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 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I want money , I 've , you re get blooming all that money a blooming week anyway , do n't you ! |
| 7 | 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 ’ |
| 8 | In the loyalist camp an intense controversy on strategy was in progress and was to continue through the following months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You 've been a real sport , mister , standin' up for me like you did , and fetchin' that brute a lovely wallop . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | He 's struck it well enough Roberto and then his European debut a terrific stop . |
| 17 | At first white-maned monsters , they plunged forward as dark shiny hump-backed whales , each wave a living being . |
| 18 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Where action did occur , in the USA and Italy , in each case a central government initiative drove the process of local reform . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In each case a detailed problem list was establish , and the therapist also tried to understand the reasons for the behaviour . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In each case a different meaning is attached to the act of lighting a candle . |
| 28 | In each case an innocent third party had for value acquired rights under the document . |
| 29 | Whom did they annoy and to whom was their possible presence a political danger ? |
| 30 | In that case a married woman , Mrs. Duval , gave security over her property , limited to £1,000 , to secure her husband 's business debts to Turnbull & Co . |