Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 2 | This was for centuries a strong point and later a prison ; among its prisoners , during the time of the Revolutionary Wars , was Lord Elgin , he of the marbles , who was held hostage in Lourdes on his way back to England from Turkey . |
| 3 | For centuries a Royal Mile eating and drinking house has stood on this site . |
| 4 | These combinations , as they are called , involve simple one-step punching and blocking techniques , but even of beginners a greater variety of kicks is expected , nor surprisingly in view of the emphasis that taekwondo places upon them . |
| 5 | Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal . |
| 6 | Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than by weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal . |
| 7 | Such neutrons need not themselves be particularly energetic , but in a matter of minutes a free neutron will decay into an energetic proton and electron , though not so energetic as to readily escape from the magnetosphere . |
| 8 | That night I walked part of my way home with one of the other pupils , who lived in a group of houses a short distance from the school . |
| 9 | A small button underneath the mouse can be pressed to reveal which channel it is set to by counting the number of times a neighbouring LED blinks . |
| 10 | ‘ Humility and humour ’ were essential requirements , and Stirling declared that ‘ the S.A.S. brooks no sense of class … the idea of a crack regiment is one officered by aristocracy … in the S.A.S. we share with the Brigade of Guards a deep respect for quality , but we have an entirely different outlook . |
| 11 | Can you see the kinds of books a particular publisher tends to market ? |
| 12 | Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background . |
| 13 | I thought the tide must have turned , so I was probably proceeding in a series of zigzags a little way upstream , and it was no use looking ahead for Joanna , for she 'd be lying off our quarter . |
| 14 | In a number of countries a distinct shift took place during the course of the boom . |
| 15 | For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance . |
| 16 | Thus , when in G. Cantor 's ( 1955 ) experiment the subjects had to learn over a series of trials a simultaneous discrimination between faces of the sort shown in fig. 5.2 , the task required them to carry over information from one trial to the next . |
| 17 | As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published . |
| 18 | As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published . |
| 19 | If companies had to say how many died and were injured in their service each year , it might give the life and death of workers a higher priority . |
| 20 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 21 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 22 | ‘ As far as the position of Top 40 radio in America and radio in Europe , I do n't think they give a lot of bands a fair shake . |
| 23 | First , we may call the abstract unit of form which is realised in actual sentences as the appropriate member of a set of word forms differing only in respect of inflections a lexical form ; and we can extend the notion of lexical form to cover an abstraction from the variously inflected manifestations of an idiom or dead metaphor . |
| 24 | The general form of the argument is always that ‘ real ’ elites find the political formulas and consecrated myths of decentralization or a fragmentation of powers a convenient cover for their monopoly control of the key decisions of state . |
| 25 | This will give the faculties and Directors of Studies a better opportunity to assess each individual applicant 's situation and offer appropriate support and advice . |
| 26 | However , in the majority of studies a high prevalence rate of hypercholesterolaemia has been found ( New et al , 1963 ; Wilson et al , 1970b ; Chase & Glasgow , 1976 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ; Sosenko et al , 1980 ; Yano et al , 1982 ; Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | But the wheel base continued to increase and , to negotiate curves , it was necessary to allow the centre pair of wheels a certain amount of side play . |
| 28 | A fondue set , a set of glasses a cuddly toy . |
| 29 | In contrast with the opposition 's plans for a 15 per cent " consumption tax " , there would also be personal tax cuts , giving three-quarters of taxpayers a top tax rate of 30 per cent , totalling A$3,400 million in 1994-95 and A$5,200 million in 1995-96 . |
| 30 | The project , which aims to cover three-quarters of the service work by the end of the century , is intended to give chief executives of agencies a higher degree of autonomy from central control . |