Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also , for instance , include a statement by a minister on the effect of a provision in a private Members Bill . |
| 2 | In the case of a sale by auction the standard special conditions which incorporate , in turn , the standard conditions can be very simply adapted to the transaction , but remember to insert , in cases to which it will be applicable , a clause providing that the sale is subject to a reserve , unless you can rely on such a provision in the standard conditions , which by reference you incorporate in the special conditions of sale . |
| 3 | It had been founded as an irregular unit for service in the Western Desert by Colonel David Stirling , then a subaltern in the Scots Guards . |
| 4 | A recession in the industrialised economies reduces demand and prices for most primary commodities ( tea , coffee , rubber , bauxite , oil , etc. ) which can have a disastrous impact on many LDCs . |
| 5 | ( On Nov. 4 the Senate had approved , against the opposition of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , the inclusion of such a referendum in the regional polls . ) |
| 6 | Darlington College has never had a winner in the national finals but course leader Alan Brookfield thinks this could be the lucky year . |
| 7 | He is like a runner in the 5000 metres who walks all the way to the bell and then tries to make up lost time by running the last lap like a 100 metre sprint finalist — not a good technique , as you can imagine . |
| 8 | Such a split in the Tory ranks had no precedent , and would only become imaginable when public outrage at Government policy was aroused to such a pitch of fury that large numbers of Conservative backbenchers felt obliged to break ranks . |
| 9 | The emergence of ecology as a science had no clear-cut links to the environmental movement that was advocating a reduction in the destructive activities required by modern civilization . |
| 10 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 11 | The system was being increasingly undermined , however , both by the growing numbers of those holding Matai titles and by a reduction in the traditional structures through which the chiefs had exercised authority . |
| 12 | Labour eventually agreed to Christian Democrat demands to end the linkage of state benefits to private-sector wages , in return for a reduction in the proposed cuts in state benefits , a commitment to increase social security payments by 3 per cent in 1992 , and provisions for the lowest income sector to receive tax concessions . |
| 13 | Your doctor will expect a slightly lower reading in the middle part of your pregnancy , followed by a rise in the later weeks . |
| 14 | At several sites surprising species such as centuary ( Centaurium erythraea ) and red bartsia ( Odontites verna ) , more associated with the countryside , play a part in the early stages of succession . |
| 15 | Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors . |
| 16 | Partly because it was increasing in numbers ; more particularly because it was seeking to gain a foothold in the rural parishes which had thus far been largely impervious to its appeal and especially because , in the era of the French Revolution , anything which seemed to pose a threat to the Church of England established by law was suspect . |
| 17 | He saw a flicker in the ice-blue eyes behind the pince-nez . |
| 18 | This room is as cold as a cabin in the frozen woods , but it is not so cold as the heart of the person to whom I gave my love , my hope , my talent . |
| 19 | His trousers come off showing a fluffy , defensive little cluster of genitalia , cowering at the prospect of a dip in the spangly waters . |
| 20 | The more energetic visitors , may be inclined to take a dip in the cooling waters of the lake itself and for this , or for leisurely days in the sun , the hotel provides a private lakeside sun terrace with sun-loungers . |
| 21 | If he did not win a majority in the individual members ' section of the ballot , he said , he would resign altogether . |
| 22 | Freud 's theory of the death wish finds a parallel in the schizophrenic experiences described by R. D. Laing , whose work had a significant impact on a number of novelists of the period ( see section 6.2 below ) . |
| 23 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 24 | Under the captaincy of McBride and the coaching skills of his Ballymena colleague Syd Millar , the Lions , with nine Irishmen in tow , won 21 of their 22 games , and were only denied a clean sweep when flanker Fergus Slattery was robbed of a try in the dying minutes of the Fourth and Final Test which ended in a 13–13 draw . |
| 25 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
| 26 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 27 | So , off you go , and I 'll be through to read you a story in a few minutes . ’ |
| 28 | I hope that there will be a crusade in the coming years to encourage more reading in every home in our country . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the mighty and majestic animal had been reduced to a pawn in the squalid affairs of men . |
| 30 | Hon. Members made a plea in the early stages of the 1979 |