Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , there are often two different passives available when a sentence has a sequence noun + adjective following the verb ; for instance , the fourth example of the previous set can be linked either to ( 4 ) or to ( 5 ) : ( 4 ) the packages registered were sent by our lawyer ( 5 ) the packages were sent registered by our lawyer It is intuitively obvious that ( 4 ) corresponds to the postnominal attributive interpretation of ( 3 ) ( c ) , but ( 5 ) to the other intensional pattern introduced here . |
| 2 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a senior Japanese industrialist has made it clear that if the European Community adopts the social action programme it will be committing industrial suicide ? |
| 3 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union has just returned from Russia and the Ukraine ? |
| 4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a survey conducted recently among the top 200 companies in this country , many based in the north of England and in Yorkshire , showed that 86 per cent . |
| 5 | Is my hon. Friend aware that a large proportion of those employed in the south-west , and certainly in Devon , are part-time workers in residential homes ? |
| 6 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a significant number of my right hon. and hon. Friends are bitterly disappointed that during today 's Consolidated Fund Bill debate only one and a half hours have been allocated to discussing pension funds ? |
| 7 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a leading Northern Ireland member of his own party recently described security in the Province as a joke ? |
| 8 | ‘ Did you have a good time ? ’ my mother asked Robert as I whispered to Lili that I found old age unclean and a disgrace . |
| 9 | In the second year they continue with Housing Studies 2 , Social Policy 2 and a further social science course . |
| 10 | Provincial assemblies met thereafter always with clerical proctors present when a subsidy to the king was at issue and sometimes when it was not . |
| 11 | In the absence of detailed historical information other than a claim made by local hunters that great spotted cuckoos were absent from Guadix until 1962 ( ref. 8 ) , Soler and Möller assumed that cuckoos had only recently colonized the Guadix area . |
| 12 | His reference to the respondents having no alternative but to continue to pay and to Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton suggests that he was referring to payments made to avoid unpleasant consequences other than a simple action of payment . |
| 13 | A school cleaner married to a doctor is in Social Class I and a school cleaner married to a labourer is in Social Class V. A social classification system is one of the ways in which we can see how successful a society is in educating and sustaining the healthy life of its members . |
| 14 | ‘ You get a wee bit romantic and a wee bit depressed about it , but it 's not going to affect your job . |
| 15 | Instead , though , he lifted his head and looked down at her , his dark eyes bright and a faint flush of colour running along his cheekbones . |
| 16 | Its most celebrated visitor was Marguerite de Navarre , the grandmother of the future Henri IV and a royal author . |
| 17 | The consortium is using two reference systems : a Sun-made Sparcstation 2 and a Fujitsu-made DS/90-7000 server running UXP/DS , Fujitsu 's version of System V.4 . |
| 18 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 19 | Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only . |
| 20 | Er like i we if I saw a vase that was a little bit bigger and a bit more expensive than what you 'd have |
| 21 | Now , as far as my health is concerned these days it could be a little bit better but a bonny sight worse . |
| 22 | ‘ I might make a little bit more than a social worker and I get to enjoy myself with my clients ’ . |
| 23 | So that fellow Smallholders can each exchange their Smallholding and responsibilities with like minded anywhere in the country for little expense other than a registration fee , cost of food and petrol to get there . |
| 24 | A quarter of the tenements were freehold ; the rest were held by the normal Shropshire tenure of leases for three lives , with a large entry fine and a nominal annual rent . |
| 25 | Famous for its marketing campaign that guaranteed bug-free software — if you found a bug you could claim a VW Beetle from the company — Ready Systems embarked on an ambitious project two and a half years ago to build a completely new tool suite . |
| 26 | Mr Joe Mukwala , aged 32 , was sent to the Cummins engineering plant on the Yarm Road Industrial Estate by the African National Congress two and a half years ago . |
| 27 | The Congress ( I ) government headed by W. A. Sangma resigned in late March 1990 after a vote of no confidence was carried . |
| 28 | Precisely what is meant by ‘ any substantial finding of contributory negligence ’ is open to some dispute at present , the view having been expressed by one judge that any contributory negligence greater than a minimal amount , must be substantial and hence prevent any interim payment . |
| 29 | Dexter shook his long limbs loose and a frown of puzzlement bunched his forehead . |
| 30 | Exploratory talks were held in Beijing on in November and December [ see pp. 37860 ; 37818 ] , after which a first round of full normalization talks was held in Pyongyang in late January 1991 and a second in Tokyo in mid-March [ see p. 38098 ] . |