Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This discovery brings together two rapidly advancing fields by demonstrating that a tumour-suppressor gene plays an essential role in the induction of programmed cell death . |
| 2 | Helping herself , Daisy noticed he never took his eyes off the play and was now turning on the windscreen wipers to watch a dark-haired boy coax a fat roan pony down the field . |
| 3 | There 's no reason why a fellow who wants to spend a pleasant afternoon playing a decent game of rugby should have his life ruined . |
| 4 | Christmas was coming and Ellen took a part-time job in the college office to meet the extra costs of the season , and there met Nerina 's mother , a pleasant woman wearing a serviceable sari and black lace-up shoes . |
| 5 | There must be asserted , in some form or other by the Government , a reserve power to give the necessary control and organising authority , and to make sure that everyone , of every rank and condition , men and women , shall do their fair share . |
| 6 | It 's exclusive to club 18–30 , it 's near the centre of town , it has a great pool and sunbathing area , a waiter-service restaurant with a special buffet breakfast and a reputation for excellent food , a friendly bar serving a good range of snacks . |
| 7 | The Kremlin was also anxious to avoid involvement because of the potential loss of face if the USSR 's inability to send conventional military support to a friendly country undergoing a successful US action were to be made manifest . |
| 8 | Again a friendly grin split the black face . |
| 9 | ABOVE –Preconstruction' by Andrew Farmer showing a hypothetical probe approaching a black hole that is part of a binary system . |
| 10 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 11 | England have recently won a second-rate success called the Grand Slam . |
| 12 | She comes into the room like a shy actress making a bad entrance , to find us poised round the door like actors on the set . |
| 13 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 14 | We chose to express a similar region of 140k as a non-fusion polypeptide to eliminate the possible influence of a large stretch of non-homologous E.coli coding region on the properties of the fusion protein . |
| 15 | For a Scandinavian tourist visiting a Mediterranean country , the situation would be reversed , though with probably more trivial consequences . |
| 16 | ( a ) Where all or any of the principals of a multi-national partnership have a separate legal practice as foreign lawyers : |
| 17 | Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual . |
| 18 | The remains of a diamond-shaped plan overlook the windy headland . |
| 19 | The remains of a diamond-shaped plan overlook the windy headland . |
| 20 | No defence is available in respect of statutory nuisances within s.92(1) ( a ) ( b ) ( e ) or ( f ) , or to a private individual causing a statutory nuisance under s.92(1) ( c ) or ( d ) . |
| 21 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 22 | The whole event passed by smoothly finally visiting the Israeli Embassy which being up a private road caused the only slight temporary hold up . |
| 23 | A private operator won the first five franchises , but after that , the state company S J won all but one of the remaining sixteen . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it can be validly argued that it would be asking too much from a private entity to provide the same public notice that public registries have provided . |
| 25 | By contrast , a private citizen has no legal right which would give standing to seek to prevent a post office union ( a private body ) from acting illegally by boycotting mail to a foreign country . |
| 26 | This was not an offence under the Act because it does not extend to the domestic situation and a club having a private membership enjoys a private or domestic status . |
| 27 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 28 | Boil the potatoes until well done and mash with a little water to achieve a soft consistency . |
| 29 | It 's easy to get set yourself and with heated curlers , tongs and styling products better than ever before , all you need is a little practice to create the perfect style . |
| 30 | A MEMORABLE occasion deserves a memorable setting . |