Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students are selected to take part in the four regional finals which involve preparing the menu in cook-offs , and from each regional final a student team is selected for the grand final . |
| 2 | In normal character-printing mode a program sends instructions to the printer to print a character string in a form such as PRINT ‘ ( message ) ’ and the printer hardware selects the appropriate dot patterns for each of the characters in the character string ‘ ( message ) ’ . |
| 3 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 4 | ‘ Religious objections , if you can call that superstitious rubbish a religion . |
| 5 | Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman a question about which I gave notice to his office earlier this morning ? |
| 6 | Might it not also be possible to find the right hon. Gentleman a researcher who can at least draft a simple apology ? |
| 7 | About eight or 10 chief constables are not asking for an increase in police forces for next year — — and I shall be glad to send the right hon. Gentleman a list . |
| 8 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 9 | The University has been allocated from the European Social Fund a number of training grants tenable on the following full-time postgraduate courses : |
| 10 | In this broad extent a number of influences are apparent from the domed churches of Périgord with their Byzantine inspiration to the richly coloured buildings in volcanic materials in the Auvergne . |
| 11 | Anything that is a cause , then , is in this clear sense a power , a power to produce an effect . |
| 12 | Juliet visualised him standing in Sister 's office , his soft brown eyes concerned and tender , his curly brown hair a bit ruffled , a smile at the corner of his mouth . |
| 13 | But as I argued earlier , there is in every social scientific theory a component which Schumpeter called ‘ vision ’ , but which could also be described as the background ideas in a paradigm , that is influential in determining the focus of attention and the choice of central issues for analysis . |
| 14 | From at least 1805 , therefore , there existed within the French foreign ministry a bureau which collected details of foreign armies and navies and their movements . |
| 15 | The exchange may take this multilateral system a step further and contract with individual traders , as well as the member firms that employ them . |
| 16 | The details of this are complex and will not be discussed here ; it is enough to give an account of this so-called fideicommissum a debitore relictum in the context of indirect words . |
| 17 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 18 | Chestvale was a subsidiary of UPH and by this simple device a tax saving of almost £300,000 was made . |
| 19 | Most people visit the town to ride on the Pichi Richi Railway a service operated through the Flinders Ranges by a veteran steam locomotive known as the " Coffee Pot " . |
| 20 | To this annual cost a multiplier appropriate to other forms of continuing future expense should be applied . |
| 21 | It was not so much the kite design , rather , the principle of moving the centre of lift as the lines were pulled that made this early application a forecast of today 's steering methods . |
| 22 | It also cost the German central bank a guarantee of a fixed future rate of conversion of dollars into marks . |
| 23 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 24 | To eliminate rec A-dependent recombination as one cause of this genetic instability a rec A derivative of E.coli C ( E.coli C3-6 ) was used as a host for both recombinant plasmids . |
| 25 | But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all . |
| 26 | When he came into office George Bush set out to make this national characteristic a centrepiece of his domestic policy , referring to ‘ a thousand points of light ’ . |
| 27 | But she also remembered to ask for another ten-shilling note a week later . |
| 28 | If you are not already collecting these for some good cause a teacher has drawn attention to the following Association which will be glad to receive them ‘ British Kidney Patients Association ’ , Bordon , Hampshire . |
| 29 | James Prior went to the Department of Employment ; in the words of one critic , Jock Bruce-Gardyne , he was to make this key department a citadel of ‘ unrepentant corporatism ’ . |
| 30 | Captain Tony Adams had promised Arsenal were ready ‘ to give some unlucky team a tonking ’ , and only the woodwork and some slack second-half finishing ensured it was n't Coventry , although their unbeaten away record was comprehensively shredded . |