Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us . |
| 2 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 3 | Perhaps underused as a source of prospects , the press is nevertheless important . |
| 4 | Or else she would turn round , as though sensing my gaze on her skin , and for a moment as brief and yet momentous as a pause in music our eyes talked dirty . |
| 5 | In the Masters of 1960 he finished with 70 for a total of 283 and celebrated ‘ victory ’ . |
| 6 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 7 | Now when I said you were very good at it I said what 's fifty as a fraction of one fifty ? |
| 8 | Before I start , I would like to draw out two birthday titles , both paperback originals and both due for a lot of press coverage . |
| 9 | ‘ This afternoon we were — are — due for a walk to Ramsgate . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Are you by any chance due for a visit from the tax man or the VAT inspector in the near future ? ’ |
| 11 | She was due for a snack at three , followed by another blood-sugar reading , and Belinda had planned to spend the time until then reading up on some aspects of prenatal care that she felt hazy on . |
| 12 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 13 | Some of the works were presented in 1971 as a sign of solidarity with Allende 's government , the rest were donated after the coup d'état . |
| 14 | This motion is shown on the left of Fig. 10.1 for a set of test masses originally at rest in a circle in the xy plane : their displacements are followed over a complete cycle . |
| 15 | In the stanchions the lashing is a figure of eight through a hole in the stanchion and two eye bolts fixed into the false runners . |
| 16 | Johnson was furious Northern second row Karl Fairbank was n't sent-off for a challenge on full-back Rob Myler . |
| 17 | First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction . |
| 18 | But it is not right for a member of the teaching staff to so present that disciplinary framework that the student is unable to view it from the outside or is discouraged from officering an alternative perspective from another discipline . |
| 19 | The day was suitably misty , just right for a trip to the ‘ healing ’ stones of Men an Tol . |
| 20 | Number 133 , women 's clothes and hosiery from Paris , with garments displayed in the window that Charlie did n't consider it was right for a man to be looking at . |
| 21 | It was n't right for a man in his position to be kept in the dark . |
| 22 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |
| 23 | However , if a church member asks whether or not it is right for a Christian to be hypnotised , I have to give a negative answer . |
| 24 | The conditions seemed right for a repetition of the French Revolution on English soil . |
| 25 | And it is not right for a family to be separated . ’ |
| 26 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 27 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air , and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 28 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 29 | Richard 's horses were too exhausted for a pursuit to be possible . |
| 30 | A MAN hanged himself in his bedroom after he became depressed about a break-up with his girlfriend . |