Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why ? ’ asked Antony , with a polite interest which ten minutes later had turned into the real thing . |
| 2 | He spoke without notes and sprinkled his trenchant remarks with a dry wit which some claim to glimpse in Carmina Legis , or Verses Illustrative of the Law of Scotland ( 1920 ) . |
| 3 | Hannah may have gone without most of the comforts that people take for granted , but at least she had emotional warmth and stability , wrapped as she was in the cocoon of a caring family — her mother , her grandparents , and for a little time her tragic father , all around her . |
| 4 | ‘ I was on night fire-watching when there was a terrific explosion which wrecked part of the railway line between the factory and the steelworks , ’ recounted Bill , who is now nearly 90 . |
| 5 | He talked about Elizabeth Bowen , a dear friend whose unhappy marriage had upset him . |
| 6 | ACET is a church-based organisation whose primary concern is practical care rather than counselling , and so these areas are only covered if they are raised by our clients . |
| 7 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 8 | Dr Mike Nolan , a senior lecturer in nursing research at University College , Bangor , a member of the group which made the award , said : ‘ Grip is a multi-disciplinary group whose main aim is to assist health care practitioners apply the results of research to their work in order to improve patient care . |
| 9 | If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed . |
| 10 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 11 | On 7 December last year , Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry of Hartford , Connecticut — the first African-American woman elected mayor of a major city , a progressive Democrat whose eloquent oratory and elegant clothes alike make her one of the state 's most recognisable figures — was master of ceremonies at the opening of a political campaign office on Main Street . |
| 12 | Yesterday a spokesman said : ‘ It 's a complete mystery who this man is and where he is from . |
| 13 | An in-depth study of our early land law reveal(s) the existence of a substantial body of Islamic legal principles , a historical fact which contemporary scholars find themselves in difficulty to accept , having been so engrossed with the civil law system introduced in these shores after the arrival of the English administrators towards the close of the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | How can a cultural paradigm whose main principle is de-differentiation contribute to a political culture grounded in the apparently opposite principle of difference ? |
| 15 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 16 | Instead of cooperation we have a destructive form of conflict in a social system whose very existence depends on cooperation . |
| 17 | For a few moments her still-sleepy eyes refused to focus on the dramatic black handwriting . |
| 18 | In a few minutes your eternal soul will be waiting at Hapexamendios 's door . ’ |
| 19 | Then after a few minutes it all stops . |
| 20 | There were a few houses whose wrought-iron balconies were crammed with plants : great pots of geraniums , full and dark , the flowers looking down at me like tiny faces , intently . |
| 21 | After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret . |
| 22 | We offer help to pupils with varying needs — general learning problems , specific learning difficulties , the filling of gaps caused by changing schools and , recently , the provision of extra teaching for a few children whose educational attainment is far in excess of that of their peers . |
| 23 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 24 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 25 | A further issue which this study has touched upon briefly is the nature of the involvement of the LEA . |
| 26 | In Green v Cade there was a further clause which required buyers to notify claims within three or seven days of delivery . |
| 27 | But that left open a further question which concerned Brunner deeply : what was the connection between that unique revelation and three other more general areas : the whole universe as God 's creation ; the existence of human beings as ‘ made in the image of God ’ , albeit as ‘ fallen ’ they have in some fashion lost or disfigured that ‘ image ’ ; and the ordering of human life and society by such institutions as marriage and the state , which theology had traditionally treated as divinely ordained ? |
| 28 | A further judgment which affected press practices was made on June 24 when the court ruled 5:4 that news organizations might be sued for breaking promises of confidentiality to their sources . |
| 29 | Children learn better within a clear structure which traditional methods impose upon them ’ . |
| 30 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |