Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life . |
| 2 | Apprenticed to John Wilson ( no relation ) of Wilson , Wilkinson & Co. , iron merchants of 47 High Street , he was a junior clerk and then a traveller in the Sheffield district , promoting the sale of iron ore to the local industrialists . |
| 3 | For most people , a love of animals tends to extend to several pets , the odd donation and perhaps a rally . |
| 4 | He suggests using a deep-conditioning treatment once a week for dry hair and twice a month for oily hair . |
| 5 | I think we need not only a strong parliament but also a strong presidency . ’ |
| 6 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 7 | However , it is artistically total tosh and merely a vehicle for an imagination nowhere close to reaching puberty . |
| 8 | ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker . |
| 9 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 10 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 11 | So far I have left open the question of whether Maastricht is likely to prove to have been the high-water mark of European Federalism or merely a bench-mark against which to test future movement towards a Federalist state . |
| 12 | Since it is clear that the vocation of hermit was officially recognised in the fourteenth century , the account of Richard 's pursuit of his calling points to parental opposition and possibly a reluctance on Richard 's part to commit himself to any officially supervised licensing . |
| 13 | However , the country as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the liberal period of the late nineteenth century belonged to the German orbit and consequently a body of commercial law ( separate from general civil law ) was implanted in the form of a Commercial Code ( Statute 37 of 1875 ) following the principles of German commercial law . |
| 14 | If you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense , would n't it so the background if you like would be different would n't it with high rise and maybe a different . |
| 15 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 16 | MICHEL ROCARD , the former French premier and currently a contender for the presidency , won support yesterday for a plan call to scrap the battered Socialist Party and build a new centre-left movement . |
| 17 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 18 | For some women at this stage , cooking can become an absorbing hobby rather than the necessity of life it was when there were others to feed — a social pleasure or simply a personal indulgence . |
| 19 | There is no serious dissent from the general proposition that we should have a system which combines a thorough examination of all individual claims , a clear exposition of the criteria against which they are being assessed , all proper speed and then a clear decision , whether positive or negative , and an effective right of appeal before removal for those whose claims have been rejected . |
| 20 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 21 | He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child . |
| 22 | If the one we crossed this time was a steep climb and then a pleasant sweep into a warm green valley , and not the mountains of the moon , I was the better pleased , because although it was different it was also wonderful , and because I felt instinctively that the heights must be earned . |
| 23 | No lunch is provided and it does not take long to eat what little they bring — a bit of salad , some bread and maybe a hard-boiled egg . |
| 24 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |
| 25 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 26 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
| 27 | ( b ) Separate practice The decision must be taken as to whether the business of a new office is to be integrated with that of the main office or whether it is to be run ( or the extent to which it is to be run ) as a separate , self-financing enterprise or even a separate partnership but using the same firm-name . |
| 28 | This had long been the LRDG 's main base with clear water and even a few European houses . |
| 29 | Night at any rate you had fine , as we had , with a high clear moon & just a few stars lost here & there among folds of cloud . |
| 30 | How could there be an English policy seriously at odds with British policy and still a British policy worthy of the name ? |