Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So confident is BMW of its fuel efficiency and smoothness that fifth gear is now direct drive instead of an overdrive , an interesting move that adds flexibility to performance when pressing on , and the ability to trickle along and pull away in high gear with a minimum of protest . |
| 2 | Information is increasingly distributed in electronic form either via an office system or , more basically , sent out on a disk . |
| 3 | Provided death has not occurred , the policy may be reinstated at any time during the following twelve months on payment of all unpaid premiums together with an addition for late payment . |
| 4 | Provided death has not occurred , the policy may be reinstated at any time during the following twelve months on payment of all unpaid premiums together with an addition for late payment . |
| 5 | These remarks reveal the irresistible appeal of the playful cat even in an era when felines were generally considered to be evil and dangerous , and were being widely persecuted . |
| 6 | In adverse possession , the claimant must show not only actual possession for the required period together with an intention to possess the land , but also that the possession was " adverse " , which normally means " designed to keep out the real ( " " paper " " ) owner " . |
| 7 | Appendix C shows the anti-racism statement together with an extract from one such guidance paper on dealing with racist clients . |
| 8 | We must always remember that there is nothing that compels anybody to work for an individual company even in an era of high unemployment . |
| 9 | The courses are designed to provide the student with spoken and written fluency in the principal language together with an ability to understand the written and spoken forms of the other two Scandinavian languages . |
| 10 | The difficulty lies principally in that , whereas most scientists and engineers operate in a three-dimensional world capable of reasonable representation on a television screen , the multivariate nature of data analysis goes far beyond this into a space of m dimensions conceivable to the human mind only as an abstraction . |
| 11 | Idoxuridine , one such agent , can be applied to herpetic ulcers either in an ointment base or dissolved in a solvent which aids its absorption in the skin , and has enthusiastic followers , but again convincing evidence of its efficacy is lacking . |
| 12 | ‘ They were going to try a new drug on him which had never been tested on a human being before in an effort to try and stop the progress of the tumour . |
| 13 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 14 | v. Warwickshire County Council , ex parte Johnson , the Appellate Committee again admitted parliamentary material either as an aid to construing section 20 of the Consumer protection Act 1987 , or alternatively to confirm its judgment on the construction . |
| 15 | Both approaches are necessary and , in fact , complementary , yet there may be misapprehension about the appropriate place of each , leading occasionally to unnecessary conflict even within an organisation . |
| 16 | A major difficulty here for an anthropologist is that the ethologists tend to describe their observations in language which takes the anthropomorphic analogy for granted . |
| 17 | Naas Botha took his white Springbok players to a squalid black township yesterday in an attempt to defuse today 's potentially explosive Test with Australia in Cape Town . |
| 18 | This is the area which is subjected to scrutiny and would enable the consideration of , say , a reduction in the level of environmental services together with an increase in spending on education . |
| 19 | The last part of this reading is the most profound , and is of great interest both as an exegesis of Marx , and as a general philosophical position . |
| 20 | Police in Norwich , where the bodies were discovered by the importer , sent papers found on the men to the Romanian Embassy yesterday in an attempt to establish their identities . |
| 21 | Also in the constellation is M16 , the Eagle Nebula , which consists of a galactic cluster together with an emission nebula ; the guide star is Gamma Scuti ( 4.7 ) , and the Eagle Nebula is only just over the Scutum boundary into Serpens . |
| 22 | Such figures may come to have their independent existence either as an archetype of a particular characteristic or quality or an inhabitant of that shadowy half-world where real and unreal live in harmony . |
| 23 | The Commission is urging the government to allow poisoning of the grey squirrel nationwide in an effort to save the native species and to reduce the damage wreaked by grey squirrels on forests . |
| 24 | It still has an important part to play but as a secondary negotiator possibly as an underwriter to any arrangement Israel may reach with the Palestinians . |
| 25 | Secondly , the APU data suggest that this may well be a neglected area in the later years of secondary schooling both from an assessment viewpoint and in curriculum terms . |
| 26 | They are prepared to vote against the government , even at the cost of a damaging row just before an election . |
| 27 | We do not think that reduced fetal growth is associated with death from cardiovascular disease merely through an association with adverse influences acting in the adult lives of people of low social class . |
| 28 | In the aesthetic sphere , as I mentioned , fundamental is a pronounced break away from an anchoring by an externally imposed order . |
| 29 | He appeared to be inviting various people forward for an introduction . |
| 30 | Keynes was nevertheless very cautious in accepting the phenomenon of diminishing marginal costs as a general characteristic even of an economy experiencing substantial levels of unemployment . |