Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1789 , for example , an unsigned letter received by Sir Thomas Dundas advised the member of parliament that a Mr. Glen , a freeholder of Stirlingshire , would be greatly obliged if he could obtain introductions to colonels of regiments who might be induced to give the enterprising Mr. Glen the clothing contracts for their units . |
| 2 | Interior Minister Col. Manuel José Antonio was arrested on Aug. 11 for questioning in connection with an attempted coup uncovered on June 24 and said to have been planned for June 25 ( the 16th anniversary of Mozambique 's independence ) . |
| 3 | Robbie sank down on his bunk , feeling an absurd desire to burst into tears . |
| 4 | It was itself a direct product of her involvement in an imperialist system riven by competition for markets . |
| 5 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 6 | If we take account of the changing age structure of the population and the rising relative costs of the elderly , NHS expenditure on an age-weighted basis fell in volume terms in the 1980s . |
| 7 | The road leading into the pleasant village of Austwick branches from the A65 and at a fork at the north end of the village a left turn , unsignposted , climbs through a leafy avenue into Crummackdale , reaching open country where it is crossed by an unsurfaced lane coming from Clapham . |
| 8 | The journey started easily enough , the way going up a track that in summer is an unsurfaced road used by tourists . |
| 9 | Where the surfaced road ends at the farm an unsurfaced trackway leads to Little Langdale ( 3 miles ) from where you can follow the main route to Elterwater ( 1.5 miles ) . |
| 10 | IN an historic decision to break with Moscow , the Lithuanian Communist Party voted yesterday to declare itself an independent party by more than 5 to 1 , well above the two-thirds majority needed . |
| 11 | In an historic decision to break with Moscow , the Lithuanian Communist Party has voted by more than 5-1 to declare itself an independent party . |
| 12 | The family silver collection includes the usual trophies and coasters , but there is also an historic halberd belonging to Edward King , an ancestor 's cousin whose death at sea in 1637 was remembered by Milton in his poem ‘ Lycidas ’ . |
| 13 | That there should have been a Navy League , a Tariff Reform League , and an Anti-Socialist Union filled with Conservatives was an indication that there were many Conservative supporters who felt that the Conservative party was not doing its job properly . |
| 14 | His childhood , for instance , became an infinitely fictitious country , now like Gorki 's Lower Depths , now like the Chicago stockyard slums , now like an occupied country burgeoning with guerilla units , now a place of giants , spotless princesses , poetry and song . |
| 15 | Set to kick off the programme at MAC on Saturday 29 September is the British premiere of MASALA an irreverent tragi-comedy set amongst Toronto 's middle-class Asian community starring Saeed Jaffrey . |
| 16 | He and an Iranian doctor flew from Paris as directly as they could . |
| 17 | An Iranian delegation led by Vellayati visited Damascus on March 7-8 and was reportedly assured by Syrian President Assad that Iran would have a significant role in a post-war Gulf security order . |
| 18 | This is trapped between the inner and outer shell with an insulating filling divided into compartments for greater efficiency . |
| 19 | Between Dec. 31 and Jan. 2 several thousand Azerbaijani rioters pulled down or set fire to fences and other installations along a 137-km stretch of the border between the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( an Azerbaijani exclave separated from Azerbaijan proper by a strip of Armenian territory ) and Iran . |
| 20 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 21 | Fourth , twenty-nine to forty-eight months after acquiring HIV-1 infection , our 3 patients show no signs or symptoms of progression to AIDS , which contrasts with the concept that individuals who experience an acute illness associated with seroconversion have a more rapid progression to AIDS . |
| 22 | Strangles is an acute disease caused by infection with a bacteria called Streptococcus Equi . |
| 23 | In patients with a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch or with an acute complication caused by gall stones , the gall bladder was electively decompressed by percutaneous cholecystostomy , carried out under local anaesthesia , for seven to 10 days before the stones were removed . |
| 24 | Often an acute complaint begins with nausea and vomiting with a clean tongue . |
| 25 | When he answered questions in the House on 20November , my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary showed an understandable reluctance to move towards recognition of Croatia . |
| 26 | As we saw in the previous section , there is an understandable reluctance to move against firms that have competed successfully and won market share . |
| 27 | The long evolution of the natural system , further evolved by man 's practical management , has given brooks and rivers individual characters as distinctive as their names , names which invest the Ordnance Survey map with an idiosyncratic quality ranging from poetry to comedy : the Windrush , the Swift , the Wagtail Brook , the Mad Brook , the Hell Brook , the Piddle , the Wriggle … |
| 28 | Asked to comment on the Independent 's report that Libyan terrorists had put the bomb aboard Flight 103 by means of an unaccompanied bag sent from Malta , Aviv himself thought it was yet another attempt to distract attention from the truth . |
| 29 | The 11 tourists , with a lot of help from the four friends who made up last night 's team , gave an astounding display to inflict on France their first defeat here for seven years . |
| 30 | It seems that the average level of technical success in Japan is high , which would correspond to general perception , with individualism , where present , seen as an undesirable influence detracting from realization of company policy . |