Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time that a member of the military had been tried and found guilty of a human rights violation in 11 years of civil war marked by accusations of government-sanctioned torture , kidnapping and murder . |
| 2 | I was ( I think you will understand ) initially dubious about a single 10″ driver in such a small box really delivering the goods ( especially with the lower notes on my 5-string ) but was certainly intrigued by the cabinet design , so I was looking forward to giving the little beast some stick on a couple of gigs … |
| 3 | The proximal duodenum was anastomosed to the recipient duodenum end-to-end with a running all-coats layer and interrupted seromuscular sutures . |
| 4 | From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles . |
| 5 | But events have conspired to leave McGeechan well short of a full Lions choice . |
| 6 | In the third abortion case before the Supreme Court , the state of Illinois is appealing against a federal appeals court decision to quash a law which obliged abortion clinics to be designed and equipped like small hospitals . |
| 7 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 8 | Tip Anderson of Arnold Palmer fame , once told me he never learnt the precise yardages on the Old Course for such details are useless in a capricious links wind . |
| 9 | Thus the idea that instruments are substitutes at all is rather damning for a restrictive practices policy which , like that currently in operation in the UK , is based upon form rather than effect . |
| 10 | This course permits students with a general qualification in biology at degree level to undertake further study in specific areas of biological science up to a standard roughly equivalent to a specialised Honours degree . |
| 11 | It is true to a large extent for IBM and it is true for a branded goods company like Procter & Gamble . |
| 12 | Beginning in the 50s , we became active in a pre-civil rights movement and were later known as a civil rights school . |
| 13 | Although sympathetic to a progressive rights theory , Dignan attempts to avoid this problem by examining in some breadth and detail the validity of the assumptions made by Dworkin concerning modern liberal political systems , and argues that Dworkin 's assumptions may help provide the peace movement with a legal theory . |
| 14 | Visas are not required for entry into Bolivia , where you are given a 30-day entrance stamp , renewable at a federal police station in any major city . |
| 15 | A Zimbabwean student at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow was shot dead by a Russian police officer on Aug. 11 . |