Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than speaking of the seeds of ideological doubt sown in Nizan 's mind , it is more appropriate to envisage 1934 as a necessary stage in Nizan 's deepening awareness of social reality ; the gradual abandonment , in other words , of a stylised and exaggerated picture of reality , and a progressive movement towards a recognition of the unpredictability and complexity of the social world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A miner 's resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute , compared with about 70 for a typical male . |
| 4 | Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green . |
| 5 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 6 | The inclusion of the retired as a separate group added a socio-demographic element to the typology and , although the classification was two-dimensional , the two axes were not considered to be independent . |
| 7 | It will be interesting to see whether current opinion confirms that historical evaluation or throws up masters due for a fuller reassessment . |
| 8 | But he insisted that they were due for a cold meal yesterday . |
| 9 | His best friend was due for a bad let-down , and it was he who would have to spell it out for him . |
| 10 | Rafferty , 45 , is due for a huge royalty cheque . |
| 11 | Joining Rhenania in 1971 as a Forwarding Manager in Heilbronn , he became Manager of Spendition Schneider in 1984 . |
| 12 | UNLUCKY 13th minute for Millwall 's Malcolm Allen — sent-off for a tough tackle in the game against his former club Watford . |
| 13 | The sermon was on 2 Corinthians 5:17 which is a wonderful verse and exactly right for a New year . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not right for a married woman to have a man in the house and he not her husband , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Some people would even question whether it is any longer right for a married woman to be expected to depend on her husband and to be unable to claim SB in her own right . |
| 16 | ‘ The scene does not seem right for a 1987 style crash , but the more cautious will be dusting off the chartist 's recommendations to see which shares can still be sold . ’ |
| 17 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 18 | If the sound is right for a certain combination of musicians , or a certain style of music , then obviously you play better , but I do n't think there are very many people who have their sound , and go from one band to another just using that sound . |
| 19 | It 's not right for a young girl . |
| 20 | The time is always right for a good idea , even if it 's not your own . |
| 21 | Simple pure cotton knitted sweater in white , brilliantly patterned with abstract motifs hand embroidered in primary shades of turquoise , gold and orange , just right for a sunny day with a bit of a breeze ! |
| 22 | An artist can never have seen too much , read too much , and even if the time is right for a fallow period , then that is exactly when it is also right to go out and see , read , feel , as deeply as possible . |
| 23 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 24 | Surely it can not be right for a foreign company , faced with recession and a lack of profitability at home , in Sweden , to cut its overseas operations and , in doing so , close down the United Kingdom 's strategic bus manufacturing plant . |
| 25 | The family who live there have always felt the castle 's gardens were just right for a musical performance . |
| 26 | The city council , backed by the government , announced on Friday that it would stop distributing the food aid that has kept Sarajevans alive during a ten-month siege until convoys reached eastern Bosnia . |
| 27 | He flashed a sudden stunning smile and Robyn felt weak as a new surge of exhilaration raced through her . |
| 28 | But the show did give UK users a first chance to see Borland 's Paradox for Windows , Lotus 's Freelance Graphics 2 and its revolutionary new Windows spreadsheet , Improv ( see page 97 for a full review ) . |
| 29 | Instead an intelligence officer had ploughed through Mills ' personal effects and leafed through a random selection of files . |
| 30 | The organization 's market share had been relatively stable for a long time and even growing in concert with the growth in world economies . |