Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | JON Bon Jovi flew out of Ulster in his private jet last night after an explosive concert that set Belfast alight . |
| 2 | Phillips was first to go after an off-the-ball incident that escaped the attention of most people in the ground . |
| 3 | To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question . |
| 4 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 5 | The court ruled by a 9-3 majority after an all-night sitting that Mr Yeltsin 's declaration of ‘ special rule ’ in a television address on Saturday violated five or six points of the Soviet-era constitution . |
| 6 | In the first of these studies , Greer and Bagley ( 1971 ) found after an 18-month follow-up that patients who had received no psychiatric attention before discharge from hospital after attempts repeated more often ( 39 per cent ) than those who had received either brief psychiatric contact ( 26 per cent repeated ) or more prolonged psychiatric contact ( 20 per cent repeated ) . |
| 7 | Despite an extrajudicial bargain that , if Galileo confessed his error , he would be treated leniently , the final censorship was a sentence of life imprisonment . |
| 8 | A plea to downgrade Darlington so it could attract more Government aid is to go ahead despite an earlier warning that it could backfire . |
| 9 | The Review of Child Care Law stated an acceptance that the state should not intervene between parent and child simply because it could provide something better than the parents but only if parents were falling so far below an acceptable standard that their children were suffering harm as a result ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | It was a movement away from an aesthetics of ‘ life ’ and the instincts and towards the traditional aesthetics of beauty , a move towards an enervated ornamentalism that was perfectly acceptable to ruling elites . |
| 11 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 12 | On the other hand , this might be evidence of an emerging principle that input VAT attributable to any outside-the-scope supply should be allowable . |
| 13 | It does appear however , the application made to us , is exclusively local authority support and not a part of an overall support that includes the commission for racial equality . |
| 14 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 15 | The electorate 's views are seen as stable , centrist and moderate , but , in the context of an electoral system that bolsters the two-party system and blocks the easy rise of third parties of moderation , the House of Commons is " unrepresentative " and the party activists unchecked . |
| 16 | In this kind of political situation , and in the context of an economic decline that was " blamed " on the excesses of democratic politics , instead of praising the British constitution as the best in the world , the constitutional authorities agreed that things were very badly wrong . |
| 17 | If fully connected to a vision of an economic future that is ambitious , is shorn of complacency and seized of the danger of failing to compete internationally , it would be instrumental in revitalising our prospects . |
| 18 | A re-enactment by ‘ The Siege Group ’ of an actual event that took place at Sulgrave in 1644 . |
| 19 | Some Latin American educationalists predict that the ensuing frustration of an educated population that can not find appropriate work , will lead to social conflict . |
| 20 | This was the culmination of an atomic programme that the Fourth Republic had begun and which de Gaulle had accelerated . |
| 21 | Writer Stephen Poliakoff has made an exciting cinema debut with ‘ Close My Eyes ’ — the story of an obsessive love that unfolds during a sweltering English summer . |
| 22 | While supporting the general thrust of the strategy and its emphasis on the importance of transport to the regeneration of the regions , the CIT 's response also comments on the absence to date of an effective structure that could apply any available EC funding and carry a regional strategy forward , as well as on the need both for considerable investment in public transport and for the best use to be made of the existing transport infrastructure in serving proposed strategic development sites . |
| 23 | The development away from specialist child care to unified social services was the result of an increasing awareness that the family must be supported and assisted if child deprivation was to be avoided . |
| 24 | ‘ This decision is merely the formal recognition of an existing relationship that we hope to extend and strengthen further in the years ahead , ’ said IAMCR 's President , Cees J Hamelink . |
| 25 | It is easy to fall into the trap of the seductive powers of an existing technique that sounds fun and has had success elsewhere — beware ! ! |
| 26 | If the conveyancer for the lessor refuses to delete it , or if you act for a purchase of an existing lease that includes such a provision , you should always explain to your client the nature of the provision , its unusual nature and its disadvantages ( putting off a subsequent prospective buyer or mortgagee , delay and expense in taking up references and obtaining the licence ) . |
| 27 | By day their sunken , listless eyes reflected the depth of an inner misery that would have been unthinkable to the exuberant youths of 1925 . |
| 28 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 29 | It 's very much a real church while the show 's on , with a vicar and prayers each morning , and it 's part of an entire village that 's taken only four weeks to build . |
| 30 | In fact , Laplace transformation of an entire equation that has been obtained by invoking one of Kirchhoff 's laws converts it from integro-differential form into algebraic form . |