Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I do n't think anyone here as an elected member , needs to defend their positions if they wish to move from a political or a bureaucratic policy to something which is more pluralist and much more representative of the kind of policies that this council should be discussing not only now but also in the future . |
| 2 | If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back . |
| 3 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 4 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 5 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 6 | In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 7 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 8 | With stable macro policies of either a monetary or a fiscal kind , rational expectations on behalf of economic agents mean that such agents fully appreciate the signals that trigger government policy and the prescriptions that follow , internalizing this into their behaviour . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the object of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 had been to simplify the requirements for the execution and witnessing of a will ; that the complementary requirements , of a signature and of an intention that the signature should give effect to the will , demanded a practical approach ; that a written name , not being a normal signature , was capable of being a signature for the purposes of section 9 ; but that where a testamentary document was signed before the dispositive provisions had been written , affirmative evidence was necessary to show that the testator had intended the signature to give effect to the provisions ; that by writing his name and the dispositive provisions in one single operation the deceased had provided such evidence ; and that , accordingly , the will had been duly executed ; but that , on the evidence , the deputy judge had been entitled to conclude that the onus on the defendants of establishing the testamentary capacity of the deceased had not been discharged ( post , pp. 588B–H , 589B–F , 592A–C ) . |
| 10 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 11 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 12 | Following Sambrook 's logic , though he does not use these terms , this image may interpreted either in a descriptive or a normative sense . |
| 13 | Awards may be held on either a full-time or a part-time basis . |
| 14 | it 's that or a new head torch , but if I got a new head torch it , it perhaps but they 're about , they 're about thirty quid I think |
| 15 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 16 | Either that or a one-hit wonder , an eventuality the Crocs are clearly banking on . |
| 17 | This might , for example , reveal that a child who appeared to be inattentive or a slow learner was in fact showing symptoms of specific learning difficulties ( e.g. dyslexia ) or a hearing impairment — possibly an intermittent one such as is associated with otitis media . |
| 18 | Analysts believe it will pave the way for further cuts if the Conservatives retain power but fear a victory for Labour or a hung parliament could lead to higher interest rates . |
| 19 | The purpose of such investigation will be to determine the precise nature of the incident , to examine the factors contributing to its occurrence and to identify any measures which might be taken to minimise the likelihood of a repetition of this or a similar incident . |
| 20 | Please take the trouble to write this or a similar message and look at it often . |
| 21 | I can often discover our different species of Oaks , one from another , by their form of growth , half or a whole mile distance ; and I am sure he must be very sharp-sighted that can know them , at half that distance , by their leaves , acorns , and cups , all together . |
| 22 | Sisters were categorised by Orton ( 1980 ) as having either a high or a low student orientation . |
| 23 | Despite its title , the Public Order Act creates some offences which apply whether the conduct takes place in a public or a private place . |
| 24 | Section 4(2) of the Public Order Act 1986 extends the old Section 5 breach of the peace offence by providing : An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place , except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation is distributed or displayed , by a person inside a dwelling and the other person is also inside that or another dwelling . |
| 25 | ‘ The location of the offence can be described in evidence by any witness of the incident to show that it occurred in a public or a private place . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 2 ) An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place , except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used , or the writing , sign or other visible representation is distributed or displayed , by a person inside a dwelling and the other person is also inside that or another dwelling . ’ |
| 27 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |
| 28 | The first step is to inquire after symptoms that suggest organic disease such as anaemia , bleeding , fever , weight-loss or a recent change in bowel habit . |
| 29 | These societies would have the duty of distributing the dividends from the shares on either a universal or a restricted basis . |
| 30 | He is , variously , a militant secularist or a pious Muslim ; a socialist or a free-marketeer ; a proud Iraqi or a proud pan-Arabist ; the scourge of the West or the pragmatist on whom the West can safely rely . |