Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who find in that formulation a description of authentic Co-operation will be content with his verdict . |
| 2 | In due course a hotel in Suceava had reported that two English tourists had failed to return . |
| 3 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 4 | They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock . |
| 5 | The House of Lords gave its decision against " The Sunday Times " in July 1973 , and the European Court did not declare that decision a breach of the Convention until April 1979 — a delay of almost six years . |
| 6 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 7 | At each Hour a verse from the hymn is followed by a prayer which acknowledges this and sees the Incarnation as the means by which all men , both living and dead , can be united : The office thus daily rehearsed the historical story of the Passion of Christ and its significance in such a way that it is constantly renewed in human awareness through both the linear and cyclical experience of the passing of time . |
| 8 | His own understanding of the poem , however , was a quite different thing and , as he explained to Anne Ridler , there was no central meaning , since he had attempted to find a method of uniting on an emotional level a variety of elements which were otherwise quite unrelated . |
| 9 | Flipping the towel over his shoulder , he raked his fingers through his spikily tousled hair a couple of times , restoring it to rough order . |
| 10 | When subjects had to concurrently hold in memory two or four nouns on each trial a superiority of the RVF emerged . |
| 11 | This is parallel to the gradient of acceptability which emerged from Harris 's results , and Labov attempted to accommodate the tendency of speakers to avoid making absolute judgements by asking them to assign to each sentence a score on a four-point scale , as follows : |
| 12 | Assume in each case a PSBR of £1 billion . |
| 13 | Such exchange might take place by using money , by bartering for other goods , or as gifts , but in each case a change in ownership of the goods takes place . |
| 14 | In each case a number of issues arose , some of which were resolved , as they attempted to modify their classroom practice . |
| 15 | In that case a plurality of outstanding votes suffices for a candidate ( or occasionally more than one candidate ) to be declared elected . |
| 16 | In that case a creditor of the husband threatened the institution of bankruptcy proceedings but agreed to desist if the debtor 's wife provided certain security for the debt . |
| 17 | In that case a conviction of a manager for an insolvent certificate-holder , who had granted a trust deed , of having trafficked " without having a certificate " was suspended . |
| 18 | In that case a clause in an agreement between a company and its manager stated that he should receive a fixed salary , and , as soon as the profits for the year had been ascertained and certified by the company 's auditors , a percentage of " the net profits ( if any ) of the company for the whole year " . |
| 19 | In that case a shortfall in one instalment will normally only justify a rejection of that one instalment . |
| 20 | In that case a lease for a period of six months from 10 June 1920 was expressed to continue from half year to half year until determined . |
| 21 | as if to increase my terror , there came at that instant a pause in the electric war overhead . |
| 22 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 23 | Even in 1995 , the two direct trains in each direction a day between the North-East and the continent will follow the tortuous North London line , circuiting the capital via Kensington and Clapham Junction . |
| 24 | In one much-quoted case a holding of 30 acres in the manor of Plumpton , increased in scale value by nearly three hundred per cent in the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | She paying eleven pound a week for that house in |
| 26 | Held in Villa Grimaldi building , once a torture centre where many Chilean disappeared prisoners were detained under Gen. Augusto Pinochet " s 1973-90 military regime , the meeting ended on Nov. 11 with the decision to create a " network for life " throughout Latin America , aimed at the rapid denunciation of cases of disappearance whenever they occurred , and at the achievement of international legislation declaring the repressive practice a crime against humanity . |
| 27 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
| 28 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 29 | round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol |
| 30 | So , to test their intelligence we decided to show each horse a plate of oats , and while it was still watching to place the food inside the ring of the tire with the empty feed bucket on top . |