Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a poem like the ‘ Express ’ I believe we are dealing with a very involved , indeed fanatical , view of the journey , movement and stately presence of a train which seems to overpower not just the author himself but also the very universe and natural world in which it exists . |
| 2 | Two hundred years after the Declaration of the Rights of Man took place in France , 200 years after that historic announcement of tolerance and emancipation , we can still see the practice of the most odious and cruel despotism by a man who is the execration of humankind , who is directly and personally responsible for crimes against humanity , and crimes against justice . |
| 3 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 4 | It is equally possible though that she will show no signs whatever of anger in her grief and instead may become apathetic and drained of all energy and normal drive for a time . |
| 5 | My attitude to doctors has been severely changed since then by having a kidney stone diagnosed as psychosomatic and ulcerative colitis as a stomach upset , so that I am far from reverential and have occasionally flirted with contempt unfairly . |
| 6 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 7 | These resource problems , coupled with the widespread fear of corporate embarrassment , have virtually removed the traditional threat of discovery , prosecution and possible imprisonment as a deterrent to aspiring fraudsters . |
| 8 | In orthopaedic surgery , even the air within the theatre is cleansed to protect the patient against infection and possible rejection of a prosthesis . |
| 9 | His offence was not flagitiousness but the vulgarity , ostentation , and political inexperience of a parvenu . |
| 10 | Only the most severe conflict where the territorial integrity and political independence of a State is threatened can justify interference with third party communication rights through strategic international canals . |
| 11 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 12 | Weber saw capitalism as characterised by an emphasis on work and activity and highlighted the effect this had on the moral as well as the economic and political development of a society . |
| 13 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 14 | An annex to the communiqué , based on a paper prepared by the Irish presidency , stated the objective of political union to be " the transformation of the Community from an entity mainly based on economic integration and political co-operation into a union of a political nature , including a common foreign and security policy " . |
| 15 | In his opening address to delegates , De Marco said that people looked to the UN for moral and political guidance for a resolution of the Gulf crisis . |
| 16 | The Catholics , having come so far in undermining the old Orange State , were not easily going to be satisfied , and the urban working-class Protestants were not about to relinquish fifty years of social and political superiority without a fight . |
| 17 | This scenario brought out all de Gaulle 's fears of being dragged by military and political integration into a war that France did not wish to fight . |
| 18 | North Korea 's proposals concentrated upon reducing military and political confrontation as a prerequisite to seeking improvements in the economic , cultural or social spheres . |
| 19 | It was this subordination of the social and political value of a newspaper to commercial priorities that so exercised politicians and helped get the second and third Royal Commissions on the Press set up in 1961 and 1974 . |
| 20 | Specific topics being addressed are those which have been suggested as a possible legacy of the dispute , such as irreconcilable bitterness between former working and former striking miners and their families in a ‘ split ’ community ; permanent disaffection from the police and from the institutions of legal and political authority as a whole as a result of experiences within striking communities ; and changing family relationships as a result of the mobilization of women during the dispute . |
| 21 | We transiently expressed several cDNAs in mammalian cells , then assayed both cell lysates and conditioned medium in a Schwann cell proliferation assay . |
| 22 | What is clear is that either through the use of broadband distribution or by means of data compression-decompression , multimedia will play an important and innovative role in a range of online applications in the 1990s . |
| 23 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 24 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 25 | The body responds to both physical and emotional trauma by a phenomenon known as shock . |
| 26 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 27 | Rather , we take some linguistic and situational detail as a cue , form a general hypothesis and then try to build into that scaffolding . |
| 28 | Those economic changes , in turn , have implications for the changing urban and regional structure of a country . |
| 29 | They included : the need for international and regional supervision of a ceasefire ; proper political guarantees for the guerrillas ; an end to guerrilla attacks on the civilian population and on the economic infrastructure ; the need for the business community to commit itself to the peace process ; presentation by the government of the Second Geneva Protocol to Congress ; and the continued existence of the Advisory Commission on Public Order . |
| 30 | The coppicing produced wooden poles and rails for firewood , fencing , implement making , constructional work such as wattles , and small-size material for a host of uses around the farmstead and house . |