Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she was nineteen or twenty she might have changed her views about such an austere future . |
| 2 | He spoke brilliantly without notes for half an hour . |
| 3 | The enabling technologies for such an information and communications centre are already more or less in place . |
| 4 | It may be that we are becoming a more ‘ criminal ’ nation as the increase in crime rates would suggest , but this can not just be assumed and it is important to be aware of other possible reasons for such an increase . |
| 5 | The reasons for such an assumption were made quite clear during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 6 | The protection for the person called upon to produce documents lies , thus , not in a limitation by category of documents ( ‘ reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge ’ ) but in the fact that the applicant must satisfy the court that , after balancing all the relevant factors , there is a proper case for such an order to be made . |
| 7 | The Act made provision for such an office , which has now been established and has already contributed to increased efficiency in the division . |
| 8 | Sir Thomas , who set great store on his cultural activities , ’ trying to keep the sarcasm from her voice , ‘ considered he would be the best chairman for such an important event . ’ |
| 9 | Being adequately prepared with contingency plans for such an eventuality is about the most you can do . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister 's undertaking to move swiftly to the market economy was given tangible form on July 20 , 1990 , in the presentation to parliament of bills to create the legal framework for such an economy and to turn the great majority of state-owned businesses into autonomous enterprises and companies with share capital . |
| 11 | This represents in our view a major gap in the strategic policy framework for such an extensive rural county and one which is becoming increasingly in need of filling . |
| 12 | It was not simply the principle of such an analysis being employed as a means of over-seeing their activities , they also objected to the ‘ league tables ’ ( as they called them ) on the grounds that they were an inaccurate and misleading data base for such an analysis , given the nature of the field man 's work : |
| 13 | Why , then , when people speak with such apparent honesty about such an important issue , do we feel we are drowning beneath cataracts of monologue ? |
| 14 | On October 19 1988 the Home Secretary issued directives to the BBC and IBA ‘ to refrain from broadcasting any matter which consists of or includes — any spoken words , whether in the course of an interview or discussion or otherwise by a person who appears or is heard … where ( a ) the person speaking … represents or purports to represent [ any organisation proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1984 or the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act 1978 and Sinn Fein , Republican Sinn Fein and the Ulster Defence Association ] or ( b ) the words support or solicit or invite support for such an organisation ’ . |
| 15 | To my mind , any council which actively engenders support for such an organisation is in breach of the trust and duty placed in them by the electorate . ’ |
| 16 | Prior further claims that union support for such an industrial policy was a central plank of the social contract , which therefore ‘ represented the first British attempt within a framework of parliamentary democracy to build in a process of extra-parliamentary mobilisation around the policies of a Labour government ’ ( ibid. , p. 4 ) . |
| 17 | Another mechanism which has previously been considered important is the repression of emotional events ( Freud , 1915/1957 ) , although there is some support for such an effect in the long term studies of personal memories discussed later , repression as a mechanism has received relatively little attention in the recent literature in cognitive psychology . |
| 18 | There is some judicial support for such an approach ( see per Lord Diplock in Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 , at p851 ) . |
| 19 | Locked in : An elderly woman was stuck in the Superloo in Crook for half an hour , a local trader has claimed . |
| 20 | I feel a bit sorry for them , having come all the way from Southend , to your place , and er , being left ringing the doorbell for half an hour . |
| 21 | It may well be that the property does not have the benefit of main drainage and this will lead to the further enquiry as to arrangements for septic tank drainage , whether or not that septic tank drains onto neighbouring property and , if so , what rights are in existence for such an arrangement . |
| 22 | As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack . |
| 23 | Mr Berge anticpated , making it clear that he could see no necessity for such an attitude . |
| 24 | I mean I could quite easily delegate it out , but I ca n't because it 's a management function , so , I 've got to be the one that 's got to walk round the branch for half an hour , taking twelve blocks off , checking all the sealed . |
| 25 | But will anyone pay the money for such an expensive supercar ? |
| 26 | After waiting for Shildon for half an hour Rain used the phone in the Cloister and rang the Post . |
| 27 | She knew that where once this would have been a natural remedy for such an upset , she was unsure now how she would respond . |
| 28 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 29 | This , she explained , is because the politics of the country have provided few government institutions or educational bodies capable of guiding people and industry through such an upheaval . |
| 30 | I remember ‘ laying down a fleece ’ that I would not proceed towards the ordained ministry unless the Lord enabled me to lead another to Christ before a certain date : there is nothing that concentrates the mind as such an agreement with God ! |