Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the firm establishment of the Social Democratic and SR parties early in the new century , membership in one or other of them offers an alternative guide . |
| 2 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |
| 3 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 4 | In the first show she builds an inner-city farm for kids in Sheffield in just 77 hours . |
| 5 | She represents an obnoxious type of High Church Christian , often typified by adherents to the Oxford Movement , self-consciously ‘ medieval ’ in her choice of early English saint 's names for her sons . |
| 6 | But she wants an immediate cut in interest rates to help others . |
| 7 | But she wants an immediate cut in interest rates to help others . |
| 8 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 9 | She has an extra charisma , or whatever you like to call it . |
| 10 | Although Boyd is working hard to get as many projects as possible into print and to , ‘ try to get recognised and get lots of people to buy the books ’ , she has an ultimate ambition . |
| 11 | Although Boyd is working hard to get as many projects as possible into print and to , ‘ try to get recognised and get lots of people to buy the books ’ , she has an ultimate ambition . |
| 12 | She has an extensive range of designer fabrics including Henry Newbury , Gainsborough & Percheron . |
| 13 | She has an outstanding fuel debt of council estate packed with redundant car workers and her husband is himself one of them . |
| 14 | Can I ask , I know we 've got Amanda Root here , who 's going to help us in the Health Action Area Report , I also know that she has an ailing child , can we then take the item eleven , health action areas now on page fifty-eight , so that we can let Amanda go back to her commitments . |
| 15 | Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency . |
| 16 | She has an Iranian husband who is doing time , and two children in juvenile custody . |
| 17 | She has an extraordinary gift , as she is telekinetic and so has the power to make things happen through thought-transmission . |
| 18 | And at almost six foot tall , with a mane of thick hair and a fascinating face which can be transformed from seriously plain to startlingly attractive — witnessed by her TV debut success in The Life And Love Of A She-Devil — she has an extra-large helping of outspoken opinions to match . |
| 19 | If food is short and she is desperate to feed her family she has an obvious motive for taking available and easy prey . |
| 20 | She has an older sister , now aged 18 , and a younger brother , now aged 13 . |
| 21 | Unlike some singers , she has an inbuilt discipline . |
| 22 | She has an infinite capacity for humility and sacrifice and an abundant store of patience . |
| 23 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 24 | She seems to think the doctors believe she is a bad mother because she has an anorexic daughter . |
| 25 | She has an indomitable will . |
| 26 | She has an excellent place in a girls ’ boarding-school in Worcestershire . ’ |
| 27 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 28 | She has an important test next year , and she needs to pay attention . |
| 29 | ‘ She has an important job , ’ he said . |
| 30 | So ambitious it hurts , but she has an intense need for recognition . |