Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , who was the victim of the harsh tumult of dissonance , observed how the noiselessness of the forest was made evident by the occasional snap of a twig or dry thud of a pine-cone falling to the ground . |
| 2 | Wearing the portrait of a military or political leader upon a ring or on a coin mounted as a jewel was an obvious sign of allegiance ; other portraits of unknown individuals were presumably private commemorations . |
| 3 | procedural acts ( pleadings , motions , orders and subpoenas ) that are served and requests for information that are made by a judicial or administrative authority of a State Party to a judicial or administrative authority of another State Party and are transmitted by a letter rogatory from the Central Authority of the State of origin to the Central Authority of the State of destination . |
| 4 | Throughout the text , other works are cross-referenced for more detailed or specific assistance to a practitioner who may be looking into one particular area in more detail . |
| 5 | Amongst the group with no training officer , evidence or specific mention of a training plan , based on assessment of needs of individuals and organizations was rare : the following comments were all made by authorities with training officers : |
| 6 | Finally , the theory that attention is directed to the left or right side as a consequence of asymmetrical activation of the cerebral hemispheres ( Kinsbourne , 1970 ; 1973 ; 1975a ) predicts that in hemispherectomised patients attention should be directed almost exclusively to the side contralateral to the intact hemisphere . |
| 7 | a digitizing device using light sensitivity to translate a picture or typed text into a pattern of dots which can be understood and stored by a computer . |
| 8 | In many insects the number of veins is less than in the hypothetical type , and the reduction has been brought about by the degeneration or complete atrophy of a vein , or of one or more of its branches , or by the coalescence of adjacent veins . |
| 9 | They might be asked to contribute information to a careers programme , or technical expertise to a science lesson . |
| 10 | Remember that any compressed or expanded version of a bit image will contain distortions of the original , however , intelligent the algorithms used . |
| 11 | However , without discounting this possibility altogether , we should beware of falling victim to a fairly common fallacy : mistaking an easily observed but minor or accidental by-product of a phenomenon for the cause of the phenomenon . |
| 12 | While this is unlikely to cause a problem in a pond with a pH of 7.5 or less , it could do so in a poorly filtered or overcrowded pond with a pH of 8.0 or above . |
| 13 | If you wanted to make the room seem more like a bedroom/sitting room than a study/library/dining room that will also accommodate a guest , you could make much more of the sofa bed and have a rectangular or drop-leaf table like a sofa table behind it . |
| 14 | Schneider 's discussion of American kinship argues that the removal of the third party makes the continuation of the relationship voluntary : the divorced or widowed spouse of a blood relative will still be treated as a relative only if there is a continuing relationship in the qualitative sense 1968 , pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 15 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 16 | This model acknowledges that social problems still arise , but the cause is located in the personal or social pathology of a minority of individuals and families whose behaviour or non-conformity must be controlled . |
| 17 | Loss of equilibrium or social balance within a group may occur because of a variety of behaviours which lead to communication blockages . |
| 18 | Kids will not overnight be protected from warfare , child labour , or sexual abuse as a result . |
| 19 | was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids . |
| 20 | We showed no significant difference between solid or mixed tumours and significant difference between tumours which had diploid picture or haploid picture on a D N A analysis . |
| 21 | If you want to open a National Savings Investment or Ordinary Account at a post office , you will now be asked to give proof of your identity . |
| 22 | This restricts the applicability of such rules since it renders them unavailable to any linguist interested in diachronic change or synchronic variation in a language . |
| 23 | ROSYTH workers will have to wait until late spring or early summer for a decision on whether the dockyard will win the key Trident nuclear refitting contract , it emerged yesterday . |
| 24 | Work could produce ill-health or early death from a number of circumstances . |
| 25 | The traveller also needs an onward or return ticket to a destination outside North America or the Caribbean and must complete a visa waiver form . |
| 26 | Thakin Tun Ok was appointed head of a baho asoya or central administration for a brief while until the Japanese turned to Ba Maw , released from Mogok jail , who headed an ‘ Independence preparatory Committee ’ . |
| 27 | They have no remarkable features to catch the eye , nor , in tandem , do they form a satifying or picturesque group as a street of Georgian terraces does . |
| 28 | In particular : ( a ) money paid as a result of actual or threatened duress to the person , or actual or threatened seizure of a person 's goods , is recoverable . |
| 29 | The management of the hospital or service can be left to the unit manager or chief executive of a trust . |
| 30 | One opposing or discordant curve in a set can deter rotation and suggest a clasping , a containment of area that contradicts the radiation . |