Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A European Common Foreign and Security policy is thus unrelated to any military assessment of Europe 's defence needs . |
| 2 | Ram was now raising his gun as calmly as the waiter who dips his net into the tank … ah , but Ram had paused again , this time to cough and to smooth back his white moustaches which had been somewhat disarranged by the gust of air from his cough then he took aim at the gliding sepoy , there was a sudden wild foaming and thrashing of water , and the sepoy lay gasping on the turf . |
| 3 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 4 | Although the SSL continues to receive legal deposit material and some foreign periodicals on exchange via the Royal Society of Edinburgh , funding for purchases is still not at the level which the Trustees believe to be necessary for a major national scientific and business information resource . |
| 5 | He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate . |
| 6 | But we do know that while the votes were being counted Her Indoors was in the company of a notorious Tory wet and dissident . |
| 7 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 8 | In December , you hear people say , the Community was talking loftily about putting together a common European foreign and security policy ; but when the war started in January , they all went their separate ways . |
| 9 | The declaration called for the formulation of a new Slovenian constitution embodying the republic 's right ( i ) to place its own laws above those of the SFRY ; ( ii ) to monitor and control national defence activities on its soil ; ( iii ) to determine its own foreign and external policy ; and ( iv ) to create a new Slovenian legal and judiciary system . |
| 10 | MAHA Sa'ad-ul-Din Banat , a 35-year-old Syrian national and mother of four who had been sentenced to 200 lashes by the Shari'a Court of Expedient Affairs in Riyadh on 10 March 1992 , received the lashes in four instalments in a one month period between April and May . |