Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a table at one end where a principal officer and a couple of others sat overseeing the whole lot . |
| 2 | But most thanks are due to all those fellow hacks who provided ideas , anecdotes and scurrilous rumours for no greater reward than a kindly word and a half of best bitter . |
| 3 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 4 | I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels , but if I have no love my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell . |
| 5 | Fifth , it is a continuous or long term process rather than a one-shot exercise or a brief episode in the life of the school . |
| 6 | There was no impetus to develop anything more sophisticated than a spoken announcement or a separate piece of paper packed into the box . |
| 7 | But that is what the arrangement was : an alliance rather than a consolidated interest or a genuinely shared culture . |
| 8 | If the indices are raised , say , from 2 to , then the closed curve produced has more character than a simple rectangle or a simple ellipse … it becomes a superellipse . |
| 9 | There is flexibility in the system and , rather than a dogmatic attitude and a refusal to change , there is co-operation between parents and the school . |
| 10 | With no more than a curt nod and a : ‘ Come Phoebe ! ’ she hooked her arm through her sister 's and swept her from the kitchen . |
| 11 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 12 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 13 | Believe me , when you are hungry , really hungry , so that your stomach clings to your backbone , nothing is more tasty than a succulent rat or a well-roasted leg of cat ! ] |
| 14 | Many an interesting find requires no more than a wet hand and a sharp pair of eyes . |
| 15 | Colin McRae says that when the gear box is working properly , it should be better than a manual change because a driver can make mistakes . |
| 16 | Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Saggers escaped with little more than a broken elbow and a neck injury after falling from the 22nd floor of flats in Salford , Greater Manchester , on Thursday night . |
| 17 | Now it is true that all these examples of Christian virtue had other things to offer than a rigorous asceticism and a rather overt and physical way of acting this out . |
| 18 | You must wait at that depth , within 0.5 metres , until a shallower depth or a new no-stop time is indicated . |
| 19 | If a sole trader or a partnership goes bankrupt the sole trader or partners respectively are fully liable for the debts of the business . |
| 20 | If the houses are bought by the council then the occupants remain secure tenants , but if a private landlord or a housing association becomes the new owner then occupants become assured tenants . |
| 21 | In English spelling , if a grammatical word and a lexical word sound the same , the grammatical word tends to have the shorter spelling. : e.g. for , four ; by , buy ; in , inn ; to , two ; I , eye ; etc . |
| 22 | The nimblest escapees hopped across the heads of the living and the dead , till a twisted ankle or a gasping angry hand brought them down . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After a cold bath and a trickling shower I fell fast asleep , before lunch , on the simple but comfortable iron bedstead . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |