Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ?
2 It 's funny how an animal like a cow or a horse would swim you would think it would be
3 An example of the output is shown in Plate 2 where an image of As , Sb and Bi in stream sediments , which are associated with gold mineralisation , indicates anomalous values over several gold prospects in the Argyll area of western Scotland .
4 Is that not an example of private wealth at the expense of public underfunding ?
5 The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter .
6 He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay .
7 But since agriculture forms the basis of our industry , it was by and large also an intensification of the crisis in the national economy in general .
8 8.3 Following an episode of violence , positive support should be available for the individual directly involved .
9 The pervading aura of peace was interrupted only in the early 1870s when an army of men carved a railway throughout its length , since when an undisturbed tranquillity has prevailed .
10 Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day .
11 I do not agree that such a postmodern attack on autonomous and auratic culture is at all necessarily an offensive against ‘ bourgeois ’ art .
12 ‘ You 're good enough an actress to be invited to our Fenice theatre . ’
13 Legionnaires ' Disease was first recognised and named in 1976 following an outbreak of pneumonia amongst a group of American Legion delegates to a convention in Philadelphia .
14 The artist had three sittings at Highgrove , each supposedly an hour in length , but each of which in fact lasted throughout each of the three mornings .
15 Alan Bond , one of Australia 's most flamboyant entrepreneurs and former chairman of Bond Corporation Holdings , was arrested on Dec. 6 following an investigation into the November 1988 collapse of Rothwells Ltd. , a merchant bank run by his friend and business associate Laurie Connell .
16 Bond was arrested on Dec. 6 following an investigation into the 1988 collapse of Rothwells Ltd. , a merchant bank run by his business associate , Laurie Connell [ see p. 37920 ] .
17 Care should , however , be taken where a section appears to confer no right of appeal , but that section is in fact linked to another section where a right of appeal exists ; e.g. under s.62 a licensing board may attach conditions to a grant or transfer of a licence and apparently there is no right of appeal against that section , but in Wallace v. Kyle and Carrick Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 12 , it was held that as s.62 was ancillary to s.10 under which licences were granted , an appeal was competent ; see also M. Milne v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 where an appeal against a decision by the clerk under 5.10(1) refusing to accept a late application for renewal was allowed in respect that the application related to a renewal of a licence under s.17(4) .
18 But what I mean is , he did n't have that high an opinion of himself , just because he knew he could have any one of us for the asking .
19 Gilbert Burnet was repeating an old Whig commonplace when he wrote : " It was a maxim among our lawyers , that even an Act of Parliament against Magna Carta was null of itself " .
20 Karkeek , who died aged 55 in 1858 following an accident to his gig , qualified on 1 December 1834 .
21 It was introduced in 1970 following an amendment to the articles of agreement of the IMF and the formation of a special drawing account .
22 Nonetheless , I felt it necessary to invoke the paragraph in relation to the Spanish report on the Dan Air 727 which crashed at Tenerife in April 1980 where an attachment by the UK accredited representative constitutes an integral part of the official report on the accident .
23 The intercommunal talks had reopened on Feb. 26 after having been broken off in July 1989 following an incident on the " green line " between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the island , when more than 100 Greek Cypriots were arrested by Turkish Cypriot police [ see p. 36822 ] .
24 See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening .
25 Seven o'clock an evening of entertainment with clairvoyant medium Brian Gibson is on at the Scout 's Headquarters on Lovers Lane at Newark tickets are two fifty there seven until nine .
26 National Democratic Congress ( NDC , centrist , Nicholas Brathwaite l. ) formed a government in March 1990 following an offer of support from Ben Jones , the leader of The National Party ( TNP ) .
27 On the other hand in part of Wychwood Forest in Oxfordshire , the first trees were cut down in October 1856 following an act of parliament .
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