Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big difference of course between Designaknit Professional and a charting device , is that Designaknit Professional is a computer program rather than a knitting machine attachment . |
| 2 | The cheque for Action Research for the Crippled Child was presented at a reception in the Mayor 's Parlour in Reigate on 19th March 1986 and a representative from Age Concern will be coming to the A.G.M. to receive their cheque from our President , Lady Braithwaite . |
| 3 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 4 | Picks : either a Tortex 74 or a Clayton 74–77 . |
| 5 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |
| 6 | The government would end its support for the programme , amounting to some £13 million annually , in March 1993 because a " fast-breeder reactor was unlikely to become commercially viable until 2030 at the very earliest " , he told the House of Commons . |
| 7 | The daughter opens and closes the play on a swing , her hair free but a soundtrack of synthesised chords and foundry clatter emphasising this is no Fragonard . |
| 8 | Windows 3.1 requires at least a 80286 processor , 1MB of memory , a hard disc with 10 MB free and a DOS of 3.1 or later . |
| 9 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 10 | Mussolini was the more hesitant ; having failed to respond to two telegrams from Franco requesting aid in the form of military or civilian aircraft , the Italian dictator eventually succumbed to the more flattering blandishments of the exiled Alfonso XIII and a high-level monarchist delegation . |
| 11 | Four pounds we 've taken is frequent cash and a pound each and a pound at dinner time . |
| 12 | When a candidate is preparing to be interviewed ‘ on air ’ , there is usually a period of five to 10 minutes before the interview proper when a live satellite link will be sent back to network headquarters . |
| 13 | Theorem 1.2.5 If a , b c ε Z are such that |
| 14 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 15 | The textbase STATLT holding the statutes for England has been developed and refined in a series of projects since 1980 and at the start of the project described here already provided a very detailed definition of the data structure [ 1 ] , full text-searching facilities , symbolic addressing in the manner of Figure 2 and a multi-valued attribute marg-note-xref in each text unit to record cross-references made to other parts of the text [ 23 ] . |
| 16 | In agreement with this idea several groups have recently shown that this site does indeed represent a functional binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 12–14 ) and we have demonstrated that it can bind both the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and a novel octamer binding protein expressed in cervical cells ( 15 ) . |
| 17 | The symmetric T network of figure 8.2(d) comprising two equal resistances R 2 and a different resistance R 1 is therefore also suitable for the purpose . |
| 18 | They were resumed on Jan. 22 after a series of compromises had been agreed , including live radio coverage of the talks . |
| 19 | Ten runners-up will receive a three kilo bag of Omega Tasty and a lead . |
| 20 | In a glacial cirque basin 48 m above sea level and 800 m from the shore , it has a surface area of 15 000 m 2 and a mean depth of 3.4 m . |
| 21 | It lies in two adjoining basins 4 m above sea level and 200 m from the shore , with a surface area of 45 000 m 2 and a mean depth of 2.0 m . |
| 22 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 23 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 24 | Charles Nupen , a strike mediator , announced on Jan. 26 that a settlement between the two sides had been reached whereby SATS agreed to recognize SARHWU and to negotiate wages and conditions of service with the union in areas where it obtained registrations under the Labour Relations Act . |
| 25 | The State Council spokesman , Yuan Mu , said on Jan. 10 that a policy of " leniency " was being adopted in the trials , which were closed to foreign observers . |
| 26 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 27 | The price has doubled since Iraq invaded Kuwait and now it 's going up fast though with traders convinced that a war in the Gulf is inevitable . |
| 28 | You 're never alone with Club 18–30 because a Clubrep is always nearby 24 hours a day . |
| 29 | He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness . |
| 30 | This is labour intensive and a suitable flat roof site has to be found . |