Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It will be interesting to see whether current opinion confirms that historical evaluation or throws up masters due for a fuller reassessment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Were it possible for a further donation to be agreed at some point during 1993 , I should be most grateful . |
| 5 | With a new Prime Minister at the helm , the time was opportune for a further review of strategy to take account of these recent advances in weapon systems . |
| 6 | By careful timing , which is possible during a longer stay , you can avoid most of the crowds . |
| 7 | The cost of application alone is around £2000 and Zuccarelli has already paid an extra £500 to keep the application alive for a further stage of official examination . |
| 8 | The thatch is kept dry through a subtler technique . |
| 9 | In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis . |
| 10 | Ms Nancy Lazar , an economist at C.J. Lawrence , views this as a better measure than M2 , which is growing at a faster 6.1% year-on-year : deposits have been flowing out of savings and loan institutions , which do not show up in M2 , and into banks , which do . |
| 11 | Alfonso chose to see this as a further sign of Rodrigo 's pride ; once again the two men parted without reconciliation . |
| 12 | The second Conference on the Human Dimension was held in Copenhagen ( Denmark ) on June 5-29 as a further follow-up to the Vienna review session of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) [ for first conference in May-June 1989 see pp. 36749-50 ] . |
| 13 | 1 point for correct answer , 2 for a funnier headline |
| 14 | Prost was every bit as good at intra-team politics as Niki ; he was his equal in testing and perhaps slightly his superior ( as would be proper for a younger driver ) in combative driving . |
| 15 | He was looking to 1993 for a further drive into fresh markets . |
| 16 | We may pursue this through a further examination of primary problem . |
| 17 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 18 | In part , the new element of consumerism is reflective of a wider policy to bring market forces to bear in the field of state provision ( for example , in the health service and public transport ) . |
| 19 | Mechanical joins such as rivets are easily recognised but , from as early as 2500 BC in Sumer , smiths developed methods of joining one metal with another of a lower melting point . |
| 20 | On finally seeing these creatures , mating in the high forest canopy like cataracts of spun glass , we found them to be transparent with a deeper meaning , something which lay beyond them , in the undiscovered wisdom of the islanders themselves . |
| 21 | She feels it 's sad that Frankie died at a time when he was just becoming popular with a younger audience . |
| 22 | I did not dare take the whole brandy bottle , so I poured some into a smaller bottle to take away with me . |
| 23 | The ideal is to find a spot where at least one palm tree leans over the beach at a steep angle ( more about this in a later article ) . |
| 24 | We will speak more of this in a later chapter . |
| 25 | We shall have a good deal more to say about this in a later chapter . |
| 26 | Expand that up , you 'll end up with a normal inner leaflet to the membrane , a phospholipids but the outer the , er the outer layer is almost exclusively composed of this stuff , lycropolysacrulite I mentioned this in an earlier lecture but we need to go into in a little bit more detail . |
| 27 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 28 | The assumptions on which this conclusion is based will be made clear in a later paragraph . |
| 29 | I hoped that I had made that clear in an earlier answer . |
| 30 | However , no one with any sense gets involved with casual sex these days ; and I was simply not interested in a deeper relationship with anyone else but you . |