Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 2 | Others awaiting trial by the same court for corruption during Pasok 's eight-year term of office ( 1981-89 ) included the former Prime Minister , Andreas Papandreou , who stated after the verdict that not Athanasopoulos and his actions but " a collective political decision by a government " had been on trial . |
| 3 | For 1993 Mr Fothergills again lead the way in revivals with ‘ Night and Day ’ after spotting just one plant of this white-throated , crimson flowered variety in a four-acre field of ‘ Black Prince ’ . |
| 4 | The Rational Audio Aura 01 is a Czech-made deck with a parallel tracking arm ( which moves across the record on rails instead of pivoting from one end ) , bizarre retro-styling and an idiosyncratic sound . |
| 5 | ‘ You were carrying a concealed weapon contrary to social format and I note that you sport the open-necked look in a zany tie zone . |
| 6 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 7 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 8 | Recent studies which used long term recording of colonic motility with a colonoscopically positioned manometric probe , and simultaneous measurement of transit through intraleuminally instilled radiolabelled compounds have provided more detailed information on the relationship of motility to mass movements : ( 1 ) high amplitude propagated contractions ( pressure waves greater than 50 mmHg which are propagated more than 10 cm ) occur infrequently in normal subjects , averaging six per 24 hours . |
| 9 | And the technical reliability of a crucial design feature of the plant — its steam-generators — remain a matter of conjecture . |
| 10 | Chartism articulated experience within a complex rhetoric that interpellated radical working-class support at a national level . |
| 11 | He was probably as tough as old leather , cycling his rural route with a heavy sack every morning . |
| 12 | The traditional costume of the men is white baggy knee-length trousers , a white long-sleeved and open-necked shirt with a soft collar and a red sash at the waist . |
| 13 | She was immediately conscious of every line of the taut muscular body , from his shoulders beneath the open-necked shirt to a slim waist and lean thighs beneath the dark trousers he was wearing . |
| 14 | Wearing an open-necked shirt in a shade of blue which intensified the colour of his eyes and complemented the width of his shoulders and silver-grey trousers that moulded slim hips before encasing long , muscled legs , Rune Christensen looked like some godly visitor from Asgard — and one bent on vengeance . |
| 15 | We have seen in this chapter how a dual structure of production has been maintained in Japan through the interconnected activities of private business and a state which has supported the simultaneous existence of a limited number of larger companies and a massive network of smaller ones . |
| 16 | Others , like Weiskrantz ( 1968 ) and Dean ( 1980 ; 1982 ) , are much more sanguine and argue the brain is generally not interactive so that knowledge of what is lost after a lesion can be used to frame conclusions about the normal function of a region . |
| 17 | And that 's a sort of fairly normal function of a of any bypass is to particularly of a larger er urban area as opposed to say a village or a small town is to have connecti connections in er to the to the larger urban area at a number of points . |
| 18 | He had promised her that if anything out of the ordinary happened , any unnecessary flicker on a dial , he would wake her . |
| 19 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 20 | It is also a very helpful discipline if you are considering applying in due course for a Legal Aid Board franchise . |
| 21 | It is also clear that the renewal and extension of the non-proliferation treaty , hopefully leading in due course to a comprehensive test-ban treaty , depends crucially on the actions of the existing nuclear weapons states . ’ |
| 22 | If endorsed by the cabinet and the ANC 's national executive committee , and in due course by a multi-party conference , it would effectively postpone majority rule until the year 2000 . |
| 23 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 24 | The airport duties made a pleasant change for a few of our lads , and one of them was offered a helicopter flight to the rigs one day . |
| 25 | Information on living standards in the FES and GHS is to be linked at the aggregate level of a given household type and income level . |
| 26 | She looked like some grotesque statue in a pagan ritual . |
| 27 | As with the basic advice for the textual part of a newsletter the message is keep it simple . |
| 28 | But I thought the main concern would be finding the right building for a museum of this type , and that there would be no need to buy any pictures for it . |
| 29 | A number of political scientists have suggested that societies possess a political ‘ elite ’ , that decision makers are drawn from a narrow spectrum within a society . |
| 30 | Owners of a historic building on a valuable site who are determined to realize substantial sums on the property often allow the building to decay during the years of indecision . |