Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 2 | It will be interesting to see whether current opinion confirms that historical evaluation or throws up masters due for a fuller reassessment . |
| 3 | The Human League 's snappy pop songs , drum machines and synthesisers were the embodiment of ‘ electro-pop ’ , the new teenage esperanto ; while Collins ' sleek , craftsmanlike records were the perfect palliative for an older generation of listeners , turned off by punk rock , whose interest in pop music would be rekindled by the coming phenomenon of the compact disc . |
| 4 | Were it possible for a further donation to be agreed at some point during 1993 , I should be most grateful . |
| 5 | No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired . |
| 6 | It was not possible for the NFER project team to study in any detail the role of investigative work in a graduated test scheme , partly because few schools associated with the project had gone very far towards introducing it into their curricula . |
| 7 | With a new Prime Minister at the helm , the time was opportune for a further review of strategy to take account of these recent advances in weapon systems . |
| 8 | By careful timing , which is possible during a longer stay , you can avoid most of the crowds . |
| 9 | By the way , you were quite right about the higher price — dedicated gamesplayers do n't mind paying that little extra , especially for that whole lot more . |
| 10 | This is less practicable for the smaller firm , but all firms should incorporate in their selection procedures a judgment on whether an applicant 's educational background appears to fit him or her as a candidate for the examinations . |
| 11 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 12 | The cost of application alone is around £2000 and Zuccarelli has already paid an extra £500 to keep the application alive for a further stage of official examination . |
| 13 | The thatch is kept dry through a subtler technique . |
| 14 | In this case , the explanation for the stronger main features , for which , must match that for the weaker high-velocity features . |
| 15 | Re-entry into the labour force after child-rearing was less usual for the older group than for the younger ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) and therefore fewer would have had pensionable paid employment in the years before retirement . |
| 16 | In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis . |
| 17 | If this is true of young children it must be even easier for the older child who is in a much better position to discriminate between different types of relationships . |
| 18 | Hund 's Rules will usually give the ground term correctly , but they are less reliable for the higher energy states . |
| 19 | Ms Nancy Lazar , an economist at C.J. Lawrence , views this as a better measure than M2 , which is growing at a faster 6.1% year-on-year : deposits have been flowing out of savings and loan institutions , which do not show up in M2 , and into banks , which do . |
| 20 | Alfonso chose to see this as a further sign of Rodrigo 's pride ; once again the two men parted without reconciliation . |
| 21 | We advise this as the higher limit . |
| 22 | You should find it easy to consume 35g of fibre daily , and we suggest this as the lower limit in order to achieve the slimming benefits described in the previous chapters . |
| 23 | Moreover , smoother driving is as much a characteristic of Tempo 30 as the lower overall speeds , as Döldissen has shown ( Figure 6.30 ) . |
| 24 | The second Conference on the Human Dimension was held in Copenhagen ( Denmark ) on June 5-29 as a further follow-up to the Vienna review session of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) [ for first conference in May-June 1989 see pp. 36749-50 ] . |
| 25 | 1 point for correct answer , 2 for a funnier headline |
| 26 | ‘ But we do n't have many holiday houses lying empty for the better part of the year , ’ said one local , proudly . |
| 27 | Prost was every bit as good at intra-team politics as Niki ; he was his equal in testing and perhaps slightly his superior ( as would be proper for a younger driver ) in combative driving . |
| 28 | He was looking to 1993 for a further drive into fresh markets . |
| 29 | We may pursue this through a further examination of primary problem . |
| 30 | It has also given legal effect to the judicial monitoring procedure , but there is no accountability of the Commissioner to Parliament despite the concern about this type of procedure which was raised in public after the Massiter affair . |