Example sentences of "[noun pl] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those doing other subjects an excellent place to visit would be the Scottish record office who have all sorts of sources from town minutes to agricultural statistics and they are eager to help . |
| 2 | New funding arrangements due for introduction on April 1 would have reduced the subsidy and given dentists an effective pay cut of up to 13.8pc . |
| 3 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 4 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 5 | The aim is to make clustered 80486- or Pentium-based servers an attractive alternative to systems such as the Digital Equipment Corp VAXcluster . |
| 6 | Keith Floyd tells us all about his travels to Australia and he gives readers an exclusive taste of the recipes he collected while he was there . |
| 7 | Quite clearly in the history of detective fiction its writers began to feel that the mere producing of one yet more ingenious murder was not enough , that perhaps setting a slightly less ingenious murder in some interesting area would give readers an extra reason for staying with the book . |
| 8 | It is a useful authorial device to offer readers an unheroic hero so as to escape romantic cliché . |
| 9 | His book , The Territorial Imperative , argues that human beings share with animals an instinctive territoriality , his argument being that this instinct lies deep in human nature and originally stems from animals ' need to establish their patch . |
| 10 | Before their eyes an immense picture , or series of pictures , gradually unwound : not just one scene , but the entire history of the shipwreck passed before them . |
| 11 | Well they say they see people that erm have more possessions than theirselves and they see in their eyes an easier way of getting similar possessions . |
| 12 | The way he was looking at her now , his eyes an open invitation to sin , told her plainly he had only one answer in mind ! |
| 13 | An officer with private income might find the half-pay given to those no longer employed in active units an agreeable augmentation of his resources , which he might be content to draw for the remainder of his life . |
| 14 | However , in certain circumstances they will charge VAT-registered traders an additional amount ( the flat rate addition ) when supplying agricultural goods and services . |
| 15 | Liberal Year Of Culture licensing laws are giving Glaswegians an unprecedented freedom to party , and the dance scene is rising to the challenge . |
| 16 | The college is a new charitable organisation which proposes to use a nationwide network of approved driving instructors to give experienced drivers an annual assessment . |
| 17 | This gives drivers an alternative route between Maidenhead and Oxford . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if the incentives are too high , they may themselves distort the market , by giving the beneficiaries an unfair advantage or enabling them to operate in a way which does not reflect genuine supply and demand . |
| 19 | Chinese philsophers , gourmets and poets have produced over the centuries an extensive literature devoted to tea and its presumed effects upon the body and soul . |
| 20 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 21 | Against the odds , Italians have used their country 's highly inflexible electoral system to deny the old ruling parties an effective majority in parliament . |
| 22 | Furthermore , at each of the three parties an identical cake was served : same size and same shape . |
| 23 | The narrator-hero of Kingsley Amis 's The Green Man ( 1969 ) , in most respects an ordinary chap , has to be persuaded by his wife even to drop in for family meals . |
| 24 | Although Arminius , who had taught theology at the University of Leyden , was in most respects an orthodox Protestant , on the question of salvation he had turned his back on a century of Reformed theology by arguing against the extreme predestinarian theology of Calvin 's successor at Geneva , Theodore Beza . |
| 25 | It makes him a hard man to place on the political spectrum , as he is in some respects an avowed admirer of Thatcher . |
| 26 | Frank Dzubeck , president of Communications Network Architects Inc in Washington DC , commented to the German newspaper 's US sister title , Computerworld , that IBM ‘ considers today 's multi-processors an interim step , and it does n't want to [ build them ] ’ . |
| 27 | Phizacklea and Miles warn of the limits of any strategy premised on the assumption ( made in the 1970s by the TUC and the Labour Party ) that ‘ the way to eliminate working-class racism was to provide counter-arguments to common racist beliefs ’ , to push out of workers ' heads an ideological baggage primarily produced by the dominant class and replace it by ‘ the truth ’ . |
| 28 | Thanks an awful lot ! ’ |
| 29 | JONATHAN SPEELMAN gave his supporters an anxious day in the sixth round of the Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals yesterday . |
| 30 | Leeds ' best performance of the season gave long-suffering Headingley supporters an early Christmas present and spared underfire coach Doug Laughton further embarrassment . |