Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn could barely think , let alone string coherent words together to form an answer . |
| 2 | Political violence alone claims an average of 10 lives a day . |
| 3 | British Aerospace generously sponsored an Air Display at their Woodford , Cheshire , airfield which was promoted by the North Western Area . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Climbed a very high hill today called An Teallach and am just starting to recover now . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend also has an interest in the Light Infantry , which is relevant to Yorkshire . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Despite abandoning a planned £34m ( $66m ) European airline venture with Belgium 's carrier , Sabena , and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , British Airways still wants an alliance with the troubled Sabena , but faces competition from other airlines pursuing the same goal . |
| 9 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 10 | In September 1977 the second wave of terrorism by the Baader-Meinhof gang reached its grisly climax : the businessman Hans-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered ; Palestinian and German terrorists made a vain bid to get Baader and others released from prison , by hijacking a Lufthansa airliner ; and when German police forcibly put an end to the hijack Baader and his colleagues committed suicide . |
| 11 | West German politicians also sought an enlargement of the European Parliament . |
| 12 | Several early computers therefore provided an instruction to manipulate the operand field of another instruction ; instructions 18 and 19 on the Von Neumann computer ( Figure 1.5 ) are an example . |
| 13 | In particular , surplus countries often neutralized an inflow of gold by preventing it from adding to the domestic money supply . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the Official Solicitor immediately launched an appeal . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | From the 1970s onwards , the cold war increasingly became an obstacle to economic and political stability . |
| 20 | In this way an ambitious secretary gradually becomes an assistant . |
| 21 | National culture clearly has an impact , but it remains one of the least researched areas of business . |
| 22 | Nationalised industries usually have an advantage against their ‘ sponsoring ’ ministry in that their management is more continuous than that of ministers and mandarins , but this was not the case for Citrine . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A recent study which used the western blotting technique also showed an antibody against granulocytes in similar patients . |
| 25 | Indeed , the Maud Committee in some of its less contentious proposals simply represented an encouragement to practices already being developed in larger local authorities ( Greenwood et al . |
| 26 | The Belgian authorities immediately commenced an investigation with the active participation of the UK accredited representative , Geoffrey Wilkinson ( who happened to be top of the list at the time ) , and his team of advisers comprising Geoffrey Feltham , who subsequently took over as head of the AIB engineering section , Jimmy Lett and the RAF consultant pathologists who normally worked with AIB . |
| 27 | However , his allegiance to the cause and principles of international modernism never comprehended an allegiance to Ezra Pound as a modernist master . |
| 28 | The stark statement on April 4th from the Basque separatists seemingly put an end to their longest-ever truce . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | SENSING our recent sorrows , an elderly gentleman kindly sent an Arsenal badge in the mail . |