Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you 've got every right to pontificate on the on the hunting even though you do n't live there er , Mr I du n no , barbarism , is this , is this for the Labour a free vote . |
| 2 | The working of the Contagious Diseases Acts themselves also served to mobilise many a radical working man against the exploitation of working-class women , and an important alliance developed between this radicalism and feminists , which had the additional effect of providing for the latter a social support which enhanced their authority within the repeal movement . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure where it 's gone today , but for the energetic a new book of Oxfordshire rambles has just arrived in the bookshop . |
| 4 | This is a double alienation and for the Christian a curious kind of worldliness of mind . |
| 5 | During the 1920s a terminal building was built , with capacity to deal with 10,000 passengers an hour . |
| 6 | In education there was during the 1960s a gradual shift towards comprehensive secondary schooling partly prompted by a ( false ) belief that such schooling would help eradicate the worst ine-qualities ( class , not gender ) of the tripartite system , as shown by researchers in the sociology of education ( see Finn , Grant and Johnson , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | During the 1980s a strong Steering Committee has developed , which reflects on and plans the programme . |
| 8 | During the 1930s a strong pacifist movement came into being which was not tied to a major party although most of its supporters were Labour or Liberal voters . |
| 9 | During the mid-Seventies a major study in Burkina Faso ( then Upper Volta ) investigated the reasons why hundreds and thousands of young men leave the country each year to look for employment in Ivory Coast . |
| 10 | Acclaimed as a Pre-Raphaelite painter by this school 's chief commentator W. M. Rossetti [ q.v. ] in 1871 , she became during the 1870s a recognized member of that group of artists seen by critics to be following in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel Rossetti [ q.v. ] and Burne-Jones . |
| 11 | During the Seventies a hazy eroticism was on offer every week , courtesy of Pan 's People in their gold Lurex hot pants . |
| 12 | There was , however , he suggests , a shift away from legal moralism , and through the reformist legislation of the 1960s a certain amount of ‘ piecemeal moral engineering ’ was achieved . |
| 13 | In the ‘ baby boom ’ of the 1960S a whole generation of children were reared on Dr Spock and a belief in the right of self-expression . |
| 14 | Gauguin 's chair , an ample , armed chair , was painted in the dark against a lamplit green wall " in dark brown-red wood , the seat of greenish rush , and in the place of the absent a lighted candle and two modern novels " . |
| 15 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 16 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 17 | The complex nature of the autistic handicap and the individual behaviour of the autistic child has made the education of the autistic a difficult task . |
| 18 | Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ? |
| 19 | In the decade of the 1950s a new series of county histories was initiated under the heading The Darwen Series , after its founder Lord Darwen . |
| 20 | This was by no means an accident , since throughout the 1970s a powerful body of media , political , and academic opinion had been constructed around the theme of how Britain was drifting into a ‘ violent society ’ , and how the basis of consent was being shifted by the pressures of immigration and the growth of multi-racial inner city areas . |
| 21 | Throughout the 1930s a Conservative-dominated National Government was in power . |
| 22 | That there would be areas within those sectors which would be suitable for a new a new settlement . |
| 23 | Er for a mobile a mobile unit . |
| 24 | For one he has created an office , for another a library and for a third a single piece of furniture . |
| 25 | — Also this week , BR branded as a fake a leaked document which claimed to reveal plans to close vital lines in Cleveland and County Durham . |
| 26 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 27 | Both Armstrong and Harrison played through school together , with the former a doughty scrum-half , and the latter an intelligent out-half with a hefty boot . |
| 28 | But even but even in that case we did have er did have a case with a young a youngish lad who his accountant had written it |
| 29 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 30 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |