Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who find in that formulation a description of authentic Co-operation will be content with his verdict . |
| 2 | And when they married , he gave each grandchild a wedding present from his own handiwork . |
| 3 | A gift of £250 from Sir Alan 's will went towards the making of tennis courts , and in due course a Trust Fund was established , of which the School has been a great beneficiary over the years . |
| 4 | In due course a hotel in Suceava had reported that two English tourists had failed to return . |
| 5 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 6 | It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer . |
| 7 | The accomplice becomes an enemy , and in due course a victim , at which point he can only salute the irony of his being executed on All Souls , Day : ‘ This is the day wherein I wished to fall/By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ’ ( V.i . |
| 8 | In due course a motion " That it is satisfactorily proved to this Conference that the intermarriage of deaf and dumb is conducive to their happiness and there is no reason to fear injurious results there from " , was carried by a majority of twenty-four to two . |
| 9 | In due course an Application for Planning Permission will have to be submitted to the Local Planning Authority . |
| 10 | It is an inhuman , heartless massacre a murder , an unasked for and undeserved murder , a murder of innocent , lively , living , intelligent foxes . |
| 11 | Inside the single-storey building a leathery-faced , middle-aged white woman hacked with a kind of parang at branches of flame trees which had worked their way through the open windows . |
| 12 | Strips of cloth had been tied to the thorn , as on trees dedicated to strange gods in West Africa , the Near East and India , each strip a supplication . |
| 13 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 14 | If you want to protect areas of your picture from accidental damage a window facility is provided and only the area inside can be edited while the window is active . |
| 15 | They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock . |
| 16 | In a technical text a reformulation may constrain the interpretation of the original for the purpose of ensuring a more accurate understanding of a particular concept and hence a greater understanding of the surrounding text . |
| 17 | The Act does not override the common law rights decided in the Birmingham case , and under that decision a councillor could claim to see the individual file if he could show a need to know . |
| 18 | The House of Lords gave its decision against " The Sunday Times " in July 1973 , and the European Court did not declare that decision a breach of the Convention until April 1979 — a delay of almost six years . |
| 19 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 20 | At each Hour a verse from the hymn is followed by a prayer which acknowledges this and sees the Incarnation as the means by which all men , both living and dead , can be united : The office thus daily rehearsed the historical story of the Passion of Christ and its significance in such a way that it is constantly renewed in human awareness through both the linear and cyclical experience of the passing of time . |
| 21 | His own understanding of the poem , however , was a quite different thing and , as he explained to Anne Ridler , there was no central meaning , since he had attempted to find a method of uniting on an emotional level a variety of elements which were otherwise quite unrelated . |
| 22 | Eight hour a day . |
| 23 | in each eye-cave a chrysalis |
| 24 | Flipping the towel over his shoulder , he raked his fingers through his spikily tousled hair a couple of times , restoring it to rough order . |
| 25 | At each level a comparison is being made of performance between the pre-protection ( 1924-31 ) and post-protection ( 1931-37 ) period . |
| 26 | The wolf emerged , sometimes the bird , and Holly-Tallis huddled , alone and unloved , her evergreen skin a challenge and an irritation to the others . |
| 27 | When subjects had to concurrently hold in memory two or four nouns on each trial a superiority of the RVF emerged . |
| 28 | Each drip a print : you ca n't guess where , then gone . |
| 29 | Well , I do n't believe that fur a start . |
| 30 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |