Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wo n't get complete protection from a UPS-on-a-card . |
| 2 | If extended , this means that talk of a citizens charter is utter nonsense . |
| 3 | I have asked a couple of guys at the college you know and one fellow said the tray , oh he said , you can buy this tray from a builders , oh he said you can make a , a cover and I said oh god , make it the same colour as the mat and the er |
| 4 | Then she , too , was driven at very high speed to a police station on mainland Orkney for interrogation . |
| 5 | A full enquiry has been launched into how a rapist was able to attack an eleven-year old girl in a children 's ward at a London hospital . |
| 6 | Why is the Department pussyfooting around , extending the role of the Economic and Social Research Council — which does an entirely different job — instead of accepting the original recommendation of the British Academy for a humanities research council ? |
| 7 | Er , by all means , go , go through all this stuff in a weeks ' time and throw out th , those things you do n't need . |
| 8 | They used to be just another attraction at a children 's zoo — but then they learned to trampoline . |
| 9 | Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) . |
| 10 | Remembering that anything that bodes to threaten concentration in wood-machining is a prime risk , let us consider a router cutter revolving at anything up to 24,000rpm sitting midway between 12 highly unstably-sprung devices whose proper purpose in life is the support of wet laundry on a clothes line . |
| 11 | She had her first meeting this morning with a textiles importer called Colin Weatherhead , who had promised to show her a range of fabrics he was positive she was going to love . |
| 12 | Erm , I 'd just like to ask Sir Leonard whether the nature of the issues that are dealt with by environmental organisations , erm , indeed arguments such as pays etc. erm , introduces a difference in the nature of the relationship between the private sector and environmental N G Os , particularly when the issues that we promote , such as su the sustainable use of the world resources and the reduction of environmental degradation can have a direct impact on a companies bottom line . |
| 13 | A British delegate to a teachers ' convention on sex education held in the United States , posed the question , ‘ Why have sex education in our schools ? |
| 14 | A High Court judge reserved judgment until later this week on a damages claim by the family of Paul Worrell , aged 21 , who hanged himself at Brixton Prison , London , in 1982 . |
| 15 | An imposing table which graced Darlington Football Club boardroom was offered for sale this week by a Quakers fan . |
| 16 | One interesting example of a GIS approach to flood damage estimation is the ANUFLOOD package which was developed in the early 1980s following detailed flood damage studies for flood-prone coastal towns in northern New South Wales , Australia ( Smith and Greenaway , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | This experience of combining special make-up with puppets or models , unusual in Smith 's career , nonetheless illustrates the peculiar calling of a special-effects make-up artist , and the variety of skills he ( occasionally she ) needs or has to call on to do the job . |
| 18 | From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves . |
| 19 | TODAY we 're giving you the chance to sample the carefree life of a pools winner — in the fabulous West Indies . |
| 20 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 21 | I like the way I dress , though , I 've always had this thing for a sports look , that 's what I 'm aiming for . |
| 22 | But with police assistance , out went the occupiers , off to set up the one and only edition of the International Free Press from a distributors ' warehouse off Old Street . |
| 23 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 24 | One of the earliest to be shown was the 1950 film Caged , screened on ITV in 1968 : this featured Hope Emerson as a mannish , sadistic matron in a women 's prison . |
| 25 | I went back to the country earlier this year on a human-rights delegation , with no political affiliations . |
| 26 | West Ham 's assistant manager Harry Redknapp has been another victim of a fans ' fit-up . |
| 27 | Helped to some extent by a profits upgrading from James Capel ( Amstrad 's broker ) , shares rose to 87p in the spring . |
| 28 | In general , the rigorous derivation of a savings function by this route is likely to be complex , but in Section 8–4 we consider a simple two-period life-cycle model illustrative of this line of argument . |
| 29 | And a hummingbird was building its woolly nest with some material from a visitors hat . |
| 30 | I mean like with Kevin and Bill , we negotiated but even that we would n't talk about their professional work as a careers officer |