Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 So it should be a good laugh like a good old er , jolly jaunt !
2 He may need to do a bit of work on the accent , but McIntosh is beginning to sound like a natural Scottish no.8 .
3 Horsham were unable to find a way past the Town defence however much they tried and really looked out of their depth against a slick professional erm Town side .
4 For instance , the keyboard player may be using £5,000 worth of state-of-the-art technology while the bass guitarist is playing through a tired old AC30 .
5 The catalytic PLA2 activity was not invariably removed from serum , however , by immunoabsorption with a specific antipancreatic PLA2 antibody .
6 I really , strongly do not want to be ruled by such people — people with America 's political correctness , but without the American love of liberty ; people with the Continent 's dirigisme , but without a Continental breadth of culture ; people with a modern metropolitan 's contempt for his own country 's traditions , but a bumpkin 's ignorance of economics .
7 FISH PIE ( see recipe , page 157 ) served with unlimited vegetables , plus 4oz ( 100g ) peaches or any canned fruit ( tinned in natural juice ) , and a diet yogurt OR STUFFED MARROW ( see recipe , page 162 ) served with unlimited vegetables , plus 8oz ( 200g ) stewed fruit ( no sugar ) topped with a low fat fromage frais
8 I was very close to a a hospital with a wonderful cardiac er unit er where they had a professor who was one of the leading Italian in the subject .
9 Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) .
10 The Ulsterman ( right ) , severely injured during practice for the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix , lapped within 1.6 secs of the fastest lap set by a F3000 car in a recent British F2 meeting , but continuing problems with his left knee prevent Donnelly from thinking seriously about an F1 return .
11 But what it is it 's come in a great big pack package thing these two speakers .
12 Coupling the ICP mass spectrometer to a new high-power Nd:YAG laser microprobe offers the exciting prospect of obtaining much greater information on the composition of fluid inclusions .
13 Just as linguistics is not primarily concerned with individual utterances ( parole ) but with the language system as a whole ( langue ) , the structuralist proposal is that individual works should be regarded as instances of parole informed by rules which belong to a general literary langue .
14 The new HACMP/6000 software enables users to choose from three levels or modes of high availability support : in mode 1 , it provides fallover to a back-up idle RS/6000 for quick restart of an application or subsystem if there is a failure with the primary processor .
15 Fines could at least be raised to a level comparable pro rata to a parking fine !
16 CHICKEN OR PRAWN CHOP SUEY ( see recipe , page 155 ) served with 1 oz ( 25g ) [ dry weight ] boiled brown rice and soy sauce ) plus 1 diet yogurt OR VEGETARIAN CHOP SUEY ( Cook as above recipe , see page 155 ) excluding prawns or chicken and serve with unlimited boiled brown rice and soy sauce , plus a low fat fromage frais or diet yogurt
17 It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries .
18 As for how many personal computers could be supported by a local network-connected PS/2 , the company admits that it simply wo n't know until the code is finished , but the implication is that it will be many more than 40 , and that the local network might run out of capacity before the server will .
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