Example sentences of "of [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police in the Co Armagh area have been on a state of alert since a massive IRA bomb devastated the centre of nearby Lurgan in March last year . |
| 2 | It was founded five years ago as a small voluntary organisation and now has grown to a membership of 275 and a permanent secretariat with full time staff . |
| 3 | What better symbol of that than a new , improved BR . |
| 4 | Under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 and a Poor Law Amendment Act of the following year , Poor Law Guardians were able to create separate infirmaries — pauper hospitals . |
| 5 | The sensitivity of the perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody immunofluorescence test for the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis was 0.75 with a specificity of 0.88 and a positive predictive value of 0.88 ( all sera ) . |
| 6 | His father , Peter , was a stylish midfield back in Gala 's Border Championship side of 1966–67 and a brilliant sevens exponent , while Rob Moffat toured with Scotland in the Far East in 1977 and coached Townsend at Galashiels Academy and Scottish Schools . |
| 7 | Calculate the net effect on national income of an increase in C of 12 and a simultaneous increase in T of 20 . |
| 8 | It was ironic in view of this that a hotly-disputed goal was to cost Arsenal the Cup in the 1932 final . |
| 9 | The violence of this and a similar incident was greater than " anything I have seen in my life short of war " . |
| 10 | And the ladies all when they were dressed they would have a skirt made of this and a frilly blouse with a high neck and er a silver buckled belt round their waist . |
| 11 | All of this and a whole lot more , is yours when you open a Current Account with Midland . |
| 12 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 13 | ‘ Would you show me a little bit of this and a little bit of that ? |
| 14 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 15 | The purpose of such investigation will be to determine the precise nature of the incident , to examine the factors contributing to its occurrence and to identify any measures which might be taken to minimise the likelihood of a repetition of this or a similar incident . |
| 16 | Introducing the variable , it is seen that when this second contribution is but when it is To summarise , the foregoing analysis has established that the complete Fourier spectrum of a unit step function comprises a delta function centred on zero frequency that provides the mean direct level of one-half and a continuous spectrum of sinewaves with amplitude that provides the unit step about the mean . |
| 17 | The raw scores were then standardised to a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 . |
| 18 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 19 | For details of these and a wide range of heating appliances , contact : Or visit the showroom and see the fires in action . |
| 20 | The ability to discriminate between types of potential information source , for instance between consulting an encyclopedia and a dictionary , or either of these and a full-length monograph , as well as recognizing what types of information may best be found in a visual source such as a photograph or chart . |
| 21 | A temporary replacement was hastily found , but it was not until the end of 1946 that a permanent appointment was made , that of Sgt. P. Merrey , recently retired from the Derbyshire Constabulary . |
| 22 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |
| 23 | I share the opinion of many that a similar figure would have been more appropriate than the controversial statue of Air Marshal Harris outside St Clement Danes . |
| 24 | Having read Schiller , Conrad and Bakunin by the age of 12 , he is now moved to join the Sendero Luminoso ( Shining Path ) terrorists , but finds his ideological ardour diverted when he meets Elena Silves , a bewitching girl of 17 and a devout Catholic . |
| 25 | A man of 25 and a 15-year-old boy have been remanded in custody , charged with murdering Sgt Forth . |
| 26 | Mike Gatting was very disappointing , with only 266 runs in eight Test innings at an average of 33.25 and a dreadful 7.66 in six one-day innings . |
| 27 | One or two events which will be of more than a passing interest to Lothian Highways ' staff have occurred since the first edition of NETWORK was published . |
| 28 | If Helen Dobson 's achievement in doing the double of British Match and Stroke-Play titles detracted from everything else , on performance worthy of more than a passing mention was a final day for Julie Hall which took in rounds of 69 and 71 . |
| 29 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
| 30 | Where there has been a lapse of more than a reasonable length of time from the time the contract was made . |