Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building on the example of many Labour councils which have developed imaginative arts initiatives , we will make the arts a statutory responsibility for local authorities . |
| 2 | The cup triumph will go a long way to easing the memory of their loss to Waringstown in the final of the Touche Ross Senior Cup last month and caps a solid season for the Comber side . |
| 3 | The ultimate accolade caps a dramatic rise for Platt who was rejected by Manchester United before establishing himself in the game with Crewe , then joining Taylor at Aston Villa and then going onto Juventus via Bari . |
| 4 | Offering drinkers a wide range of regional beers : one of many Campaign beer festivals |
| 5 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 6 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 7 | Why not an American-Palestinian version of the 1917 Balfour declaration , in which Britain promised the world 's Jews a national home in Palestine ? |
| 8 | So why not give your legs a golden glow with a little fake tan ? |
| 9 | The two tier stand has been specially designed to give fans a clear view of the pitch . |
| 10 | But the chances are , too , that if at the beginning you saw yourself as writing a crime novel and no more , then you will have spoilt the novel you eventually turned out to have produced , as well as causing in a good many of your readers a subtle feeling of disappointment . |
| 11 | Without indulging in passages of inactive description , he extended to his readers a panoramic view of the world , making good use of the duties performed by the navy in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to keep up the colour and excitement of adventure . |
| 12 | His main theme was the increasing power of Rome in the Mediterranean and this , as Momigliano points out , Provided him with a new historical perspective : ‘ Just because Fortune made almost all the affairs of the world incline in one direction , it is the historian 's task to put before his readers a compendious view of the ways in which Fortune accomplished her purposes . ’ |
| 13 | I believe that continuing to hear the language of books as well as to see it gives developing readers a valuable resource in this domain . |
| 14 | Yet Rider Haggard seems to have been dissatisfied with his presentation of the character ( and naturally he must have been influenced , as a professional novelist , by the enormous popularity and sales of She ) and he did not resist the temptation to give his readers a further insight into her . |
| 15 | I had failed miserably to give my readers a true picture of the visual delights awaiting those who followed in my footsteps . |
| 16 | Whatever novelists may believe about the universe , they do not demand of their readers a formal belief in God or the Devil , or in the forces of history , and the tolerances they expect are wide . |
| 17 | The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief . |
| 18 | War-time restriction on milk-chocolate seemed to have given confectionery manufacturers a fanatical devotion to the stuff . |
| 19 | Most items produced in Europe paid practically no English duty if they were to be re-exported to the colonies , but a few , including iron and steel , were taxed at a rate which made continental products very expensive and thus gave English manufacturers a clear field in the colonial market . |
| 20 | In large organizations a personal visit to meetings not directly under your control may be impractical . |
| 21 | The ‘ Suspender ’ gives floaters a new lease of life . |
| 22 | Under Ordinance 12 of 1840 forest land was declared the property of the Crown , and in some districts a large proportion of it was sold for plantation development . |
| 23 | In these industrial districts a high proportion of families earned a substantial part of their living from metal crafts or mining or the manufacture of cloth . |
| 24 | One of the most important rules of interviewing is to give candidates a clear understanding of what the job entails . |
| 25 | They were speedily , if only temporarily , relieved of their worries when a head appeared amidst the gently rolling waves a short distance from the beach , which soon resolved into the — quite pleasing — shape of a woman struggling exhaustedly out of the sea and up the beach beside the jetty . |
| 26 | Jane found animals a great prop to sanity . |
| 27 | The elongated nose , however , gave these animals a considerable advantage over their competitors . |
| 28 | Give your eyes a rosy touch with a rose-tinted eyeshadow on the browbone , to meet a subtle grey-brown in the socket . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |