Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McKinlay won the British Girls ' Championship as a 16 year-old in 1989 , and Moodie , 17 , claimed the British Under-18 , Scottish Under-21 and the Wilson PGA Junior Stroke Play titles in a glorious August last year . |
| 2 | Area Child Protection Committees ( ACPCs ) , based upon the boundaries of local authorities , are intended to provide a forum for developing , monitoring and reviewing child protection policies in a particular locality . |
| 3 | An insider at Zenith noted that the company ‘ is really a sitting duck target , with highly visible personal computer products in a relentless price war , which is also an acquired division with a different brand name that is not French . ’ |
| 4 | Thus the Bengali perceptions of the west in the 19th century — studied from the view-point of contact between dissimilar cultures and the attitudes characteristic of elite groups in a colonial society — has a relevance to the analysis of much wider issues . |
| 5 | Guanine imino protons appear further upfield from their usual position in Watson-Crick G.C base pairs in a chemical shift region ( 10.5–12p.p.m. ) similar to that observed for G imino protons hydrogen-bonded to carbonyl groups , but also for those that are not hydrogen-bonded . |
| 6 | A LEICESTERSHIRE village is riven by controversy in a dispute over ‘ progressive ’ versus traditional teaching methods in a local primary school . |
| 7 | Six gritty months of fumbling with biros and over-read text books in A level tedium were wiped nut . |
| 8 | While Zulfikar Ghose 's textual playfulness can be vexatious , even baffling , it insists on the partial , unreliable nature of memory itself , or , as Urim puts it , ‘ the enormous accumulation of fragments , lik images in a shattered mirror , which constituted my life ’ . |
| 9 | Some schools saw the development of study skills in a similar fashion , perceiving skills as a prerequisite for satisfactory engagement with subject content or learning experiences . |
| 10 | I was struck by the words of Graham Bishop of Salomon Brothers in a recent publication on the importance of the no-bail-out rule . |
| 11 | The Welsh Office has been accused of complacency over food poisoning outbreaks in a damning new report by an all-Party Commons committee . |
| 12 | The ex-communist ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) inflicted a humiliating defeat on the opposition parties in a general election held on June 28 . |
| 13 | Is a ‘ sparing amount ’ given to a community of thirty small tropical fish also adequate for a dozen hungry Rift Cichlids in a larger aquarium ? |
| 14 | Slung across his back were two fishing rods in a long brown sheath and strapped to a bracket behind his seat was the basket from the picnic . |
| 15 | The depth of treatment varies enormously with some chapters reading like research articles in a primary journal , and others offering a gentle but thorough introduction to an interested outsider . |
| 16 | The only salt in this survey that uses a two part formula with some trace elements in a separate bottle . |
| 17 | In the first , she used specialised bibliographies or review articles in a specific subject area . |
| 18 | In the first , she used specialised bibliographies or review articles in a specific subject area . |
| 19 | Officers worked with the yachting , boating and fishing communities in a constant trawl for information . |
| 20 | Each carbon atom is covalently bonded to four other carbon atoms in a tetrahedral arrangement . |
| 21 | While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction . |
| 22 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 23 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : If more than one bid is forthcoming from different management or employee teams in a given company , we shall , of course , consider those bids . |
| 24 | The accounts team would also like to play other head office football teams in a possible five-a-side or 11-a-side tournament this summer . |
| 25 | This is because coalition partners in a fragmented system demand public spending for pet schemes as the price for their support . |
| 26 | Residue Cys 177 of DNA cytosine-C 5 methyltransferase forms a covalent crosslink with DNA 5-fluorocytosine residues in a sequence-specific and mechanism-based reaction . |
| 27 | Opposition spokesman Richard Andriamanjato told Radio France International on July 29 that conditions for talks with the government included the release of opposition leaders arrested in the days before Ratsiraka 's statement and agreement on the participation of opposition members in a new government . |
| 28 | All the research groups are independent of one another , giving an unusual spread of research interests in a single laboratory . |
| 29 | André , accused of pushing her , was acquitted on murder charges in a controversial trial . |
| 30 | This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period . |