Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , in due course a suitable solatium in the form of an apology was offered to Harold Wilson — or at lest a solatium which he regarded as suitable since he possesses the invaluable quality of being able to convince himself of the correctness of whatever he does — and the matter ended . |
| 2 | The old Soviet parliament was to be replaced by a two-chamber Supreme Soviet , and in due course a new Soviet Constitution would be presented for approval leading to presidential and perhaps more general multiparty elections the following year . |
| 3 | To me , he wrote on 10 February as follows , the invective being tempered by the desire expressed at the beginning that we should have in due course a prolonged tête-à-tête : |
| 4 | I would always advise a small bit of brush on the takeoff side of the jump and in due course a white tape on the landing side . |
| 5 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 6 | Come back in a fortnight and we 'll check its progress , but you 'll find it takes a few weeks to really heal properly because we use that toe a great deal for balance . ’ |
| 7 | I want money , I 've , you re get blooming all that money a blooming week anyway , do n't you ! |
| 8 | Italian stage designer , Pier Luigi Pizzi , to give each stand a front door and first-floor balcony , declaring , ‘ Art of museum quality does not belong on the street ’ |
| 9 | In the loyalist camp an intense controversy on strategy was in progress and was to continue through the following months . |
| 10 | In theory , as mass is the best sound insulation , it would seem that building a new brick wall alongside the party wall would make the best improvement . |
| 11 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 12 | From the day of their first meeting , Paul Alexandre was struck by his prodigious artistic talents and begged him not to destroy any of his studies , offering him what little money a young doctor could spare . |
| 13 | You 've been a real sport , mister , standin' up for me like you did , and fetchin' that brute a lovely wallop . |
| 14 | He himself got landed with a boring little man from Luton , who was a great stalwart of the local amateur dramatic society there and clearly , though he did n't quite put it into words , thought The Hooded Owl a pale shadow of their recent production of When We Are Married . |
| 15 | It was as if , Harry reflected , Breakspear were some kind of Shangri-La , brief exposure to which ensured a stubborn youthfulness , prolonged exposure an accelerating regression to the cradle . |
| 16 | On the contrary , we have to assign to each level a peculiar time , relatively autonomous and hence relatively independent , even in its dependence , of the ‘ times ’ of the other levels … |
| 17 | He 's struck it well enough Roberto and then his European debut a terrific stop . |
| 18 | At first white-maned monsters , they plunged forward as dark shiny hump-backed whales , each wave a living being . |
| 19 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 20 | Development on the Glasgow and Gateshead sites has been slower , partly due to the effects of the recession , but in each case a mixed economy of houses and offices is planned . |
| 21 | Some radio stations are run by public corporations with a degree of operational autonomy from government , on paper at least — as in Malawi , Ghana , Nigeria and Zimbabwe — but in each case a greater degree of government control exists than is true of the BBC , which provided the model for the corporations of these countries . |
| 22 | Where action did occur , in the USA and Italy , in each case a central government initiative drove the process of local reform . |
| 23 | This juxtaposition of the myth of Athena growing a beard with the strategies Mira employs to bolster Willy 's ego points to the fact that in each case a female voice transforms itself into a voice men will trust . |
| 24 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 25 | Only in two of the 93 patients who had both endoscopy and colonic assessment was colonic neoplasia ( in each case a small <5 mm adenoma ) found to coexist with an upper gastrointestinal lesion ( a gastric ulcer and grade 2 oesophagitis ) . |
| 26 | If I did not believe that the answer to these questions was in each case a resounding yes I would have found it very difficult to give these lectures . |
| 27 | In each case a detailed problem list was establish , and the therapist also tried to understand the reasons for the behaviour . |
| 28 | This meant that in each case a secondary modern school which would have been too small to survive was absorbed quietly and without fuss into the grammar school , which did not bother to change its name . |
| 29 | In each case a different meaning is attached to the act of lighting a candle . |
| 30 | In each case an innocent third party had for value acquired rights under the document . |