Example sentences of "a [noun] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drafting of satisfactory consultancy provisions is not without difficulty : it is not always easy to predict an individual 's suitability for a consultancy until his normal retirement date is near , and younger partners may press for some overriding veto . |
| 2 | While Hogarth is much less of a presence than his aqueous predecessor , his arrival has caused Marillion to bind closer together as a unit . |
| 3 | I did n't wonder why she 'd taken to using a typewriter when her last messages to me were handwritten , and I did n't ask myself how Edouard could have talked to me all that time without mentioning there was an envelope for me . ’ |
| 4 | After marriage she took a break while her two children were small , returning later to a fresh specialisation as Research Fellow at St. Mark 's Hospital , London ( gastroenterological/ coloproctological diseases ) She has M.R.C.P. ( London ) 1950 and D.M. 1971 . |
| 5 | DROPPING your aitches is something of a crime if My Fair Lady is anything to go by , and the game that her fair ladyship the Queen was playing in last week 's Echo Memories had indeed committed that crime . |
| 6 | I 'm not as much of a self-deluder as my fellow committee members . |
| 7 | But investment tax credits , combined with tax hikes , help only capital intensive companies , and do nothing much for profitable , labour intensive ones — the ones that need help most ( people are a luxury when their future benefits can push GM into declaring the largest corporate loss in history . ) |
| 8 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Equally , an offeror company may not wish to launch a bid if its own results are poor . |
| 10 | A steward will manage the manor and My Lord Cardinal has been only too pleased to appoint a schoolmaster so your noble establishment can continue . |
| 11 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 12 | It is prosy and muddled : Plautus is wonderful ( as good a cat as your horrible dog is as a dog ) , and there are excellent aphorisms . |
| 13 | I might be able to make use of them and train to be a teacher when my own child was at school . |
| 14 | A shame since their combined votes would have toppled the eventual winner , Conservative Simon Watson . |
| 15 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 16 | I had to find it , going through her things and making a record as her grand London Lawyer instructed me ! ’ |
| 17 | City 's attackers The signs were already there for City that they might be in for a spanking when their formidable attack of Andy Cole , Leroy Rosenior and playmaker Jacki Dziekanowski were held in a tight grip in a first-half an opening 45 minutes that was marked by a spectacular 30-yard goal from Justin Channing , in the final week of his loan spell from QPR . |
| 18 | Western observers argued that Gorbachev 's stronger power base and his age ( 58 compared with Khrushchev 's 70 in 1964 ) made him less vulnerable to a coup than his reformist predecessor . |
| 19 | Citrine sometimes threatened a directive as his ultimate bargaining counter , but Area Board chairmen could call his bluff and he usually preferred to search for collective agreement . |
| 20 | Even Great Britain was , in Bismarck 's eyes , a nuisance because her foreign policy might change with each general election ; reliable agreements with her were impossible . |
| 21 | ‘ The Lady Margaret was appointed Regent by no less a person than her late husband in his will . |
| 22 | I take a taxi since my next flight leaves in an hour . |
| 23 | Some butterflies have a rear end that looks more like a head than their real heads . |
| 24 | He uses a variety of dogs for his creations , but his preferred canine poseurs are his own pets Man Ray ( as committed a surrealist as his illustrious namesake , by all accounts ) and the gorgeous , pouting Fay Ray ( the mutt on the right in the above pic ) . |
| 25 | Although it is difficult to reach firm conclusions from the small number of patients who underwent balloon counterpulsation , those few who have survived in the long term underwent such a procedure while their renal function was still normal or nearly normal and their renal state remained stable until transplantation . |
| 26 | In practice , both sets of factors probably play a role while their relative importance varies between markets . |
| 27 | A MOTHER lay dying on the floor of her home for a week while her 12-year-old son ignored her and lived it up with his pals , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 28 | On the issue of pre-1935 appeasement of Mussolini over Abyssinia he quotes from L. S. Amery 's ‘ diary ’ , which is referred to in a footnote as My Political Life , vol. 3 ( 1955 ) and also refers to two other accounts of the same events in Viscount Templewood 's Nine Troubled Years , pt. 2 ( 1954 ) , and Sir Anthony Eden 's Facing the Dictators ( 1962 ) . |
| 29 | Chant took as deep a breath as his collapsing lungs allowed . |
| 30 | My view is that a top rate of say £100 will be acceptable to members and I will be willing to pay such a rate once my financial circumstances improve . |