Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , small peels , or cut-out sections of large ones , can be mounted between two standard microscope slides for examination with a low power binocular or stereomicroscope . |
| 2 | A combined summer fair and car boot sale will be held at the Carmel Comprehensive School , The Headlands , Darlington , tomorrow . |
| 3 | In several fables the kelpie appears as a handsome young prince , who lures maidens to a watery fate worse than death . |
| 4 | It 's a darn sight heavier than Vixen , and they come from North London too ! |
| 5 | washing up , but it was a darn sight better than paper |
| 6 | Once I had desired a world made good and right and pure , as I conceived , by a Liberal statesman benevolent and omnipotent . |
| 7 | But when the judge , and the Lord Chief Justice , express their views on the period a particular prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , they are involved in part of the same consideration as they would be when deciding a proper determinate sentence for a serious offence other than murder . |
| 8 | I 'm a little teapot short and stout |
| 9 | ( 5 ) If a company issuing shares for a non-cash asset is listed , the London Stock Exchange normally requires the acquisition to be approved by its shareholders if it is a Super Class 1 or Class 4 transaction . |
| 10 | Similarly , if the company subscribing for new shares is listed , it may require its shareholders ' approval if the subscription constitutes a Super Class 1 or Class 4 transaction . |
| 11 | In addition , the bidder may be required to despatch a circular to its own shareholders and , if it is a Super Class 1 or Class 4 transaction , to seek their prior approval to the transaction . |
| 12 | In order to create a mark-to-space ratio greater than unity ( i.e. output high/low times unequal ) the resistor/diode arrangement shown in Fig. 4 is used . |
| 13 | In Britain the social and intellectual origins of the early surveys gave them a particular emphasis summarisable as generality and factuality . |
| 14 | On the one hand , placing all the above temporal adjuncts in theme position would be highly marked in Dutch ; on the other hand , changing the thematic structure of the original may disrupt the natural development of the text — unless the translator finds a thematic element other than time which can provide a consistent point of orientation . |
| 15 | Carbon dioxide is the most soluble of the gases because as it dissolves it does n't just go through a physical solution it goes through a chemical conversion such that carbon dioxide dissolving in water forms carbonic acid which , in water will dissociate into a hydrogen iron and a hydrogen bicarbonate iron which can further dissociate this is why I 've got a nice wide blackboard and you 've only got a piece of A four paper so you end up with a carbonate iron two hydrogen ions This system is a dynamic equilibrium . |
| 16 | Also exempt would be a contract which could or should have been governed by one of the systems of law in the UK , where s 27(2) ( b ) does not apply , and the parties have chosen a foreign proper law for a genuine reason other than evasion of the UCTA ( eg because the other party was a foreigner who insisted on using the law of his own jurisdiction as the governing law of the contract ) . |
| 17 | We might not have won but a tie is a whole lot better than defeat . " |
| 18 | ‘ Because even if my personal feelings were a whole lot warmer than hatred , I hardly know you . ’ |