Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |
| 2 | All of this is very relevant and important when considering why some places became towns and perhaps why a castle was built in a particular place , but it is not so relevant to people in an agricultural community whose main consideration would be disposition of the local resources . |
| 3 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 4 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 5 | This regretfully brought to an abrupt end his continuing work for the Building Employers Confederation as well as destroying a lifetime 's work in building up a family company . |
| 6 | Training is an on-going process which all members of staff take part in . |
| 7 | Training is an on-going process which all members of staff take part in regularly . |
| 8 | He requested her to parcel up most carefully in an oiled cloth his other gun and have it sent to him . |
| 9 | She added : ‘ Even if we do n't take an altruistic approach its clear failure to act now is merely building up a very expensive problem for the future ’ . |
| 10 | The question of ratification of treaties with Western nations opened up a gulf between the Bakufu and an imperial court whose nominal supremacy Tokugawa enemies were beginning to realize could be fruitfully exploited to the regime 's disadvantage . |
| 11 | As the woman who discovered and consequently managed the karate kicking teen-idol , she told an amazing story which twenty-eight-year-old Macchio has emphatically denied . |
| 12 | Kiefer Sutherland stars as Kevin Richter , an uncontrollable teenager whose hidden past holds the key to changing his life . |
| 13 | If Smith and Goodman are right , becoming literate ought to be an easy achievement which normal children can readily accomplish . |
| 14 | The north wind gave the day a restless feeling , and the journey stretched before us like an early map whose faint features were pleasingly unreliable . |
| 15 | These scents not only communicate the alarm to the rest of the herd but may also produce an aerial trail which other impala can follow without having to break their flight to sniff the ground . |
| 16 | Mackey , an Australian scrum-half whose short contract Warrington are trying to turn into a long one , was a constant source of danger to Widnes , and provided the final pass to enable Mark Forster to score a try in Hulmes 's absence . |
| 17 | In the same way that the human body , for instance , is an integrated whole whose individual parts serve particular ‘ needs ’ of the system ( for example , the heart performs the function of pumping blood around the body , the bowel functions to collect and evacuate solid-waste products , and so on ) , so society comprises a system of interdependent institutions each with a contribution to make to the overall stability and continuity of the whole . |
| 18 | CPRW is an environmental charity whose main aim is to safeguard the Welsh countryside from inappropriate development . |
| 19 | CPRW is an environmental charity whose main aim is to safeguard the Welsh countryside from inappropriate development . |
| 20 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 21 | Although these assorted commoners , or raznochintsy , remained a minority both within the student body and within its radical wing , they represented an important leaven whose underprivileged background and frequently severe poverty increased social awareness among their fellow students . |
| 22 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |
| 23 | The firm must identify the bank concerned ; ( 5 ) Before a firm undertakes margined transactions through an intermediate broker who is neither an authorised person nor an overseas person whose regulatory system requires segregation of client money ; ( 6 ) ( In most cases ) where the firm wishes to contract out of the client money regulations and is entitled to do so ; ( 7 ) If the firm wishes to hold client money of a private customer in a free money bank account outside the UK it must identify the country concerned and state whether the bank concerned has given the required acknowledgement as to client money status and that , if such acknowledgement had not been given , client money held with that bank might not be protected as effectively as in the UK . |
| 24 | If there is a consensus that the Constitution is the fundamental law , for example , he might argue that this consensus provides an abstract convention whose implicit extension includes the proposition that statutes must be enforced because the best interpretation of the Constitution requires this , even though many lawyers deny it . |
| 25 | By the 1870s the Primitives were strongly associated with agricultural trade unionism and the pulpit offered many an articulate labourer his first chance at public speaking . |
| 26 | A ‘ stringer ’ is n't just a freelance — it 's a correspondent based away from head office whose local contacts give him an on-the-spot usefulness which far surpasses that of a reporter sent out from head office . ’ |
| 27 | Rashid had left the flat only once , to go by taxi to the Syrian Embassy to press further his application for asylum , and on that occasion , while he had talked and drunk coffee in an inner office his two daughters had sat outside with their colouring books and crayons . |
| 28 | It was a considerable party : 2,000 men in twenty ships , and headed by an intemperate ruffian whose only qualification for replacing Balboa as Governor of Darién was that his wife was the daughter of one of Isabella 's ladies-in-waiting . |
| 29 | Hyssop contains almost one per cent of an essential oil whose medicinal action is very similar to that of garden sage . |
| 30 | Furthermore , English studies , as an aesthetic discipline which channelled access to the writer 's experience as an artist , seemed to offer a spectacle of the ineffable in which value that was at once human , English , and literary simply exhibited itself prior to any rational explanation . |