Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 2 | Our concern in this chapter is , therefore , to highlight a number of considerations which a local church should bear in mind in pondering its evangelistic effectiveness and over-hauling its strategy . |
| 3 | For those youngsters legally driving their cars its a frustrating time . |
| 4 | six days a week … from dawn till dusk … from gallop to grandstand … fortunes may be won or lost at the betting shops or with the bookies … but for the stables … for the lads and lasses and trainers its a hard grind … |
| 5 | I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio . |
| 6 | In other words , it was not a straightforward rule which a national court , or even the European Court , could apply directly , but essentially a question of policy for the Council , the role of the Court being limited to checking whether the Council had overstepped the limits of its discretion . |
| 7 | They were brought in shiploads and bundled away in an institution which a Swiss newspaper recently called ‘ an antechamber of death ’ and a British journal ‘ a modern entrance to Hades ’ . |
| 8 | And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance . |
| 9 | This is why unqualified reports which cite the large , or small , number of TV channels which a coaxial cable can carry are meaningless . |
| 10 | There is so much of good that can be done if we seize the opportunities which a modern world makes available . |
| 11 | It 's time to get Britain working again sets out Labour 's programme for national recovery — the immediate action which a Labour government will take to get the economy out of recession . |
| 12 | Satisfactory though casing may be for books which a careless age does not expect to be long-lived , it can not compare in craftsmanship and durability with the old method properly practised . |
| 13 | It gives a sharper focus to an interview , helping the worker cope with the flood of reminiscence which a lonely old person may release . |
| 14 | The car itself a new Rover 3500 was far from memorable in Gloucestershire ; it was probably the only British saloon a local landowner would think of owning . |
| 15 | In order to avoid any trouble with the Warden 's forces , they decided to give Jedburgh itself a wide berth , so followed Rule Water down to its junction with Teviot at Menslaws , where they camped the night . |
| 16 | None the less , within the Review itself a particular kind of space was offered to modernism , seen especially in reviews written by Bateson ( see pp. 81–2 ) . |
| 17 | That cross by Geates What a ned ! |
| 18 | I just had to write to you , to tell the Tennis World readers what a certain , beautiful lady has done for tennis and for her supporters . |
| 19 | So I thought I 'd drop you a line through the magazine to convey my get-well-soon message and show the rest of the readership what a handsome chap you are . |
| 20 | ‘ But bearing in mind what a tough time they must have had they 're settling in remarkably well . |
| 21 | Group development might also encourage peer assessment which a contractual appraisal scheme is not likely to include . |
| 22 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 23 | It 's a success story which a new group called the Thames Valley Partnership hopes will soon be commonplace . |
| 24 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
| 25 | This chapter will discuss the main long-term contracts which a potential recording artist is likely to sign . |
| 26 | A combinatory method loses some of the prestigious closeness to scientific rigour which a feminist psychology with a conventional method retains . |
| 27 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 28 | In appropriate cases a commissioner from the Requesting State might be appointed to carry out the special method or procedure requested , e.g. , to overcome the difficulty which a civil law State may have in satisfying a Request from a common law State to take evidence under cross examination , because no judge or local lawyer in the requested State had any experience in that field . |
| 29 | Where tenure was for life only , and not by inheritance , where entry fines were not fixed by custom , it was possible for the lord , perfectly legally , to raise these to a level which a possible heir could not pay , not in the expectation of getting more money , but in the certainty that failure to pay would give him the right to evict . |
| 30 | Those eyes , like two green beetles which a squirming tattooed spider had now digested … |