Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in a classic delaying action , they forced the royalists to surrender after a mere seven of them had been killed . |
| 2 | Barnes was desperately unlucky after a magnificent one-two with McManaman to see his volley come back off the foot of the post . |
| 3 | This makes it possible to study samples isolated at high dilution in an inert matrix of a solid such as N 2 or Ar . |
| 4 | The International Animal Welfare Alliance said Mary , whose husband is in charge of monkeys at Woburn and Longleat , is a director of a firm involved in the sale . |
| 5 | THE OFFICIAL , artist-approved re-release of a private pressing from ‘ 74 that has since become a sought-after collector 's item . |
| 6 | A substrate 1 has successive epitaxial layers 2 to 6 , the first three 2 , 3 , 4 being of materials suitable for a double heterojunction laser , layer 5 being of high resistivity material and layer 6 being of a material suitable for an FET channel . |
| 7 | Obviously as I say , we would support the additional bid of a hundred thousand for pursuing the poll tax er non-registers . |
| 8 | Opposition came from the Treasury ministers who objected to a handout of a cool million as a near sacrilegious attack on the principle of sound finance , and from the Foreign Secretary who had no faith at all in the capacity of the Evian Committee to agree on joint action . |
| 9 | In effect the equivalent of a million pounds-worth of fees went unused . |
| 10 | At the same time , the rhetoric of ‘ partnership ’ has never been stronger : used by policy-makers it seeks to soften the blow of centralization ; used by the professionals it smacks of a desperate clinging to more liberal values . |
| 11 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 12 | But in the final analysis , Switzerland took three points out of a possible four from Scotland and that fact was not lost on Roxburgh , who said : ‘ I think these two games were significant . |
| 13 | Harrison Ngau lost his battle : he scored 2,019 votes against the Barisan candidate 's 3,252 ; only about 5,500 people voted out of a possible 10,000 in Teland Usan . |
| 14 | The design for the new Longman headquarters ( left ) has been awarded 20 points out of a possible 21 for its environmental standards by the Building Research Establishment 's Environmental Assessment method , the industry standard for assessing buildings . |
| 15 | The mean number of hits was 9.2 and false alarms 4.4 ( each out of a possible 15 per subject ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the letter shows clearly the intensity of feeling in England in this period , and the creation of a new archbishopric at Lichfield is certain to have been an extremely controversial matter . |
| 17 | Prost clocked the fastest lap with a time of 1min 16.8sec , three-tenths of a second clear of Ayrton Senna in a McLaren . |
| 18 | Taking the second first , the pathname specified for the concealed logical must be a physical pathname — you can not use a concealed logical of a concealed logical in order to traverse deeper than 16 directory levels . |
| 19 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 20 | A plan that sometimes works very well — after their kitchen equipment ( which should include a refrigerator ) has been checked — is to start them off with a ‘ gift ’ for their larder of a small box-full of a variety of inexpensive sauces , seasonings and flavourings , which can be used to add interest to very simple meals . |
| 21 | This structuring function of the Court of Appeal was further strengthened by the appearance in 1970 of Thomas ' Principles of Sentencing which provided an accessible digest of a great many of its decisions , both reported and unreported . |
| 22 | In addition , we became experts in a new and complex world where everything from the intricacies of a changing semantic of underground language to the knowledge that tetrahydrocannabinol ( THE ) was the active ingredient of cannabis separated us from our previous associations and took us into a world where few in the organization could begin to operate with comfort . |
| 23 | Offa 's difficulties with the archbishop of Canterbury had resulted in the creation of a Mercian archbishopric at Lichfield . |
| 24 | No question of a minor consenting to or refusing medical treatment arises unless and until a medical or dental practitioner advises such treatment and is willing to undertake it . |
| 25 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 26 | The seat had become vacant as a result of the suicide of a senior offical of the ruling Zanu ( PF ) party who had been condemned by a commission of inquiry for profiting from a racket involving the unlawful resale of officially purchased vehicles . |
| 27 | it is not restricted to conduct causing or intended to cause injury or damage but includes any other violent conduct ( for example , throwing at or towards a person a missile of a kind capable of causing injury which does not hit or falls short ) ( Section 8 ) . |
| 28 | Punishments should , he said , be public and of a kind appropriate to the type of offence : corporal punishments for crimes of violence , public humiliation for ‘ crimes founded on pride ’ and so on . |
| 29 | Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level . |
| 30 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |