Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surprise is not that an accountant stands for Labour while an iron and steel worker is an Alliance candidate , but rather that the class basis of the two sets of candidates is so distinct . |
| 2 | One of the options it allows a speaker is to select the element acting as subject as a marked thematic choice , an option not normally available since the subject is the unmarked theme of a declarative clause in English . |
| 3 | Police in the Co Armagh area have been on a state of alert since a massive IRA bomb devastated the centre of nearby Lurgan in March last year . |
| 4 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 5 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 6 | Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds . |
| 7 | Admittedly the Lords have been cautious and , apart from Rhodesian sanctions , have avoided a head-on clash with Labour when a Labour Government had a clear majority in the Commons . |
| 8 | Although about an inch less wide than a Guild F-50 or a Gibson J-200 , this is still definitely not an instrument for players of the short-armed variety . |
| 9 | Bosnich made three appearance for United before a work permit problem forced him to return home to Australia . |
| 10 | But music types in Manhattan and Hollywood say that they can see a country act as plain as a barn door . |
| 11 | Why this should make a critical difference is far from clear since a company can create a fixed charge of accounts receivable or a mortgage of future property . |
| 12 | In short if an application does not know how to make use of expanded memory then the memory remains unused . |
| 13 | A couple of years ago these lanes were far from peaceful when a flash flood swept through the area . |
| 14 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 15 | One can get a further perspective on the development of the class/politics relationship in the period of the Wilson government by asking the question of whether matters could have turned out very differently , and in particular whether a ‘ socialist alternative ’ was there for the taking . |
| 16 | Castles can be explored at Llansteffan and Newcastle Emlyn in particular although a fine Castle gateway and some exposed walls can be seen at Carmarthen , with Laugharne Castle currently closed for environmental works . |
| 17 | Darren Grannell , 28 , of Lord Street , Latchford , Warrington and Lee Day , 22 , formerly of Warrington but now living in Weston-super-Mare , denied assaulting PC Roy Aspinall but changed their pleas to guilty after a trial had started . |
| 18 | CONTRARY to popular belief , a £1m damages award is not over generous when a young person suffers severe brain damage in a road accident . |
| 19 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 20 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 21 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 22 | Males can afford to let their secondary female struggle on alone because a single bird can still rear some young . |
| 23 | In CD 's day railway signal-lights were normally kept at green , but changed to red when a train was actually in a station or about to enter it . |
| 24 | As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time . |
| 25 | Does that mean that a man is a better machine for running than a quail , or a chipmunk or mouse ? |
| 26 | And it would n't , you would never know for certain until a speculative proposal was actually put to the test . |
| 27 | If the adventurers stick together , the Harpies will attempt to grab a pack animal ( if the adventurers have one ) , or will swoop round attacking at random until an adventurer is wounded . |
| 28 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 29 | To conclude : we have found that the industrial co-operative , in a market economy , is a fully effective form of organisation for production or provision in the United Kingdom as in other liberal democracies ; that there is no necessary reason to attach to it limitations of size or kind ; and that the general adoption of the form would import into the national economy such a structural change as is urgently needed to resolve the problem , ominous and intractable , of securing near-full employment without inflation at other than an insignificant rate . |
| 30 | She was critical but stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night after being left for dead when a Ford Cortina crashed into parked vehicles in Berwick Hills , Middlesbrough , on Sunday . |