Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 22nd Gracey 's forces assisted the French in what , despite what was claimed at the time and subsequently , was an almost bloodless coup by which they occupied the Town Hall and other central points ; and two nights after that about a hundred and fifty French civilians , including many women and children , were massacred by Vietnamese who burst into the Cite Heraud district past indifferent Japanese guards . |
| 2 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
| 3 | The question might be raised whether a surgeon 's callousness is after all even a local violation of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 4 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 5 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 6 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 7 | TENNIS : Chris Wilkinson has leapt 27 places to a career-best world ranking of 168 following a successful four weeks on the LTA Satellite Circuit . |
| 8 | ‘ The substantial improvement we reported for 1992 has continued in the first three months of 1993 following a further sharp reduction in our worldwide underwriting deficit . |
| 9 | Margaret Charlwood started her movement career at the age of six following a serious road accident which it was feared would permanently limit the movement of her legs — eleven years later she won a scholarship to the Arts Educational School in London where she studied all forms of dance , specialising in ballet . |
| 10 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 11 | As far as companies are concerned , in 1990 there were over one million on the register in Great Britain , but of these only a little more than one per cent were public companies . |
| 12 | Of these only a few are not currently employed by one or other of the companies . |
| 13 | The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness . |
| 14 | In scores of other towns , on the other hand , the market places have been partly built over , so that one gets a broad main street , a block of buildings down one side and behind that again a narrow street running parallel to the main street . |
| 15 | Compared with 1970 , the Liberal vote nearly trebled : at over six million , this vote represented more than half of the votes going to each of the main parties against little over a sixth in 1970 . |
| 16 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 17 | Hastings Kamuzu Banda , Malawi 's ruler since independence , was proclaimed Life President in 1971 following a constitutional amendment . |
| 18 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 19 | A joint venture goes further than co-operation , in that generally a new business entity is created , but falls short of a full merger of the parents , who remain independent . |
| 20 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
| 21 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 22 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 23 | In Togo coffee farmers were paid in 1980 only a third of the export price for their crop , the Bank points out . |
| 24 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 25 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 26 | This had been demonstrated by the rise in US imports of manufactured goods , which rocketed by 27 per cent in 1972 following a 20 per cent rise in 1971 : ‘ it was evident that industry abroad was making major adjustments and marketing efforts to enlarge its share of the US market ’ ( Gilbert , 1980 , p. 105 ) . |
| 27 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 28 | By the time he retired in 1914 nearly a million men , women , and children had held membership , often briefly . |
| 29 | Indeed , the historical emergence of the local state in Britain as a set of distinct institutions , was characterized by its support for production and capital accumulation , and before 1914 only a third of local authority expenditure could be classified as social consumption ( Dunleavy , 1984 , p. 76 ) . |
| 30 | though the Conservative government were able , in 1981 , to amend the GDO to increase the scope of permitted development from 10 to 15 per cent , the Labour government ‘ were forced to withdraw similar proposals in 1977 following a spirited battle in the House of Lords ’ . |