Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • At least five years of experience as an economist specialising in the financial sector . |
| 2 | Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future . |
| 3 | The woman who died was driving this pick-up truck when it hit an ambulance travelling in the opposite direction along the A417 , half a mile out of Cirencester . |
| 4 | Later that month , an action began in the High Court between John Lydon and Glitterbest , in which Lydon asked the High Court to render the management agreement void and appoint a receiver to sort out the Sex Pistols ' affairs and finances . |
| 5 | However , an action completed in the recent past is expressed in Irish English by a construction of the type exemplified by 39 , while standard English does not mark that semantic category ( the hot news perfect ) in the verb form at all ( see Huddleston 1984 : 143 for a summary of recent work on the semantics of tense and aspect in standard English ) . |
| 6 | De Gaulle reacted sharply , not just because the evidence against Muselier appeared flimsy , but because he interpreted the British action as an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of his organization . |
| 7 | Public outcry over what was widely seen as an attempt to intervene in the judicial process , however , caused the party to withdraw this threat almost immediately . |
| 8 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 9 | In our imaginary case , Walkertronic needs no further information and indicates an intention to defend in the following terms . |
| 10 | In effect the duty is merely an amalgam of fiduciary duties at common law requiring an agent to act in the best interests of his principal . |
| 11 | In an interview published in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 12 , Khieu Samphan , the nominal head of the Khmers Rouges , warned that if UNTAC " continue to proceed as they have done , there will be no peace in Cambodia " . |
| 12 | ‘ After he 's had an axe sunk in the opposite shoulder ? |
| 13 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 14 | Would such an engine fit in the new car 's engine bay ? |
| 15 | Twenty five signs inscribed ‘ To the Trams ’ and bearing an arrow pointing in the appropriate direction , were fixed to lamp standards in streets adjoining those served by the trams . |
| 16 | Husayn could only contemplate this option with equanimity if most of the Palestine refugees moved out of his territory — presumably back to Palestine , an issue considered in the next chapter . |
| 17 | An investigation undertaken in the past few years by the United Nations found that ‘ … in the majority of reporting agencies , computer staff … have chief responsibility for management policies relating to e-mail communications … |
| 18 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 19 | In particular , freedom to teach and to conduct research are often mentioned in the same phrase , as if the authority by which an academic engages in the one activity is exactly the same as the authority under which the other activity is undertaken . |
| 20 | An article appeared in the Nazi newspaper Danziger Vorposten claiming that the Danzig Harbour Board served only the interests of the Poles and should therefore be abolished . |
| 21 | In an article published in the early 1970s , Nicholas Tyacke argued that during the period from 1560 to 1625 there was a common predestinarian Calvinist heritage within the English church , shared by both prelates and Presbyterians alike , against which Laud and his supporters firmly set their faces in the 1630s . |
| 22 | His designs were always , as Mark Girouard put it , ‘ gentlemanly , that is , not too showy ’ , with the precision of an architect schooled in the Greek revival , whatever style he was working in . |
| 23 | Hiorne 's work in a classical idiom included two buildings of some individuality , the churches of St Anne 's , Belfast ( 1776 , demolished ) , which showed the influence of the baroque St Philip 's , Birmingham , and Tardebigge , Worcestershire ( 1777 ) , with its striking needle spire ; but it was as an architect specializing in the Gothic style that he gained a particular reputation . |
| 24 | Interest in the use of hypnosis as an anaesthetic developed in the early 1800s but declined after the discovery of ether . |
| 25 | On 9 September he sent Hanns a telegram : ‘ Committee says redesign Scarlet Woman ’ , an instruction repeated in the depressed letter already quoted . |
| 26 | More specifically , in sentences such as those above , in which an event mentioned in the first clause is explained by a reason or cause stated in a following because clause , that world knowledge includes information about what Garvey & Caramazza ( 1974 ) call the implicit causality of the verb in the first clause . |
| 27 | At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1902 , he won the premier literary award ( the chair ) for an ode composed in the traditional strict metres on ‘ Ymadawiad Arthur ’ ( The Passing of Arthur ) which established him as the precursor of a new era in Welsh literature . |
| 28 | He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government . |
| 29 | Famous carpets from Templeton 's past are being assembled for display in ‘ Glasgow 's Glasgow ’ , an exhibition staged in the vaulted arches below Central Station . |
| 30 | East of the town there is Langney , on flat marshy land , an area developed in the last twenty-five years . |