Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why ? ’ asked Antony , with a polite interest which ten minutes later had turned into the real thing . |
| 2 | He spoke without notes and sprinkled his trenchant remarks with a dry wit which some claim to glimpse in Carmina Legis , or Verses Illustrative of the Law of Scotland ( 1920 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I was on night fire-watching when there was a terrific explosion which wrecked part of the railway line between the factory and the steelworks , ’ recounted Bill , who is now nearly 90 . |
| 4 | He talked about Elizabeth Bowen , a dear friend whose unhappy marriage had upset him . |
| 5 | ACET is a church-based organisation whose primary concern is practical care rather than counselling , and so these areas are only covered if they are raised by our clients . |
| 6 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 7 | Dr Mike Nolan , a senior lecturer in nursing research at University College , Bangor , a member of the group which made the award , said : ‘ Grip is a multi-disciplinary group whose main aim is to assist health care practitioners apply the results of research to their work in order to improve patient care . |
| 8 | If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed . |
| 9 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 10 | On 7 December last year , Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry of Hartford , Connecticut — the first African-American woman elected mayor of a major city , a progressive Democrat whose eloquent oratory and elegant clothes alike make her one of the state 's most recognisable figures — was master of ceremonies at the opening of a political campaign office on Main Street . |
| 11 | Yesterday a spokesman said : ‘ It 's a complete mystery who this man is and where he is from . |
| 12 | An in-depth study of our early land law reveal(s) the existence of a substantial body of Islamic legal principles , a historical fact which contemporary scholars find themselves in difficulty to accept , having been so engrossed with the civil law system introduced in these shores after the arrival of the English administrators towards the close of the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | How can a cultural paradigm whose main principle is de-differentiation contribute to a political culture grounded in the apparently opposite principle of difference ? |
| 14 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 15 | Instead of cooperation we have a destructive form of conflict in a social system whose very existence depends on cooperation . |
| 16 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 17 | Children learn better within a clear structure which traditional methods impose upon them ’ . |
| 18 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 19 | She was n't a pioneer with rhythm or phrasing like Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby were , but she embodied and invaded lyrics and exuded a peculiar pain which tormented rock stars have tried to emulate ever since . |
| 20 | He picked up a rubber glove whose open end was sucking in brown greasy water . |
| 21 | The 30 New Zealand supermen — they are only human actually , but they have something like divine status in their own land — fly into Heathrow at lunchtime today for a 13-match tour which next month moves on to Ireland . |
| 22 | He was not just ahead of his times , but a timeless figure whose prophetic words were cast as perceptive wit . |
| 23 | Such companies , and to a lesser extent their Western competitors , are now treating workers not as units of labour power but as people with distinct personal and social needs . |
| 24 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 25 | The publican at the Red Lion was Sam 's girlfriend 's brother-in-law , a popular man whose large carpark was usually well-filled . |
| 26 | A German youth whose exaggerated features looked as though they had been moulded from foam rubber explained loudly to his companion how he needed the sun , the sun for him was a physical necessity . |
| 27 | As part of a sexual sub-culture which conservative America would rather did not exist — but fears to attack in the open — Mapplethorpe was an obvious target for the new Know Nothings . |
| 28 | This is usually a painful process which most authors secretly hate ! |
| 29 | it is worth reminding him , however , that unlike the BBC , Sky is a commercial organisation whose sole interest in cricket is with the profit which can be made from it . |
| 30 | All these schemes begin with a public meeting which local chiefs and members of parliament attend . |