Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling is that no amount of legislative safeguards can entirely eliminate the risk of a chemical spill , wreaking havoc in this watery landscape where a network of mountain streams fed by high rainfall could quickly wash the damage into the drinking water , or down to the mussel farm and salmon fishery at the mouth of Killary harbour . |
| 2 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 3 | It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light , jazz-style accompaniment is required . |
| 4 | Next they went to another small machine where a foil cap was forced firmly against the neck of the bottle . |
| 5 | Crocker 's cautious approach to the electricity showroom , his quick sidelong glances , called to mind days long gone by when Wexford , then a sixth-form boy , had witnessed this same man as a child of ten , scuttling up to front doors playing ‘ Knocking Down Ginger ’ . |
| 6 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 7 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 8 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 9 | At one time , this rating was credited with almost as much scientific objectivity as a person 's blood group , but now its use is generally limited to self-diagnosis questionnaires in Sunday supplements . |
| 10 | Mode of dress can communicate such diverse information as a person 's ethnic origin , religious affiliation , occupation or social group and Helman ( 1984 ) cites examples of even self-mutilation to the body to indicate ‘ group ’ membership such as the insertion of large ornaments in the lips or earlobes in Brazil , East Africa and Melanesia . |
| 11 | A word processor is so much more power than a typewriter you would n't believe it . |
| 12 | For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit . |
| 13 | Mothers often failed to recognise such inner distress as a sense of failure , feeling unloved , fears , phobias and obsessions . |
| 14 | It must be added , though , that cats are stubborn animals and will often consider such chemical warfare as a kind of challenge . |
| 15 | Such extraneous matter as a sample of cork or a piece of heather may swell the fun . |
| 16 | In fact , because of Police and Trade Union restrictions , a motor bus running in London is allowed very little more flexibility than a trolleybus . |
| 17 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 18 | One way of moving towards this would be to have a Council Tax Administration Team dealing with the same geographic area as a Council Tax Rebate Team . |
| 19 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 20 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 21 | The Pump Wagon is heavily constructed and has the same basic profile as a chariot . |
| 22 | This has exactly the same internal format as a FONT except that its ID number is unique and not , as was the case with the FONT resource , the result of a calculation based on the font number , the size and a constant . |
| 23 | Yet the Discovery has a classy , Conran-designed interior , excellent seats and ride-comfort and a wonderful , rumbling V8 engine that emits just the same blue-blooded burble as a Range Rover . |
| 24 | No Perot speech is complete without a reference to the 1950s , that golden age when a dollar was worth a dollar ( now , on Mr Perot 's figures , it is worth 18 cents ) and IBM was the best company in the world . |