reasoning and proposes instead a conception of language as a force capable of altering its object . |
| 19 | ‘ What you can be sure of , ’ said Thorfinn , eluding the question , ‘ is that the Pope and the Emperor Henry both know , and that one is dying while the other enjoys indifferent health and has only a three-year-old son to succeed him . |
| 20 | Thirdly , regulatory agencies are specialist enforcement authorities , having a finite domain of control , consisting of particular behaviour and involving only a segment of the population at large , defined by the kind of economic activity subject to regulation . |
| 21 | He stayed at the hospital until 1949 , when a Bloomsbury House visitor reported : ‘ He looks extremely well , but unshaven … he is in an open ward and has quite a lot of freedom … |
| 22 | Incessant organising and campaigning over a quarter of a century of turbulent activity had taken their toll . |
| 23 | It is usually a facultative characteristic and affects only a proportion of the worm population . |
| 24 | The use of restraint must be within a narrow context and affecting only a very small number of residents , he said . |
| 25 | John Retallack is a bright director but keeps only a very light hand on the tiller here ; this is not so much director 's theatre as anonymous the- atre . |
| 26 | There are , of course , those only too ready to malign my whole project and offer instead a much shorter and simpler account . |