Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Manager Ian Porterfield certainly sees Newton as an important part of Chelsea 's future , insisting : ‘ Eddie 's got authority , and that makes him very , very promising . ’ |
| 32 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 33 | Travel came when Mr Smythe left Sedbergh School and the security of the family home in Sunderland for a three-year apprenticeship at the Arosa confectionery school in Switzerland . |
| 34 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 35 | Overseeing the whole process would be a Scottish Deer Commission , replacing the RDC as a credible and contemporary wildlife management agency , with wide responsibilities , adequate resources and meaningful powers . |
| 36 | The communiqué also called for a reconvening of the international Paris peace conference which had met in mid-1989 [ see pp. 36848-49 ] and for the designation of Angkor Wat as a non-hostility area . |
| 37 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 38 | He described Chelsea as a little village a couple of miles from London where the Thames ran between nurseries and market gardens , ‘ of which there are a frightful number ’ . |
| 39 | KEEP CLEAR : Ref Roger Dilkes ignores an angry Dave Beasant … . after giving a free-kick against Chelsea for an accidental back-pass … |
| 40 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 41 | GTE Corp 's GTE Telephone Operations in Irving , Texas has signed definitive agreements to sell its telephone service areas in North Dakota and South Dakota for an undisclosed sum : it will sell its 10,200 access lines in North Dakota to TPC Inc , owned by United Telephone Mutual Aid Corp , Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative and Polar Communications Mutual Aid Corp and its 8,000 access lines in South Dakota to Golden West Telecommunications Co-operative , GTE said . |
| 42 | We remember the Spiros as a warm and loving family . ’ |
| 43 | I also like to give credit where it is due , and would , therefore , like to thank members of the Great Central Railway who were very helpful and friendly when I made a recent visit to Rothley and Loughborough as an ordinary visitor . |
| 44 | He then hit Snell for a fifth straight six and a 12th four before being deceived by Kuiper 's slower ball , which he skied to extra . |
| 45 | Western philosophy , with Plato as an exemplary first instance , has generally acted on the presupposition that language is subservient to some idea , intention or referent that lies outside it . |
| 46 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
| 47 | ‘ No matter what the fans and the media may think about him , I regard Taylor as a true professional and he has to get his priorities right . |
| 48 | Perhaps , while she hassled , she managed to forget Montaine for a few hours . |
| 49 | The 1949 Constitution established Costa Rica as a democratic state with an executive President directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 50 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
| 51 | Following an afternoon reception hosted by the State of Minnesota on Saturday we fly to San Francisco for a two-night stay at the Quality Inn Suites Hotel . |
| 52 | It was Francis who gave Cantona his foothold in English football by bringing him to Sheffield for a one-week trial last January . |
| 53 | To improve , she attended an art class in Sheffield for a short time . |
| 54 | Experts cite Romania as a possible future instance where human rights violations could lead to a call for action from outside national boundaries . |
| 55 | The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland . |
| 56 | But his outburst will not sway Graham Taylor , who said : ‘ I see Nigel Clough as an important member of my squad . ’ |
| 57 | It is ironic that , after the National majority had been safely won , and shown itself , as might have been predicted , protectionist , Snowden reverted to the role of stubborn free trader , and gave currency to the view of MacDonald as a feeble halfwit , without principles or dignity , Yet MacDonald , although no doctrinaire free trader , had fought harder to reach a formula that the Liberals , Snowden 's free trade allies , could accept than Snowden himself had done . |
| 58 | He was ambitious and he regarded Middlesbrough as a big club . |
| 59 | Dr Malcolm Chase , who is conducting the day school , highlighted the importance of Middlesbrough as an industrial area . |
| 60 | Not because they try to sell us Maastricht as economic salvation , privatisation as good for the NHS and John Selwyn Gummer as a vibrant personality . |