Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In due course a hotel in Suceava had reported that two English tourists had failed to return . |
| 3 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is an inhuman , heartless massacre a murder , an unasked for and undeserved murder , a murder of innocent , lively , living , intelligent foxes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Flipping the towel over his shoulder , he raked his fingers through his spikily tousled hair a couple of times , restoring it to rough order . |
| 14 | The wolf emerged , sometimes the bird , and Holly-Tallis huddled , alone and unloved , her evergreen skin a challenge and an irritation to the others . |
| 15 | To offset the effects of disproportionate increases , the Government implemented as an interim measure a scheme whereby two thirds of the medical rate of MDO subscriptions was reimbursed to those practitioners employed full time in the NHS . |
| 16 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 17 | And you do n't need say , you do n't need , you only need like one private function a week . |
| 18 | In one much-quoted case a holding of 30 acres in the manor of Plumpton , increased in scale value by nearly three hundred per cent in the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | ‘ in a doctor 's professional judgement a patient needs NHS care … |
| 20 | Usually when assessing damages in respect of non-pecuniary loss a court will award one lump sum in respect of " pain and suffering and loss of amenities " and in such cases it is generally impossible to say how much relates to " pain and suffering " and how much to " loss of amenities " . |
| 21 | Held in Villa Grimaldi building , once a torture centre where many Chilean disappeared prisoners were detained under Gen. Augusto Pinochet " s 1973-90 military regime , the meeting ended on Nov. 11 with the decision to create a " network for life " throughout Latin America , aimed at the rapid denunciation of cases of disappearance whenever they occurred , and at the achievement of international legislation declaring the repressive practice a crime against humanity . |
| 22 | With a rate of fast return the tanning bed is the single most profitable investment a club can make . ’ |
| 23 | The standard book on crime in non-Western countries , published in 1973 , asserts that social changes in developing countries in the mid-twentieth century are similar to those which ‘ suddenly produced extensive crime a century or more ago in Europe . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 25 | Well a man is n't subject to moods or premenstrual tension a guy is n't going to phone in sick with some crap about cramps . |
| 26 | If , in addition , they could hire for private patients the very expensive facilities in the way of X-ray machines , operating theatres and the like , to be found within the National Health Service , this too made their lives very much easier and in many cases made their private practice a possibility . |
| 27 | On the other side of the Square , attracting a much larger crowd , a fire-eater was doing his thing watched by amazed children as he threw his head back and spewed flame a couple of yards into the air . |
| 28 | A TEENAGER was repeatedly stabbed by a masked man in a busy area in broad daylight a year ago . |
| 29 | Juliet visualised him standing in Sister 's office , his soft brown eyes concerned and tender , his curly brown hair a bit ruffled , a smile at the corner of his mouth . |
| 30 | To charge the German buyer a sterling value is to pass the risk on to him , making a sale less likely , especially under highly competitive conditions . |