Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All five patients receiving oral cyclosporin had a remission but relapse occurred within three months of discontinuing the drug . |
| 2 | Not only can the more elongated whelks withdraw further into their shells , sometimes disappearing completely from view , but also the narrow aperture prevents a crab from obtaining a satisfactory purchase on the lip with its chela ( Vermeij , 1974 ; Hughes and Elner , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | If the odd buyer hits a software bug , well , bad luck , call us and we 'll talk you through it . |
| 4 | One assumption is that any intelligent species will in due course develop a technology , just as we have done . |
| 5 | It is also intended in due course to hold a number of open meetings in various places in the U.K. which I hope many Members will be able to attend . |
| 6 | As between the three common law Inns the choice does not really matter : you can quite well be a member of one Inn , become a pupil in chambers belonging to a second , and in due course attain a seat in chambers belonging to a third . |
| 7 | It was through this most improbable passage of Scripture , taken home to her by the Spirit , that she in due course became a Christian . |
| 8 | I have my doubts about this one but you may in due course get a proposal from him . |
| 9 | But here , if you were caught preparing an escape , the worst that could happen to you was fourteen days solitary confinement with books and writing materials , and it was often a pleasant change to spend a fortnight by yourself after months of compulsory association . |
| 10 | On Dec. 18 the Georgian parliament issued a statement suspending the second round of Russian-Georgian talks on bilateral relations currently under way in Moscow and recalling Georgia 's delegation . |
| 11 | Then in July 1966 the Welsh Nationalists won a by-election at Carmarthen and in November 1967 the Scottish National Party overturned a 16,000 Labour majority to win a by-election at Hamilton . |
| 12 | America acted despite a last-ditch plea to avert a world trade war by Michael Heseltine last night . |
| 13 | A LAST-DITCH plea to avert a world trade war was made by Michael Heseltine last night . |
| 14 | The professional correspondent became a stock figure in farces and films . |
| 15 | The Gulf crisis and economic recession prompted a fall in the number of individual working days lost through industrial action from 904,000 days in 1989 to 693,700 in 1990 — the lowest level of industrial action since 1946 according to a Labour Ministry report of late June 1991 . |
| 16 | In all these areas — the unions , the local authorities , the Church , the media , the universities and schools — the paradox was that a government notionally dedicated to extending individualism and the private ethic became a champion of greater centralization and state control . |
| 17 | We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through . |
| 18 | Lanham 's view that rape can be a perfectly understandable and forgivable way of dealing with the problems of a marriage echoes that expressed by Lord Dunedin in 1924 in a matrimonial case involving a wife who refused to consummate her marriage . |
| 19 | We have seen that perhaps the growing and adolescent dinosaur had a metabolism that actually converted from some form of endothermy to homeothermic or heterothermic metabolism . |
| 20 | Lightly dry washed hair using a diffuser attachment , then work a mousse through your roots to give height . |
| 21 | As we might speak of the culture of the Hebrides , or as W. H. Rivers wrote of the culture of Melanesia , so we speak of the culture of the European West to describe a set of outlooks , aims and ways of life , which has a history in the past of Europe and has spread to other parts of the world . |
| 22 | … and my right-hand Moderatus controls a power-fist for close quarter work , for scooping and crushing those miniscule Marines whose explosive bolts will be like stings … |
| 23 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 24 | Joining the DowElanco team represents an unparalleled opportunity to develop a career with a major global agrochemical business . |
| 25 | AS POST-DINOSAUR Jr popthrash becomes increasingly stuck in a rut of adolescent whining and indolence , it comes as a refreshing change to find a band who actually appear angry rather than mildly upset with their lot . |
| 26 | Waiting for programs to run , reports to print or in-house technical support to solve a problem accounted for $19 billion in lost productivity ; checking printed output a further $17 billion ; and helping others get to grips with applications another $16 billion . |
| 27 | This political framework filled a continent whose physical characteristics were a long and indented coast , few very high mountains , moderate rainfall and temperature and much fertile land . |
| 28 | He wants to restore it to its original castellated glory to provide a home for wife Annie and two sons and realise a 15-year dream . |
| 29 | A hierarchical technique generates a tree whose leaves are labelled with individual instances . |
| 30 | In the example shown the least stable parameter has a release specification of ±5 per cent of the nominal value and a check specification of ±10 per cent of the nominal value . |