Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Passive perception of phonemes activated BA 22/42 bilaterally , whereas a rhyming task and a similar phonological judgement task , all performed silently , also activated Broca 's area ( left BA 44 ) but not the left supramarginal gyrus ( left BA 40 ) . |
| 32 | The main reason for this caution is that since a magnetic tape or a photograph furnish a permanent record of behaviour , the subject is entitled to be aware that such a permanent record is being made . |
| 33 | After a pretentious dinner and a bad night — it is rare , I find , to get through even a fortnight 's motoring trip in France without at least one such disaster — spent in a highly unlikely establishment disguised as a cluster of Camargue guardian huts , we left before breakfast and spent a healing morning lost in the remaining lonely stretches of this once completely wild , mysterious , melancholy , half-land , half-water , Rhone estuary country . |
| 34 | After a cold bath and a trickling shower I fell fast asleep , before lunch , on the simple but comfortable iron bedstead . |
| 35 | A cinema organ is like a big jelly mould , illuminated from within , a most spectacular thing that changed colour according to whether a major key or a minor key was being played . |
| 36 | However one designs the procedure — whether a parliamentary procedure or a public inquiry — the majority of poeple will think that it is unfair that it is being forced or inflicted on them . |
| 37 | The European Court further ruled in this case that Arts 48 and 59 of the EC Treaty do not prevent a member state from requiring that the exercise of the profession of auditor in that state by a person qualified to carry on that profession in another member state be subject to conditions which are objectively necessary to guarantee observation of professional rules concerning the permanence of the infrastructure in place for the completion of the work , the effective presence in the member state and assurance of the observation of professional ethics , unless respect for such rules and conditions is already guaranteed by a reviseur d'entreprises , whether a natural person or a firm , established and recognised in the state , and in whose service is placed , for the duration of the work , the person who intends to exercise the profession of auditor . |
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| 44 | The Government asked one of its ablest servants , John Milton , to reply ; this he did in his book Eikonoklastes [ ‘ The Image-Breaker' ] , which spiritedly commenced with the Biblical quotation , ‘ As a roaring lion and a raging bear , so is a wicked ruler over a poor people . ’ |
| 45 | There will be serious dangers , however , if the information that is set out in performance tables is clouded by footnotes and qualifications , which sometimes are advocated because they are designed to prove that whatever the differences between examination performances there is no such thing as a good school or a bad school . |
| 46 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 47 | Broadly speaking , it can be challenged in the same way as a floating charge or a preference can be challenged under the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 48 | Siward was probably already one of the richest men in Scandinavian York , as well as a useful war-leader and a forthright advisor to Canute and his heirs by the time it occurred to the Lady Emma that she might do worse than encourage him to take over Northumbria . |
| 49 | The annual budget covered the church 's central administration , including departments of social , religious and diplomatic affairs as well as a daily newspaper and a radio station . |
| 50 | ‘ Andrea and myself , as a working-class woman and a Black woman , come from those groups , and feel we should have the chance to express our ideas as much as anyone else . ’ |
| 51 | In fact the work of fracture , W , turned out to be around 10 4 J/m 2 , which , weight for weight , is at least as good as a ductile steel and a good deal better than ‘ tough ’ composites like fibreglass . |
| 52 | Such beers as a Czech Pilsner or a German Munchener are rich and complex beers brewed with pale malts , special hop varieties and a bottom-fermenting yeast strain which works at much lower temperatures than ale yeast . |
| 53 | erm Yes to a great deal erm extent erm when a new player or a new coach comes into a side , it 's very difficult at times to erm settle into a pattern or a way that you want to work with him , and erm I think now erm we 're beginning to understand that , the way he wants to play . |
| 54 | But a great deal of research and money needs to be invested when a new product and a completely new chemical comes on the market , and there 's been many examples in the past of things being released . |
| 55 | When a special event or a victory like the Nile , Trafalgar or Waterloo was to be announced , the Mail Coach and horses were decorated with laurels and a red flag floated from the roof of the coach . |
| 56 | We were to witness a different and more promising sacrifice only after we had spent many patient weeks in Bira , when a white cock and a black goat were ritually slaughtered in Sinar Surya 's hull , signifying that at last we were about to depart . |
| 57 | This is based on a true story that shocked Paris society when a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer were imprisoned after the former was ‘ accused of passing information to China after he fell in love with Mr Shi , whom he believed for 20 years to be a woman ’ . |
| 58 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |
| 59 | A transparency sent round in a cab or a special piece of artwork produced at short notice can be just as valuable as an exciting launch or a slap-up lunch . |