Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the normal way a fraternity held an annual social function , after its festival mass , to collect the stock which was forthwith paid over to the churchwardens , less any sum retained for guild purposes . |
| 2 | In the normal way a ferret meeting a strange dog would become hostile , would hiss and spit . |
| 3 | It held that it was open to any aggrieved party to challenge before the European Court a decision by the Commission ordering production of documents which a party considers are privileged , and the Court has power to grant interim measures to prevent disclosure of those documents to the Commission until the dispute on privilege is resolved . |
| 4 | France would give the European Council a secretariat . |
| 5 | Some seven days before the due date a decision was taken by the National Transport Workers ' Federation not to take part . |
| 6 | At the low end a 17-inch monochrome ( 1152 x 900 ) goes for $2,600 , a 17-inch grey scale ( 1152 x 900 ) for $3,100 , a 14-inch colour ( 1024 x 768 ) for $3,100 and a 17-inch high-resolution colour ( 1280 x 1024 ) for $5,000 . |
| 7 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 8 | I decided to give the combined mode a try since I was using a fairly fast 386DX — it was still painfully slow so I reverted to separate modes . |
| 9 | Held in Villa Grimaldi building , once a torture centre where many Chilean disappeared prisoners were detained under Gen. Augusto Pinochet " s 1973-90 military regime , the meeting ended on Nov. 11 with the decision to create a " network for life " throughout Latin America , aimed at the rapid denunciation of cases of disappearance whenever they occurred , and at the achievement of international legislation declaring the repressive practice a crime against humanity . |
| 10 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 11 | Who cares about the possible queue a week next putative Saturday at the Gatwick guichet ? |
| 12 | However the Velcro entrance to this compartment is only 3in long which can make stuffing back the bivvy bag a bit of an effort . |
| 13 | American diplomats were so appalled by Mr Zappala 's nomination that they leaked to the Spanish press a copy of the misnamed competence certificate , which is sent to the Senate , which has the final say on ambassadorial posts . |
| 14 | The proven fact of German and Italian intervention made the Spanish Republic a symbol of resistance to fascism . |
| 15 | Erm yeah , well I suppose I mean , they are quite familiar with the Spanish City a lot of them are n't they ? |
| 16 | Inside the single-storey building a leathery-faced , middle-aged white woman hacked with a kind of parang at branches of flame trees which had worked their way through the open windows . |
| 17 | At the end of the poem he will realise that the water was Death , his daughter in Heaven , the strange land a premonition of Paradise . |
| 18 | Example 2:13 Right to display advertisement permitted by regulations The right to display in and on the demised property any advertisement permitted to be displayed without the express consent of the local planning authority by virtue of the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 or any modification or replacement thereof Example 2:14 Right to display advertisement in prescribed form The right to display on the front door of the demised property a name plate not exceeding in area and advertising the business carried on in the demised property and to display the name or style of that business on the name board situated in the entrance hall of the building of which the demised property forms part with letters provided by the landlord |
| 19 | So at the right price a property will sell . |
| 20 | These practical worries add to the emotional turmoil a woman will already be undergoing . |
| 21 | ‘ Sunday meetings give the working man a chance to go racing . |
| 22 | I should be more encouraged if I could identify within the Labour party a consensus for the preservation of the Union . |
| 23 | Most Conservative opinion had long been opposed to the system whereby a trade union could contribute to the Labour Party a proportion of each member 's subscription , unless the member specially contracted out . |
| 24 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 25 | Last week , by coincidence , the Labour leader a man , it is widely believed went out of his way to be pictured with a particular group of parliamentary candidates . |
| 26 | Between the outer-arc ridge and the volcanic arc a forearc basin may be formed . |
| 27 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 28 | There is in the feminine psyche a primitive , wild quality , that needs to draw from the power of nature , using the senses of night , when the clear thought and vision of day sleep . |
| 29 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 30 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |