Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , confidence can be useful for certain types of secrets for which other rights are inappropriate such as the recipe for Coca-Cola or a secret research technique or industrial process . |
| 2 | Or does it re-create a folk tale such as the Fokine-Stravinsky The Firebird or a national epic such as Bintley 's The Swan of Tuoneia ? |
| 3 | ‘ You know how the mental hospitals send people 's lunatics home to them now — even the ones who think they 're Napoleon or a poached egg . |
| 4 | Depending on who you talk to , she 's either Hollywood 's answer to Joan of Arc or a direct descendant of Lucretia Borgia . |
| 5 | It means that this type of analysis lights upon a particular aspect of social life and social change ( and an aspect of life with which Chicagoans were immediately concerned in the 1920s ) without attending to what Castells or a structuralist Marxist would see as the principal underlying processes affecting people 's lives , especially economic processes and those related to the social relations of production . |
| 6 | Instead of going into either SERPS or a contracted-out company pension scheme , they will be paid directly into your personal pension plan . |
| 7 | The programmes for the MTh ( Master of Theology ) and related Diploma and for the MSc ( Master of Science ) comprise taught courses , assessed normally by essays rather than by formal examinations , followed by the preparation of a short dissertation of some 15,000 words for MTh/MSc or a major essay of not more than 10,000 words for the Diploma . |
| 8 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 9 | Phyllis Bowman , national director of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , told its annual conference at Keele that a dual attack on abortion and embryo experimentation will be launched in the autumn when the Government announces its Bill on embryo research . |
| 10 | Both Vietnamese and Chinese diplomats confirmed in mid-September that a secret summit meeting had taken place on Sept. 3-4 . |
| 11 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 12 | For the Downland , sheep remained dominant ; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given . |
| 13 | The districts ' association will tell Mr Lang that a single council would be too big and remote . |
| 14 | This study , carried out in an Italian series of patients accurately selected for the absence of other known aetiologic factors , and the presence of well established serum markers of autoimmunity , confirms previous observations made with a first generation ELISA that a wide overlap between the two above conditions does occur . |
| 15 | What will the Germans think when they arrive in Glasgow with players still fresh from a ten-week break in the Bundesliga and a legislative system which means that if any of their players has called off from this game they must not play for their club sides next weekend ? ’ |
| 16 | The prize for winning ‘ New Faces ’ was a trip to Las Vegas and a three-week cabaret stint at the M.G.M. Grand , where I died four times nightly during each 45-minute spot . |
| 17 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |
| 18 | A Hong Kong legislator interned with him , Mr H.K. Cheng , was able to help Mr Walker and a Canadian internee , Mr David Michell , to pinpoint the site , in the grounds of what is now Weifang Middle School . |
| 19 | Thus , while Corporal Weatherall and a growing force of commandos were on interminable training exercises , or standing by for operations that were cancelled before they got afloat , very few slipped the mesh of authority . |
| 20 | The only sour note for Arsenal were cautions for Lee Dixon , John Jensen , Parlour and Tony Adams and a facial injury to Limpar . |
| 21 | Lisson 's collaboration between Michael Joaquin Grey and Randolph Huff , with sculpture by Tony Cragg 's pupil , Wilhelm Mundt ( to 10 October ) , will be followed by new works by John Latham and a new installation by Christian Boltanski ( 20 October-21 November ) , a photographic record of the pupils of the gallery 's local school , North Westminster Community School , which he compiled on a visit to London last month . |
| 22 | Prasong Sonsiri , was a member of Palang Dharma and a former secretary-general of the National Security Council . |
| 23 | Besides that , Soviet troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan and a whole range of nuclear missiles had been destroyed . |
| 24 | The majority of the rebels were of the Tutsi ethnic group , who had ruled Rwanda until a bloody revolt by the majority Hutu in 1959 forced thousands to take refuge in neighbouring states . |
| 25 | The survey of annual changes in breeding populations for 19 species associated with rivers and canals found significant increases in numbers of the Mute Swan , Moorhen , Pied Wagtail and Whitethroat and a significant decline in only one species , the Common Sandpiper . |
| 26 | Deanes looked towards Meredith and a surprised expression crossed his face . |
| 27 | However , Jeff Rooker , MP for Birmingham Perry Barr and a prominent advocate of PR , said the House of Commons would continue to be ‘ largely , middle class , white , and male dominated ’ without a new system . |
| 28 | With a population of 40,752 ( 1971 census ) and 541 retail outlets , the average annual spend per inhabitant in 1972 was £462 as compared with £367 in Wilmslow and a regional average of £274 ( Census of Distribution 1971 ) . |
| 29 | It included Gale , evergreen Veratrum with flowering buds , dark green and striped-leaved Pyrola and a pretty Lycopodium . |
| 30 | The desk sergeant contacted Superintendent Misty Hayes and a missing person enquiry commenced . |