Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cities are the inverse , containing individual blocks , streets but few voids , lungs : an excessive impression of solid mass and a zero expression of space . |
| 2 | Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem : |
| 3 | So Intelsat 6 is stuck in a uselessly low orbit until a space shuttle can be persuaded to collect it , or until it falls down . |
| 4 | The power station is also a matter of miles from the Lilstock bombing range in the Bristol Channel , where aircraft can be watched from the coast as they wheel and circle in the sky before a fiery flash and a splash of water shows that they have hit their ‘ target ’ . |
| 5 | For example , it has been held that an arrangement void for contravention of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 constitutes unlawful means but this is hard to reconcile with the clear decision in the Mogul case that an agreement in restraint of trade at common law did not . |
| 6 | Scheme organiser Dawn Whitton said : ‘ Entries can include written reports or publications , tidying up campaigns , landscaping projects , studies of a species of wildlife , repairs to an historic building or a scheme to enhance a new development . |
| 7 | They were excused few , if any , tasks , Hannah may appear to be a frail pensioner but a lifetime 's exposure to the hard labour of rural life enables her to endure the most extreme elements far better than urban-reared people half her age . |
| 8 | The granules of spinea have broad base and a trifid or slightly rugose crown , those of hamula have a narrower base and the crown is more rugose . |
| 9 | Clothes can be costumes , and for some young women , walking down the street with bleached hair or a biker 's leather jacket says more about them than a thousand words . |
| 10 | Since it gives only a single output there will be no distinction between the zero in its output due to an edge being properly located in its receptive field and a zero due to the absence of an edge altogether . |
| 11 | Until he inherited in 1617 , Lowther 's professional income and a jointure estate of £72 per annum supported him . |
| 12 | A spring of guarded hope and a source of amusement . |
| 13 | So there is an administrative advantage and an advantage in terms of comprehensibility in having a single system . |
| 14 | Staff can produce an individual handbook covering specific aspects of care , for example pre-operative preparation or a doctor 's preferences for treatment . |
| 15 | Barron and Baron ( 1977 ) had children of a variety of ages compare a word with a picture to make either a rhyming decision or a meaning decision . |
| 16 | I have to search for a two-way adaptor and a tape to try it out . |
| 17 | Fundamentalism at its simplest is the reduction of a faith , a political creed or a way of life to an extreme and recognizable core which dominates that faith . |
| 18 | Respectively they include device-independent device control protocols to enable heterogeneous video cassette recorders , laser disks and Compact Disk players to be integrated , a Japanese text-to-speech synthesiser necessary to phone-based data retrieval and TruVoice , a text-to-speech converter and an application programming interface that transforms any text passage into spoken English or Spanish . |
| 19 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 20 | You could just drift and hang out and see what happened , which suited me fine , even more than being a Customs Officer or a professional footballer or a guitarist . |
| 21 | These included convening its general meetings since April 1990 , organising lectures on popular art theory and on the North Korean Juche ideology , organising meetings where slides of North Korean art were shown , and painting both a banner advocating Korean reunification and a mural about Im Su-Kyong , a student detained for illegally visiting North Korea in 1989 . |
| 22 | IF we are to believe the current crop of Diana rumours , our once shy Di has a temper worthy of a fuming fishwife and a line in colourful verbal abuse to match . |
| 23 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 24 | In policy he was a critic of dear money and an advocate of public works . |
| 25 | There were a few more garbled words , part of an argument , then a loud noise and a scream . |
| 26 | This is because , with a literary text , what is caused is often inside your head : an emotional response or an impression of meaning . |
| 27 | A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict . |
| 28 | It was an odd coincidence that a man should be found dead in the Thames near Stavanger 's office on the day that Stavanger had apparently disappeared , but that was now over four months ago , and in any case the police knew all about it , because the office cleaner had called the police . |
| 29 | The group may provide guidelines for behaviour such as a professional ethic or a code of conduct . |
| 30 | Voice croaking and heron-like , a loud quacking clatter and a staccato k'yow , k'yow' S Iraq only . |