Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb base] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , ten years later , the discovery of a body among the pinnacles and much lower on the ridge , the battered remains of a tent contain a handwritten notebook , promise to throw new light on the deaths of two of Britain 's most talented post-war mountaineers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Unlike sharks , bony fish as a rule have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction . |
| 4 | Social order presupposes that members of a group have a common knowledge of rules . |
| 5 | Think of at least two different contexts in which the use of each of the following might become symbolic : a book a goblet a photograph a necklace a fob watch a dried flower . |
| 6 | So just just small movements of the feet I 'm not talking well there 's a classic one I had when I was at college we had a lecturer imagine a big lecture theatre you know two hundred people and there was there was a board and he presented his lecture like this , plenty of foot movement but he presented his lecture like and he just walked up and down . |
| 7 | Although interest rates are set to jump after reinvestment in the US and on new plant , earnings of 17.3p , against 17.7p , a share provide a fair base for the two successor companies . |
| 8 | Although interest rates are set to jump after reinvestment in the US and on new plant , earnings of 17.3p , against 17.7p , a share provide a fair base for the two successor companies . |
| 9 | The accounts of the National Health Service as a whole offer a good example . |
| 10 | The common objective behind all three projects is to analyse how changes in the society as a whole have a different impact in different areas , such that the same process may come to have very different consequences according to local-level variations . |
| 11 | It seems quite definite that the stars in a cluster have a common origin , and have remained as a group — though the gravitational pulls of non-cluster stars will be disruptive ; eventually the cluster will lose its separate identity and will be dispersed , though the process is bound to take hundreds of millions of years at least . |
| 12 | This makes the determination of shear modulus by a torsion test a difficult task and it requires careful experimentation . |
| 13 | It can not be stressed too strongly that the police in a democracy have a positive duty to facilitate the enjoyment of freedoms . |
| 14 | When a Government have a serious problem that has lasted 22 years , cost billions of pounds in security and military provisions and caused immeasurable suffering to some people , it is reasonable to assume that they have a long-term policy for creating lasting peace and ending the waste . |
| 15 | and , and er she would sort of say oh and here 's a theatre make a wee bit effort yes that might be the answer |
| 16 | This demonstration shows how even very small amounts of extra rudder in a turn cause a bad wing drop , whereas using too little is a safer fault because it inhibits the stalling characteristics . |
| 17 | A box remember a cardboard box . |
| 18 | From under the hunched shoulders and clutching arms a broken voice emerged in a stammering howl a stray dog might have launched into the night after company in its loneliness . |
| 19 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 20 | A COUPLE plan a sponsored walk to raise funds for a new counselling group for bereaved parents . |
| 21 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 22 | Calculations based on the A gene frequency of 0.21 in the UK population and the presence of 2 ABO genes a patient indicate a random probability of this association of only 2.4% . |
| 23 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 24 | The regional policies that have been developed , refined and improved in Britain in the past quarter of a century owe a great deal to the foresight of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deciding to send Lord Hailsham , as he is now , to the north-east to make some progress . |
| 25 | Would not such a visit provide a glorious opportunity to point out that the assisted places scheme — among other major educational advances — would be abolished under a Labour Government , thereby denying many bright children in the Duchy the opportunity of a first-rate education ? |
| 26 | Members of a class develop a common identity , recognize their shared interests and unite , so producing class solidarity . |
| 27 | One of the most cited examples of such research is an unpublished study by Johnson and Scott ( 1976 ) where subjects waiting for an experiment overhear a violent argument next door followed by a person coming through the room carrying a bloodied letter opener . |
| 28 | Members of an organisation have a residual power to supervise the implementation of the constitutive treaty through the organisation . |
| 29 | This sort of angle gives an arcade machine a good run for its money ! |
| 30 | Should a phase generally be gratifying he will successfully pass through that one to the next ; should it be frustrating he will remain fixated at this stage and as an adult manifest a particular personality constellation , such as the ‘ oral character ’ , distinguished by such features as excessive dependence , passivity and ‘ mouth habits ’ . |