Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee .
2 LABOUR 'S front bench has stayed away from Livingstone 's constituency , where he has a slender majority of 1,653 .
3 Basil makes his stage debut at Darlington Civic Theatre today where he has a brief walk-on part in the show Big Friendly Giant .
4 From the end of the road at Bracorina , a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis .
5 Texas is doing increasing and profitable business where it keeps a certain percentage of its dynamic memory chip production uncommitted until the last 90 days prior to release in order to fulfill the requirements of customers that are ‘ sole source ’ commitments and ‘ fab-less IC companies ’ .
6 The unpaired 5'T(-1) lies in the major groove of the next duplex , where it makes a Hoogsteen base pair with A17 to form a T.A.T triple helical interaction .
7 Chief executive Pierre Bonelli said that as a result , the company was able to concentrate on vertical markets , where it holds a leading position , such as defence .
8 If he does not , you may even wish to suggest one of them yourself , in circumstances where it seems a lesser evil than a final warning or dismissal .
9 Although she describes a stereotypical beau , Leapor emphasizes that Strephon 's artificial appearance is part of his strategy to deceive Celia .
10 However , although she has a pear-shaped figure , her height makes it easy for her to disguise the fact that her shoulders are narrower than her hips .
11 She is related to her sister 's children , so she has a genetic self interest in me doing things for my , for , for her er , female , er for her relatives and my father does n't .
12 In the case of the APT , the approach is diametrically opposite in that although it derives a causal relationship , it does not identify the determinant factors .
13 She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible .
14 Although it remains a popular option , for many organisations it is not without problems .
15 The conception of the international economy held by world-system theories is , in my view , less effective , although it gives a forceful account of contemporary changes in comparison with earlier periods .
16 Although it contains a considerable depth of sediment shed from the adjacent mountain ranges its floor still has a maximum elevation of just 74 m below sea level .
17 It sounds rather weird , and so in a way it is , although it finds a natural expression in terms of the quantum mechanical formalism .
18 Although it seems a good opportunity , it is no long term basis for a good relationship with our paymasters .
19 If such a strategy were to be an effective one — and the jury is still out , although it seems a promising idea — then reintegrative shaming would be a valuable method of reforming offenders , which ( as we have said ) is a valid reductivist aim to be pursued within a morally defensible penal system .
20 Although it carries a slight risk of giving false positive results , if followed by a rectal examination it gives a good indication of the presence of prostate malignancy , which can be further confirmed by ultrasound and biopsy .
21 It 's not just a little bit of science for the sake of science although it has a strong content there .
22 Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour .
23 Although it has a malevolent appearance , the primary chancre is usually completely painless and , unless secondary bacterial infection occurs , there may be no symptoms .
24 Chained to the chair is a Daemonette of unusually human and attractive appearance ( although it has a normal profile ) , captured as a concubine by Drachenfels long ago .
25 Arthur W. Adamson 's Physical Chemistry ( Academic , 2nd ed 1980 ) has less spectroscopy ( 80 pages ) although it has a useful table of 65 spectroscopy abbreviations .
26 Although it has a high price , this is a top quality tent .
27 Although it eschews a commercial position , optimised database packages and a transaction processing monitor are promised for the new servers in future and new relationships with Silicon Graphics ' existing suppliers are under negotiation .
28 Although he leads a different lifestyle from others he is basically a normal person !
29 And he does n't pay them any less than he pays a qualified man .
30 For example , a manufacturer of upholstery fabric may want to know how well his cloth wears , so he gives a certain piece of the cloth a standardized ‘ rubbing ’ test to see how many rubs it can stand before wearing through .
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