Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features . |
| 2 | Fifthly , in the arena of foreign affairs , Hitler was commonly regarded as an upholder and a fanatical defender of Germany 's just rights , a rebuilder of the nation 's strength , a statesman of genius , and for the most part , it seems , not as a racial imperialist warmonger working towards a ‘ war of annihilation ’ and limitless German conquest . |
| 3 | He laughed , a warm , comfortable sound that reminded her of homely , rustic things like sleek cattle and woolly sheep grazing on a West Country hillside . |
| 4 | Its unusual mahogany colouring and coat pattern , with a bold white finching along the back and underside and flashing white tail , suggest close links with the extinct Glamorgan ( see Welsh cattle ) and most would accept that the two in due course merged into a single breed . |
| 5 | Some in due course opt for a diploma programme . |
| 6 | In spite of his breakdowns , Hoccleve achieved a position of seniority and in due course retired with a pension . |
| 7 | The solid bark parted like a mist , closed like a clam . |
| 8 | The intact skin acts as a barrier between the internal and the external environment which contains many potentially harmful agents . |
| 9 | For Bernadette Quli , that worry turned into a nightmare when the woman she had taken on to look after her six-month-old daughter , Farrah , fled to Ireland with the baby . |
| 10 | I would therefore hold that money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority is prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 11 | Whether that money comes from a pension , a P E P , off the pools |
| 12 | In this chapter we examine a number of different forms of short-term contract working in a number of different sectors . |
| 13 | The mode and relations of production in an economy dominated by a smallholding peasantry strengthen the ability of the bureaucracy to control without strengthening the ability of other political institutions to intervene in a representative capacity . |
| 14 | However , this investigation used collocations extracted from a domain-specific corpus , and test data taken from the same domain . |
| 15 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 16 | VOLUNTEERS at an historic fort were yesterday assessing the cost of extensive damage caused during a burglary . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the Templars continued meeting in secret , each coven acting like a small community , the mysteries of the Order being passed from one generation to another . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Tom King , Defence Secretary , said Mr Kinnock was guilty of a ‘ monstrous cover-up ’ over the true extent of the party 's links with CND and questioned his ability to deliver strong defence based on a nuclear deterrent . |
| 19 | And every stone in that building weighs about a ton and it 's er each stone is dovetailed into the next stone and right into the centre it 's no lot of er solid buildings are just a a circumference of er stone and then grit in between you know but this is solid right right down to the centre to the keystone in the centre . |
| 20 | Bits of the well-organised election looked like a utopian dream of the new world order : Indians and Canadians , Ghanaians and Australians , travelling the countryside with helicopter-borne polling stations , bringing democracy to grateful if puzzled peasants in distant Cambodian villages . |
| 21 | Table 13 outlines the actions farmers thought they would take in the event of political or economic change leading to a drop in farm returns . |
| 22 | Isolated for long periods amongst little-known peoples , our sole defence lay in a sort of encounter therapy , a complete vulnerability to our hosts ' ways of being and seeing . |
| 23 | It was between Peter Unsworth 's ‘ Escape ’ , a print of a volcanic geyser erupting behind a climber scrambling out of the crater and A D Nicoll 's haunting picture of ‘ Footprints ’ disappearing over pristine sand dunes towards distant , mysterious mountains . |
| 24 | A narrow majority voted for a ban in parks and open spaces … but moves to make tenants conform to the ban as well were defeated by three votes . |
| 25 | This is because each hair consists of a sharp , hollow spine , the walls of which contain silica , making them glass-like and brittle . |
| 26 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 27 | The rest of the journey , not least an eight hour wait for a connection in Los Angeles , was not , I have to admit , so memorable or pleasing . |
| 28 | In 1981 a report to the European Parliament by P. de Keersmaeker of the European Commission expressed wholehearted support for the principle of a fixed link , and in the same year reports based on consultations with the Council of Europe 's Conference of Local and Regional Authorities came to a similar conclusion both about the fixed link and other gaps in the European network of trunk communications . |
| 29 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 30 | But why was the capitalist mode of production more efficient than feudal landownership , and why does this generate social and political change leading to a new power structure in society ? |