Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 2 | Others awaiting trial by the same court for corruption during Pasok 's eight-year term of office ( 1981-89 ) included the former Prime Minister , Andreas Papandreou , who stated after the verdict that not Athanasopoulos and his actions but " a collective political decision by a government " had been on trial . |
| 3 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 4 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 5 | Wearing an open-necked shirt in a shade of blue which intensified the colour of his eyes and complemented the width of his shoulders and silver-grey trousers that moulded slim hips before encasing long , muscled legs , Rune Christensen looked like some godly visitor from Asgard — and one bent on vengeance . |
| 6 | Others , like Weiskrantz ( 1968 ) and Dean ( 1980 ; 1982 ) , are much more sanguine and argue the brain is generally not interactive so that knowledge of what is lost after a lesion can be used to frame conclusions about the normal function of a region . |
| 7 | He had promised her that if anything out of the ordinary happened , any unnecessary flicker on a dial , he would wake her . |
| 8 | They seem likely to continue to do so even after the reserve policy has been replaced by an interim policy of providing maintained protection for a list of specific products with the potential to compete with foreign products . |
| 9 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 10 | As with the basic advice for the textual part of a newsletter the message is keep it simple . |
| 11 | But I thought the main concern would be finding the right building for a museum of this type , and that there would be no need to buy any pictures for it . |
| 12 | A number of political scientists have suggested that societies possess a political ‘ elite ’ , that decision makers are drawn from a narrow spectrum within a society . |
| 13 | Tall building with a bell in you ? |
| 14 | Perhaps changing levels of transport provision can be regarded as part and parcel of rural change as a whole , as discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 15 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 16 | The council hopes the publicity will help its application for European funding for a project on the river . |
| 17 | Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing . |
| 18 | On the one hand , individuals usually on a short-term contract with a job to do face on the other hand a bureaucracy with mixed feelings about the importance of environmental deterioration . |
| 19 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 20 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 21 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 22 | The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range . |
| 23 | Given that it is unobtrusive though , and it is possible to obtain a very concise response to a query , rather than having to read through quite a lot of text before finding the required information , it will at the very least save some time . |
| 24 | Perhaps the odd purchase of a revolver or two , but that 's all . ’ |
| 25 | There are some other restrictions affecting the choice of courses : the normal curriculum for a student registered for the M.Sc. |
| 26 | CANS of a fish product , manufactured by a Scottish company , have been withdrawn from sale throughout Britain as a precautionary measure because of a possible link with a case of suspected botulism in which a woman was paralysed from the neck down . |
| 27 | There is also a possible link with a robbery a month ago at Saughall Motors . |
| 28 | Are there staff identified with specific responsibility for a student welfare service ? |
| 29 | Under the eyes of a serious , tall Palestinian with a pistol in his holster , they were singing , over and over again : ‘ Fatah , we are your children and , when we are older , we will be your soldiers . ’ |
| 30 | The contribution was recognised later by a substantial monetary award from a War Inventions Board of scientists and by an OBE from the Government ’ . |