Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not an American-Palestinian version of the 1917 Balfour declaration , in which Britain promised the world 's Jews a national home in Palestine ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 6 | It was the goals from McStay , McAllister and McClair which gave the Scots a stirring win in Norrkoping , and the bite of McCall which gave them a formidable balance . |
| 7 | In dynamic mechanical methods a rapid change in modulus is indicative of the glass transition , but now the transition region is dependent on the frequency of the applied force . |
| 8 | Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations . |
| 9 | Some food producers mentioned an increasing unpredictability In consumer tastes , some engineering companies a growing volatility in demand for their products . |
| 10 | Each cradles a small gun in his fist . |
| 11 | Any cell exposed to this situation experiences a powerful rise in its energy level . |
| 12 | Learning by induction , the student experiences a mental process in which he observes many particular instances and then makes a general rule ( a generalisation ) incorporating the truth of the fact observed . |
| 13 | The company had refused to give miners a real increase in wages , a demand made by miners at three other CODELCO mines which were scheduled to hold strike ballots at the end of July and August . |
| 14 | The result was that the Government virtually had to climb down over its much heralded claim that it was offering the miners a significant increase in pay . |
| 15 | And with your support , we can help give even more of these youngsters a better start in life . |
| 16 | She resolved to tell the others , over lunch , about Luke Bouverie , whose brooding adolescent glamour gave his parents a certain status in the eyes of the parish 's girls . |
| 17 | Under such circumstances a substantial increase in aircraft maintenance workload prevails . |
| 18 | Over the past two decades a possible increase in the incidence of anal cancer has been noted , especially in American communities known for their high representation of homosexual men . |
| 19 | With these speed reductions a significant fall in traffic conflicts can be anticipated . |
| 20 | Richard Marpole highlights what you can see country-wide and outlines a fascinating walk in the Norfolk Broads |
| 21 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |
| 22 | There existed in those days a true camaraderie in our profession , whatever the small differences in our approach . |
| 23 | The last-minute outbidding by opportunist builders is costing ordinary buyers a small fortune in lost fees . |
| 24 | The pact would speed up the privatisation of 4,000 medium-sized and small state enterprises by giving workers a greater say in running them . |
| 25 | Our early thinking , at the moment , is that we should seek ways , but without major upheaval , to bring HNCs and HNDs under the ‘ general SVQ umbrella ’ because this would give those advanced awards a rightful place in the framework of Scottish Vocational Qualifications and at the same time simplify and clarify progression routes from introductory through to advanced qualifications and beyond . |
| 26 | Because numerous theoretical approaches to visual word-recognition postulate horizontal interconnections between detectors evidence suggesting that such interconnections do not exist serves a vital function in adjudicating between theories . |
| 27 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 28 | During the following 20 years a threefold increase in incidence occurred among men in Copenhagen and its suburbs ( p for trend=0.001 ) . |
| 29 | In fact , ‘ public notice ’ comprised for many years a small insertion in the classified advertisement section of two national daily papers and one local paper , jammed between husbands who were no longer responsible for their wives ' debts and the liquidation of bankrupt companies . |
| 30 | Almost alone among its peers , Britain will see over the next 20 years a small decline in its old-age dependency ratio ( the number of people aged over 65 as a proportion of the working population ) . |