Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Edward Stanley Baker , who died at Great Dunmow , Essex on March 15 at the age of 81 , played 32 matches for Worcestershire in 1933 and 1934 as an amateur wicket-keeper with 40 victims .
2 Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat .
3 But it is far more worthwhile than being polite about an old alliance , and equipping it with new ‘ pillars ’ that crumble when the next unexpected bugle sounds .
4 London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 .
5 In the light of recent scares about pesticide residues in food , nitrates in drinking water , and food poisoning in eggs , cheese and other foods , it seems that agricultural standards are due for an urgent review .
6 The award , worth £20,000 , is given to ‘ a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding June 1992 ’ and was granted by a jury consisting of Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude-Beaud , director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain , Robert Hopper , director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Sarah Kent , art critic of Time Out magazine and Howard Karshan , representative of the patrons of New Art .
7 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 .
8 It is to be subjective about an objective situation .
9 Lord Ackner felt that the route did not cease to be available simply because it was not possible for an unaccompanied child to walk it without danger .
10 I am sure it must be possible for an adolescent girl to reconcile the male and the female sets of anxieties .
11 Each unit represents a wide range of investments , spreading the risk to an extent that 's normally not possible for an individual investor .
12 The question is whether it was possible for an ancient Athenian to possess a social representation in this sense , or whether we have to wait until the modern age for social representations to appear .
13 In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline .
14 The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data .
15 How is it possible for an external symbol , as well as one in the internal representational medium of the creature 's mind , to be employed by one animal and perceived by another as a request for a specific tool ?
16 At the Court of Wards the Tooke family were making the office of auditor hereditary in the last years of Elizabeth , but it was still possible for an active reformer like John Hare to be appointed Clerk ; inexperienced men began to be appointed to offices in this court under James .
17 In Britain it is possible for an educational institution to obtain a licence to record a very limited range of programmes categorised as educational .
18 And see whether or not there is basis for an agreement on that because if it is possible to get an agreement on that it is infinitely easier to persuade the government that regulations have to be written which cover all of these issues and cover all of the sectors and that therefore makes it easier to create a situation in which it is not possible for an independent company that wish to ignore the good practice guidelines to simply go ahead and do so .
19 Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ?
20 The trouble is that the newer pilots , and many of the older ones , cruise their engines at too high an rpm and often leave their mixture rich during an entire flight
21 The audio connections are made in a similar way to that used for an audio dub , except that the source-machine is now a camcorder ( or a VCR ) .
22 This is encouraged and made possible through an international network .
23 In TRACE II , recovery is possible through an anti-clockwise circle of excitation .
24 A LORRY driver who felt sorry for an unwanted calf stole animal feed to keep it alive .
25 ( Silcott remained in prison , to complete a separate life sentence imposed in 1986 for an unrelated murder committed in 1984 . )
26 If the lavatory is too low for an elderly person , a raised polypropylene toilet seat which fits over it , but is easy to remove and to wash , can be very useful , and a chromium-plated hand-grip fixed very securely to the wall at the side of the lavatory can also be helpful .
27 He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began .
28 Presumably efficient and discreet as an administrative organizer and record keeper , his were less successful essays into political propaganda , on behalf of the regime against its radical critics , the Levellers .
29 One looks in vain for an alternative vision of the State 's role in relation to the arts .
30 They wanted 79 for an unexpected triumph ; but then Wessels , after a true captain 's innings , failed to add to his overnight 74 when Lara held a superb stooping slip catch off Walsh .
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