Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning from exile to head the newly formed Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , Prestes was imprisoned for nine years in 1935 for leading an unsuccessful uprising against the dictator Getúlio Vargas ( 1930-45 ) and on his release was elected to the Senate with the highest personal vote of any candidate . |
| 2 | People do n't get fined anything like that for mugging an old lady . ’ |
| 3 | I think it 's a sad indictment of our so called democratic system when they are afraid of having an elected head of state , that they are afraid that we might have a dictator ! |
| 4 | What is wrong with regarding an authoritative directive as one additional prima facie reason for the action it directs , which supplements , rather than supplants , the other reasons for and against that action ? |
| 5 | It is accepted without great horror , and particularly in the upper-class world in which Profumo mixed , that there is nothing wrong in having an extra-marital relationship . |
| 6 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 7 | For whilst France was interested in pursuing an atomic energy authority ( EURATOM ) she had little interest , at first , in Beyen 's idea of common market . |
| 8 | It is more than an atlas : it is a superbly illustrated synopsis of the characteristics of the major tropical diseases , their infective agents , their ecology , their life cycles and their vectors … probably the best value for money for anyone interested in obtaining an illustrated guide to tropical medicine and medical parasitology . " |
| 9 | Due to changes in the demographic structure , there will be an increase in the number of people of pensionable age who are still able to make and interested in making an active contribution to society . |
| 10 | Whilst studying at the College , Frank was instrumental in bringing an unconscious man round , and was henceforth known to his fellow-students as ‘ the doctor ’ , and every day thereafter had some ‘ visits ’ to make . |
| 11 | Congress , rule A five seeks to debar the unemployed from taking an active role in this organization . |
| 12 | We must not again get into the situation where the working of our Garden Records system was dependent on keeping an obsolete computer going well past its normal expected lifetime . |
| 13 | We can test this by considering an alternative opening : |
| 14 | With the ‘ minimum ’ quantity rule , unexpectedly high levels of aggregate demand do not raise output above y n but unexpectedly low levels of aggregate demand will depress output below y n ( the reader may wish to verify this by imagining an actual aggregate demand curve to the left of AD ) . |
| 15 | If a court feels that a particular act which is not authorized by statute requires positive legal authorization , it may be able to achieve this by extending an existing prerogative power into a new area . |
| 16 | His attempt to achieve this by incorporating an intrinsic moral quality into the concept of lex , however , is not entirely convincing . |
| 17 | They recognise this by observing an involuntary accumulation of their stocks of unsold goods . |
| 18 | Thus , Kurt got away with receiving stolen goods to the value of £3 10s by pleading an unselfish motivation to help his girlfriend and her three-month-old baby , while Nissi , whose bearing ‘ was very humble and apologetic ’ , was discharged after being caught red-handed taking cigarettes from a bombed-out tobacconist 's . |
| 19 | The government responded in September 1903 by appointing an interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration . |
| 20 | As will be seen in Chapter four , those who , like Frederick Shaw , try to by-pass the law by publishing a directory or ‘ contact magazine ’ , could be guilty of publishing an obscene article , living off the earnings of prostitution , and conspiring to corrupt public morals . |
| 21 | The commuter was prosecuted , found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon , and fined . |
| 22 | The Sun newspaper was offering to fund a private prosecution against a doctor whom it believed to be guilty of raping an eight year old girl . |
| 23 | Neville and his co-defendants James Anderson and Felix Dennis , were found guilty in 1971 of publishing an obscene article , namely OZ 28 , otherwise known as Schoolkids ' OZ , and were given prison sentences ranging from nine to fifteen months . |
| 24 | Although VSAM will handle it sequentially , the situation is similar to that of providing an independent overflow area in ISAM and should be avoided whenever possible . |
| 25 | This should not reduce the usefulness of the reference , since the prime function of a citation is that of referring an interested reader to another work rather than that of publicly applauding the contribution of individual authors . |
| 26 | For the moment the issue of affiliation was subordinated to that of forming an electoral alliance against the National Government . |
| 27 | As well as paving , Rocstone produces some attractive Victorian-style tiles — perfect for creating an elegant floor in a conservatory , or for adding a touch of class . |
| 28 | 10.8.12 In respect of licences granted under intellectual property rights the licensor shall , at the request and coat of the licensee , execute and do all such deeds , acts matters and thins as are requisite for securing an official registration of such licenses . |
| 29 | For example , family responsibilities such as helping an elderly relative with shopping , or parents and children being unconvinced about the quality and relevance of what the school has to offer make regular attendance seem less important . |
| 30 | You can create many different patterns , such as hanging an oval picture between two rectangular pictures . |