Example sentences of "an [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having reviewed the scheme , an FAC Working Group recommended no change for the year commencing 1 April 1993 , but this recommendation was not accepted by the committee and the CAA has since notified AOC operators that it ‘ has it in mind ’ to raise AOC charges for operators of aircraft of less than fifteen tonnes maximum take-off weight by fifty per cent from April . |
| 2 | An assistant chief constable told a conference of senior officers : ‘ with future recruitment , the number of graduates will increase ’ . |
| 3 | These observations suggest that an acute bacterial inflammation evokes a more pronounced intestinal net fluid secretion than the inflammation caused by Nippostrongylus brasiliensis . |
| 4 | Later concerning pedestrians , she hopes that a pedestrian requiring an eight second gap to cross a stream of 600 veh/hr will not be delayed for more than 30 seconds . |
| 5 | The higher levels are ‘ collapsed ’ during an extensive pre-compilation period giving a two-dimensional graph bounded by the x ( time ) and z ( competitors ) axis . |
| 6 | The Ironbridge Gorge Museum is an extensive open-air museum embracing the buildings and industrial remains of the former cradle of the Industrial Revolution , centred on Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) , now part of the new town named after the great civil engineer Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) who was once Shropshire 's Surveyor of Public Works . |
| 7 | If cleaning paintbrushes is one of those decorating tasks you loathe , you will be interested in the Acorn Multihead , an innovative new produce featuring a comfortable paintbrush handle with interchangeable pure bristle heads . |
| 8 | Unless one posits an inherent human tendency to comprehend the world in binary terms , one has to look for more sociological explanations . |
| 9 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 10 | Each interview is concluded with an example of the poet 's work , which together with an introductory biographical note adds a sense of homeliness to cushion the often impassioned and intellectual rhetoric that arises . |
| 11 | During the meeting , Grant had raised the possibility of the sect 's operating an armed outside patrol to circle the perimeter fence , in view of the large drugs shipment Sherman had seen on the night of his suicidal attack . |
| 12 | The Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) federal Prime Minister , Brian Mulroney , eventually overcame this obstacle by using an arcane constitutional device to create a PCP majority in the upper chamber ; however , the Liberals used procedural and judicial processes to delay the tax legislation so that it did not receive its royal assent until Dec. 17 . |
| 13 | Barrows argued that geography should concentrate on the study of the association between man and environment , it should concentrate on themes which lead towards synthesis with an economic regional geography occupying a central place , but that specialized branches , including geomorphology , climatology and biogeography should be separated from the parent subject . |
| 14 | The first activity north-of-the-border in the Men 's Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy saw Bridge of Allan , led by Scottish No. 3 Colin McGill , come through to defeat Whitecraigs , Glasgow by an emphatic 3–0 margin to earn the right to meet the winner of the North of England region for a place in the National British event 's Area play-offs . |
| 15 | And in fact it was an old woollen mill called the . |
| 16 | An old stable block houses the Garden Centre Shop with an exclusive range of products , gifts and plants . |
| 17 | In the seaward wedge of Fife known as the East Neuk — neuk being an old Scots word meaning a corner — there was busy medieval trade with the Continent , still remembered in the crow-stepped gables of many Flemish-style houses , and a wide-ranging herring fishery . |
| 18 | ‘ What on earth are we doing here ? ’ she muttered , staring up at the familiar sight of an old converted warehouse overlooking the Thames . |
| 19 | An Old English Sheepdog needing a minimum of an hour 's grooming a day sold to a mother of four children who barely has time to brush her own hair ? |
| 20 | Bde. in the Gulf is ( 5 ) , 2⅝ in. wide — a revival of the wartime shape , in black on pale fawn or khaki ; but somebody forgot the jerboa 's eye , and one foresees the inter-brigade humour , with consequent violence , on the theme of ‘ the blind 4th … ’ ( 6 ) , 1½in. wide , is the tank commander 's patch worn since spring 1990 in The Queen 's Royal Irish Hussars : an emerald green shamrock bearing a black tank , on a dark piper green square . |
| 21 | The middle of 1917 saw the party at its lowest ebb , but the demands of an approaching general election produced a recovery . |
| 22 | An exciting eighth frame saw the Scot compile a break of 69 before he found trouble after missing a snooker off the final red . |
| 23 | Between these two , an unequivocal dividing line made the plateaux of Leon and Burgos a kind of no-mans-land , across which the two forces ranged more or less in a continual dispute until the middle of the tenth century . |
| 24 | An interesting old building containing the Camera Obscura which provides tourists with fascinating instantaneous moving pictures of the city . |
| 25 | The outcome was a programme for ‘ The Living Wage ’ which called for an incoming Labour Government to undertake a massive redistribution of income through family allowances , better social services and increased social security benefits , all paid for by taxing the , rich . |
| 26 | Cognito , the women 's fashion chain , recently fitted an electronic tagging system to combat a chronic shoplifting problem at its store in Windsor . |
| 27 | Teesside magistrates heard how the two Middlesbrough men used an electronic tagging device to track a terrier as it bore down on badgers in a well known sett . |
| 28 | An unfamiliar young woman entered the sauna and , the moment she walked through the door , began to order everyone about ; she made them all sit closer together , then picked up a pitcher and poured water on the stones . |
| 29 | The difficulty lies in providing an adequate theoretical framework to analyse the incidence of taxation under imperfect competition and in the presence of disequilibrium . |
| 30 | She took the first set 6-4 but a sideways stretch to make contact with an English passing shot had the Belfast girl in trouble . |