Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have only their failed policies and an enterprise zone in Inverclyde . |
| 2 | These included a multiparty system , the resignation of the provincial LC leadership , equal rights for Kosovar Albanians , the release of political prisoners and an end to political trials , and the lifting of the state of emergency in the province ( imposed during the last serious disturbances in Kosovo in February-March 1989 — see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ) . |
| 3 | Further afield are the Malvern and Clee Hills , Wenlock Edge with numerous paths and trails and the Wrekin , a famous local landmark with panoramic views and an Iron Age Fort . |
| 4 | The Wordsworthian attitude of reverence for mountains had not yet appeared , and Wordsworth 's two early poems , Descriptive Sketches and An Evening Walk , mainly purvey established eighteenth-century taste . |
| 5 | Public opinion polls reveal a powerful popular distaste for divided political parties and an aversion to coalitions , both of which are assumed to detract from effective government . |
| 6 | As with the accountant the person performing the function of the surveyor should be professionally qualified and the following proviso should be added : Provided that the person who purports to act as the Surveyor must be an Associate or Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or an Associate or Fellow of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers |
| 7 | Within this dynamic , we can affect and create cultural forms and an agenda which bring the non-disabled world to us , not we to it . |
| 8 | The contingency approach does , however , draw our attention to the fact that different structures may be necessary for the different activities that an organisation performs and takes account of the differing environment within which organisations operate . |
| 9 | And eight different hats and an alpenstock and a flywhisk and four walking-sticks . ’ |
| 10 | All it contained were four white English banknotes and an envelope . |
| 11 | For I was shrieking with laughter at some of the unintentional one-liners and an alien about as terrifying as E.T . |
| 12 | Armed with a book on Scottish castles and an Ordnance Survey map , they drove from Dumfries to Caithness in search of a wreck to salvage , until Stewart remembered the castle he had first seen as an architectural student . |
| 13 | The central communications office of HMS Omega was large and surprisingly light , with white-painted bulkheads and an excess of highly polished copper and brass . |
| 14 | The Richmond Fellowship , for example , provides hostels , run as small communities , which offer a secure environment and an opportunity to regain confidence in social relationships and an enthusiasm for living to a limited number of mentally disturbed adults and young people . |
| 15 | It is a ledger , the size and solidity of an old-fashioned accounts book , with broken corners and an air of belonging to that grey period which is too far gone to be new but not yet far enough off to be old . |
| 16 | The intensification of attacks on the character of Clinton included fresh revelations that an uncle of his might have attempted to use his influence to prevent him from being drafted for service in Vietnam . |
| 17 | The first issue comes out on November 24 and includes articles on women-only mini-cab firms and an interview with Labour 's deputy leader Margaret Beckett . |
| 18 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 19 | In Germany notably , where the government was a good deal less influenced by domestic opinion than in France and Britain , there was marked official sensitivity to the comments of foreign newspapers and an anxiety to present the best possible face to the outside world . |
| 20 | The nature of the uprising changed during 1989 with more killings by Palestinians of suspected collaborators and an increase in attacks on Jewish civilians , which in turn provoked further arrests of suspected activists and their detention without trial under new detention procedures . |
| 21 | Free from the limitations and disciplines of catering college , Steve gets his techniques from books , reinforced with an understanding of the raw materials and an eagerness to experiment . |
| 22 | This was coupled with a move towards the manufacture of increasingly complex parts , requiring geometrically more demanding cuts and an increase in the number of cuts of different types to be performed on any one piece . |
| 23 | Pennethorne produced detailed drawings and an estimate , but Hall ‘ took great objections to them ’ as he thought that many rooms and passages were badly lit . |
| 24 | Trade union leaders may well enter into " social contracts " with governments and pledge themselves and their members to wage restraint and productivity improvements in return for social benefits and an extension of trade union powers , but their control over their own members is limited and unofficial strikes can , and have , destroyed deals worked out at the top . |
| 25 | Between 1692 and 1747 the British had defeated the French at sea a number of times , but these battles could not eliminate the possibility that the French fleet would come out of port at a time of its own choosing and assist attacks on British colonies or an invasion of the British Isles . |
| 26 | Revisiting it for the first time , he recalls his high hopes when an angel with marketing skills appeared . |
| 27 | The most moving moment came during a trip to Universal Studios when an orang-utan leapt off a stage to hug him . |
| 28 | Most importantly , they point to different careers and an interest in different rewards . |
| 29 | Prue told George that Dawn Allenby was in high spirits because an admirer had sent her flowers . |
| 30 | And the place was more like a botanical gardens than an office . ’ |