Example sentences of "an [adj] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is a big difference between controlling for a prior variable and finding that the original relationship disappears and controlling for an intervening one with a similar result . |
| 2 | An honest vote for Labour — or an evasive one for the Liberal Democrats , which will also help Mr Kinnock to Downing Street — signals a return to Britain 's long , tragic , doomed pursuit of a soft option . |
| 3 | Official starter Ivor Robson seldom makes mistakes but had to admit to an enforced one in the first match when instructed to let Ian Woosnam take the honour with partner Nick Faldo , playing against Curtis Strange in the opening Foursomes . |
| 4 | Standard Apaches came with a vacuum pump on the right engine and an hydraulic one on the left but most people also bought a vacuum pump for the left engine as an insurance against loss of instruments . |
| 5 | The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take . |
| 6 | ( The litter problem in the U.K generally , is an obvious one to an overseas visitor and it seems that the schools actually reinforce a bad social norm i.e. others should/will clean-up after you . |
| 7 | Carpet bedding was to become a dominant fashion in England in the 1870s , and an international one in the 1880s . |
| 8 | The period between the wars was an unhappy one for the British people in general , and particularly for the majority who belonged to the industrial working class . |
| 9 | Outside the Review the whole area of digitisation of existing research library material is an important one for the 1990s . |
| 10 | The year 1991 will be an important one in the Scottish Council 's history . |
| 11 | Under an agreement with the secretary of state , the Church Commissioners do not proceed with the demolition of a listed redundant church or an unlisted one in a conservation area without providing the opportunity for the secretary of state to hold a non-statutory public inquiry . |
| 12 | The situation is an exemplary one for a structuralist : a young critic is chided by a writer for having failed to identify the motive principle of his work , the ‘ figure in the carpet which governs every aspect of it . |
| 13 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 14 | There is a fine cross-slab by the roadside at Aberlemno in Angus , and an ornate one in the actual churchyard of the village . |
| 15 | Berghaus has a very comfortable jacket called the Chinook ( £140 ) , which has an inner lining of Windstopper , but it is not as warm as an equivalent one with a windproof outer . |
| 16 | At Mallia , the Central Court existed in the First Temple Period , with rooms ranged at least along its western side ; as at Phaistos and Knossos , the new temple was apparently preceded by an earlier one on the same site . |