Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For centuries a Royal Mile eating and drinking house has stood on this site . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whenever possible buy the yarn by length rather than weight as different fibres and treatments can vary the weight of yarns a great deal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The following song was broadcast on the radio and was on sale in the record shops , yet the wearing of miniskirts a few years later was denounced as improper and an example of western sexual decadence and permissiveness ! |
| 11 | The dropping of the detailed prescription of hours a few years later did not disturb history 's dominant position among the core subjects of the liberal , grammar tradition . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Your issue on the use of images a few months ago was excellent so why not stick to your own guidelines ? |
| 15 | Can you see the kinds of books a particular publisher tends to market ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In a number of countries a distinct shift took place during the course of the boom . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published . |
| 23 | As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On Nov. 10 President Bush outlined to the National Association of Realtors a new $4,200 million housing initiative . |
| 26 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |