Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover the fluted columns , caryatid gateways and golden domes of the pavilion suggested to my adolescent self a world of ambiguous pleasures involving him , which I had to suppress my tipsy mind from visualising . |
| 2 | However , I am delighted that the Government are giving my hon. Friend a money resolution — that is all very proper — but I beg the House not to be too concerned about what the figure is . |
| 3 | Although we shall do our utmost to resist it , I can not give my hon. Friend a guarantee that we will be successful in that endeavour . |
| 4 | I have always shared with my hon. Friend a belief in the importance of manufacturing industry , particularly the motor car industry . |
| 5 | Let me give my hon. Friend a quote : ’ If our costs rise more rapidly than others ' costs , particularly German costs , then British producers lose markets at home and abroad . ’ |
| 6 | It has recently published its prospectus for 1992-93 , and I will send my hon. Friend a copy . |
| 7 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 8 | I my personal opinion a Sloth might be a good analogy although they have been know to get down quicker than John ( i.e falling out of the tree ) |
| 9 | If I can take home a hundred and twenty quid well with my seventy pound a week pension two hundred quid . |
| 10 | My ‘ old ’ boat was well known to the local seals , and they would allow a really close approach , but I have only had my present boat a couple of years and they are still suspicious . |
| 11 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 12 | There is no need for me to live and die in this little world , with my only view a view out of the same window , at the same spruce-trees , the view from my bed . |
| 13 | ‘ My homesite was Cape Wrath but before I ever made my first flight a Man came and … ’ and he began to tell her his story , of the Zoo , of the Cages , of the Men there and his sudden escape … only leaving out mention of the other eagles in the Cages for in his heart he knew their pride would ask that he did not mention their names to a free eagle , nor would they wish for pity from outside . |
| 14 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 15 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The wolf emerged , sometimes the bird , and Holly-Tallis huddled , alone and unloved , her evergreen skin a challenge and an irritation to the others . |
| 18 | Her eyes were narrowed and her alert expression a contrast to her earlier tension . |
| 19 | In framing its monetary policy a government must have a clear idea of what the goals of the policy are , which monetary variable it is going to attempt to control and by what means , whether to take a long-term or short-term perspective , and how the policy fits in with other policies . |
| 20 | Around her neck she put a thin early Victorian gold chain , on her right hand a fire opal she had recently had reset in a simple gold ring , on her left wrist the gold Baume & Mercier watch . |
| 21 | On her head was a large Russian hat of the same fur , and on her right hand a muff . |
| 22 | ‘ But , ’ asked Charles , ‘ It 's going to curtail her theatrical career a bit , is n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline 's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams . |
| 24 | Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland unexpectedly resigned as leader of the Labour Party at a congress on Nov. 5-8 , following the suicide of her youngest son a month earlier ; she was replaced by party secretary-general Thorbjörn Jagland , 42 . |
| 25 | She loved their pale shining ; clean brass was a pleasure , its proper maintenance a pleasure to herself as well as to Lizzie . |
| 26 | Since its post-crash peak a month ago , share prices have fallen by 8.5 per cent . |
| 27 | In contrast , the Cleanazoom Upright behaved capriciously in all the tests , its fevered whine a symptom of impotence rather than strained efficiency . |
| 28 | True to her word , Nelly Tilling called frequently at Albert Piggott 's house , and enjoyed cleaning up the place and cooking her old friend a meal . |
| 29 | In adjusting the Polytechnic 's staffing establishment to account for their central contribution a formula is used which balances the contribution of numbers of staff from each department ( 0.3 ) — i.e. the ‘ payment ’ — against the central service each department receives ( in terms of students admitted and counselled in Stage I ) — the ‘ bill ’ . |
| 30 | In its pure form a listing of all the terms in such a language will only remain current until the next batch of documents is added to the system . |