Example sentences of "[adj] of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lynx was hovering out near the sea , staying clear of a possible explosion . |
| 2 | Once already he had lost control , the wheels sliding away from under him as he slewed clear of a steep-sided washway . |
| 3 | In the opening 250 race Robert Dunlop stayed well clear of a hectic battle for second place behind him . |
| 4 | She was rested until October , when she beat the Derby winner Slip Anchor by three lengths in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket , showing brilliant acceleration to pull clear of a top-class field which also included Commanche Run and Helen Street . |
| 5 | Behind her , Atrimonides lurched clear of a rising pall of smoke . |
| 6 | These four came in 31 seconds clear of a chasing group containing Lillywhite , the Banana professional . |
| 7 | Guided by an apparent recognition of the obligations of power toward the people , Conservatives could show evidence after 1867 of a consistent record of legislative reform to improve working-class conditions . |
| 8 | The reciprocal of a persymmetric matrix is not in general also persymmetric ; e.g. unc A persymmetric matrix can be treated as symmetric for the purpose of reciprocation , but otherwise it is not special . |
| 9 | For example , if R = ( Rij ) is the reciprocal of a lower triangular matrix L then unc where a , b , c , … must be nonzero ; otherwise unc and R does not exist . |
| 10 | In cases of individual atonement a whole burnt-offering of a male victim was made ( Lev . |
| 11 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 12 | ( Though I do have a friend — Bunny — who always insists on a female doctor or nurse if he has anything wrong of a private nature . |
| 13 | It is the myriad solidified fragments of this rock froth which form the large volumes of ash mantling the countryside round the volcano which is definitive of a Plinian eruption . |
| 14 | Third , much of the construction industry depends on formal companies subcontracting at least half of a total work programme to informals , many of whom in turn use tools produced by other jua kali artisans . |
| 15 | Is his J a middle initial or half of a first initial ? ) and K.J. Shine , as well as A.J. Wright , R.J. Scott , P.J. Prichard and N.J. Lenham , so we could have two J sides with no trouble . |
| 16 | Half of a right angular cross is a corner , an arrow . |
| 17 | In each of the semi-roundels , adjacent to the central square , are two lotus buds linked by a fillet ( in the panels to the left and right of the lion ) and half of a sixteen-petalled flower enclosed by simple guilloche ( in the panels above and below the lion ) . |
| 18 | At the opposite extreme of m = 1 , the half-section is half of a constant-k T-section and equation ( 9.66 ) shows that in this case the load gives rise to input impedance , the characteristic impedance of the corresponding Π-section . |
| 19 | The cDNA clones KOX2 , KOX31 and KOX21 have been completely sequenced : KOX2 maintains an open reading frame throughout its length ( 1136 bp ) which includes four complete ZNF domains and half of a fifth , represented in the 3' half of the cDNA ( Figure 2a ) ; KOX31 ( 972 bp ) contains an open reading frame from its 5' end which encodes five ZNF domains before terminating ( Figure 2b ) ; KOX21 ( 1007 bp ) also contains an open reading frame from its 5' end which encodes eight ZNF domains before terminating ( accession number X69115 ) . |
| 20 | The reality is that we are dealing with half of a metropolitan region because it is manageable on this scale for the study of residential patterns and it makes sense to review base at the same level . |
| 21 | They were paid by these , and by the pennies of helpless men and women who might be forced to cross half of a strange continent before even embarking on the Atlantic crossing : from central Europe to Le Havre , or across the North Sea and via the smoky Pennine valleys to Liverpool . |
| 22 | It owns half of a French rating agency , ADEF , and all of Nordisk , a Swedish firm . |
| 23 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 24 | ( The dose of radiation that would kill half of a human population within 60 days is the LD 50/60 . |
| 25 | The method involved forms half of a genetic algorithm . |
| 26 | In answer to ‘ what can I offer them ? ’ a short explanation that every member receives the Annual Report and 3 editions of Medau News which with postage accounts for half of a full membership fee , the remaining money goes towards administration expenses . |
| 27 | The seeds , he says ‘ are flat and one half of a beautiful red colour and the other half of a deep black … the flowers have not yet appeared in England , but from a painting done from the plant in the country , they seem to be very beautiful . ’ |
| 28 | But within the England training camp , Carlton Palmer is half of a double act that has transformed the atmosphere in Graham Taylor 's squad , banishing the gloom of Sweden . |
| 29 | Bill used to be half of a double act with Dave Allen . |
| 30 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |