Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a route which has much appeal to vendors but tends to be detested by purchasers who dislike the control placed on their ability to negotiate directly with the vendors . |
| 2 | But it could surely be argued further that a provision which mentions implied threats and does not refer to fear unaccompanied by threat must be interpreted to exclude such fear from rape . |
| 3 | It was also to become one of the biggest hits and the one provocative vinyl slap in a chart which reached new depths of blandness : Elaine Page , King , Howard Jones , Foreigner and Russ Abbot . |
| 4 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
| 5 | If Rask is a case which produces startling results in the UK , it does so simply by applying the established lines of ECJ reasoning about this Directive to new situations . |
| 6 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 7 | Visitors to Westminster Hall are amazed at Warren Hastings ' ability to survive a case which lasted seven years . |
| 8 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 9 | And then you they ask you a number of questions , often pretty stupid questions , they go away and write a bit which contains some errors , or they broadcast a bit which does n't seem quite right , and then you feel cross and you say ‘ I 'm never going to speak to that lot again . ’ |
| 10 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 11 | Combining vaginal and rectal swabs , together with the use of a selective culture medium , improves the predictive value ( positive predictive value of 67% and a negative predictive value of 92% ) but only to a level which makes mass screening viable in areas with high rates of infection . |
| 12 | For obvious reasons , financial security at a level which permits old people to join in the activities which are part of everyday society is a foundation on which much else rests . |
| 13 | The intention , to create a curriculum which gives equal opportunity to all , is admirable . |
| 14 | City accountants Peat Marwick warned : ‘ With recovery still merely a hope we fear more bankruptcies . ’ |
| 15 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
| 16 | In a decision which surprised many commentators , none of the sons and daughters of top party leaders ( the so-called " princelings " ) were elevated to the central committee . |
| 17 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 18 | A little like the curate 's egg , reckons Consensus Economics , a consultancy which polls other forecasters . |
| 19 | Being a composite they have some cleaning ability . |
| 20 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 21 | He was also to experience some awful moments and he was badly wounded in one battle by a splinter from a shell which killed two men immediately behind him . |
| 22 | Is this a gang you gave some shit ? |
| 23 | ( It is a standard procedure of politicians , when embarking upon a course which lacks logical coherence , to disarm critics and criticism by describing what they do or commend as ‘ only a first step ’ ; for who can demand logic from ‘ a first step ’ ? ) |
| 24 | All categories will compete in the same field over a course which includes two water splashes . |
| 25 | Persons of at least 21 years of age at the date of entry to a course who have useful experience to bring to university studies but who do not satisfy the entry requirements may apply for admission to an undergraduate course . |
| 26 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 27 | When a solid which contains electric charges , produced by the presence of impurities in the crystal lattice , is subjected to a steadily increasing pressure , it will give a short-lived pulse of electricity — a transient electric current — well before it ruptures . |
| 28 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
| 29 | It is difficult to believe that a writer who writes such drivel as does Paul Gallico could be so unpleasantly deluded with grandeur . |
| 30 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |