Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the firm , Twinix 's increased security and fault tolerance will allow an 80486 system to behave as a multi-processing box , offering linear power increases depending on the number of CPUs . |
| 2 | There is a very useful collection of 111 vessels of the first half of the first century under ‘ Belgic Verulamium ’ ; a group of 18 vessels from the filling of an unfinished well-shaft dated by a coin of Pius ( 145 — 161 ) ‘ lost in fair condition ’ , and a stamp of the samian potter GERMINVS who is also found on the Antonine Wall ( 142 — 163 ) ; a pit group ( Pit 6 , Insula V ) of 14 vessels with a coin of Pius ( 154 — 155 ) ; 9 vessels from Triangular Temple , from the filling between two floors of the courtyard ; there follows 9 more vessels , from different places , and 15 predating the S.E. gate , and finally , there are 7 from Pit 5 in building IV , considered as late fourth and possibly fifth century . |
| 3 | An extremist view expressed by a twentieth-century artist is what Matisse had to say about his responses to murals by Giotto . |
| 4 | A seven-member commission had the job of ranking the candidates on the basis of their scientific qualifications and on their performance at an oral examination consisting of a discussion of their scientific work and an academic lesson . |
| 5 | Although Jonadab did not believe in the old country superstition that an elder bush planted by a house kept away witches , he was a firm believer that it deflected lightning during a storm . |
| 6 | The rest of the journey , not least an eight hour wait for a connection in Los Angeles , was not , I have to admit , so memorable or pleasing . |
| 7 | It shows an earnest-looking individual gazing at a sunset vista of sea and mountains . |
| 8 | Such individuals were to be the standard-bearers of an agricultural revolution based on a farming system which overcame the limitations of African soils by the scientific rotation of crops and their integration with livestock . |
| 9 | A recent application for an agricultural cottage made by a nearby resident was turned down . |
| 10 | While there was a cultural aspect to this battle ( the Telagu people faced discrimination as a linguistic minority ) it is stressed that the struggle was focused on the conditions of an agricultural economy organised around a system of landlords and tenants . |
| 11 | At home and abroad , Mr Gorbachev has an awful lot to lose from a fight . |
| 12 | Half of the furniture and furnishings however of the twenty-five room Château de Saint-Paul en Cornillon ( an eleventh-century castle perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Loire near Lyon , estimated at FFr20 million and on sale separately through a Paris notaire ) went unsold , with one-third in terms of value being bought in . |
| 13 | ‘ Dormant ’ seems an odd word to apply to a wetland of acknowledged international importance , and ‘ Vibrant ’ an even odder way of describing the possible flooding of that with polluted river water . |
| 14 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 15 | The atmosphere was of an end-of-term party given by a headmaster in his study for the prefects . |
| 16 | They seem to be using repro-antique furniture : and remember that an 1850 sideboard looked like a repro in 1850 . |
| 17 | Often an entranced medium acts as a ‘ dictation machine ’ under direct control . |
| 18 | It seemed an unnecessary thing to have with a harpsichord . |
| 19 | At the top an arched door opened into a grand marble hall with an elegant horseshoe staircase . |
| 20 | In its first declared objective for sending troops , i.e. the protection of Saudi Arabia against possible Iraqi invasion , the USA found legitimacy under Article 51 of the UN Charter which affirmed " the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence , if an armed attack occurs against a member of the organization , until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain peace and international security " . |
| 21 | The accident happened near Tewkesbury when an articulated lorry collided with a road sweeper . |
| 22 | It does not include an articulated trailer used as a store despite its having electric power , steps up to it , and lockable shutters : Norfolk Constabulary v Seekings [ 1986 ] Crim LR 167 . |
| 23 | An interim government supported by a regional peace-keeping force ( ECOMOG — the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group ) was announced in November [ see p. 37908 and below ] . |
| 24 | The answer he arrives at is a ‘ constitutional democracy ’ which comprises a government which preserves equal basic liberties and promotes equality of opportunity and an economic system based on a market mechanism . |
| 25 | In the face of an economic climate characterised by a higher degree of " uncertainty " , a greater volatility in demand for their output and increased pressure to reduce labour costs to a minimum , employers are seeking to build in to their workforces an element of " numerical flexibility " . |
| 26 | A leader of Socialist Left , a radical pressure group , said the confirmation in office of the old team was ‘ a serious mistake , because it signals the endorsement of an economic policy criticised by a lot of people ’ . |
| 27 | A leader of Socialist Left , a radical pressure group , said the confirmation in office of the old team was ‘ a serious mistake , because it signals the endorsement of an economic policy criticised by a lot of people ’ . |
| 28 | We can legitimately ask what does a senior official based in Whitehall and acting as a policy adviser to a minister have in common with an administrative officer working in a local branch of the Department of Social Security other than the fact that they are both civil servants ? |
| 29 | When it receives an acoustic signal transmitted from a range of up to 40 km , the weapon jettisons its ballast and rises to just below the sea surface . |
| 30 | The mean is an unstable statistic influenced by a small proportion of the population with large numbers of partners ; sampling strategies may under-represent minorities with multiple partners ( for example , prostitutes ) ; and sexual partnerships occur outside the sampled population through migration and travel . |