Example sentences of "the [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrington describes the prevailing a prevailing outlook as |
| 2 | Accompanying the retrospective a laudatory lecture series was mounted . |
| 3 | The complex nature of the autistic handicap and the individual behaviour of the autistic child has made the education of the autistic a difficult task . |
| 4 | but you 've got every right to pontificate on the on the hunting even though you do n't live there er , Mr I du n no , barbarism , is this , is this for the Labour a free vote . |
| 5 | I think we forget , in these days , that in the Thirties a young person left school at fourteen , and in many cases , went straight to a job . |
| 6 | A TRAINING scheme aimed at encouraging sport in the community has started at Wrexham 's Racecourse football ground with the goal of giving the unemployed a better chance of finding work . |
| 7 | Elsewhere prisoners have restored a range of vintage farm machinery … this is strictly for show … but the prison horse is kept busy carrying hay.Leyhill earns its keep by providing food for jails throughout the south west … these glasshouses produce eight tons of tomatoes a week.Plants for displays at other prisons are also propagated under glass , together with the half a million bedding plants for use at Leyhill and elsewhere . |
| 8 | ‘ Give the meek a good deal — join the Greens , ’ announced a poster on a publicity stand in the foyer of the conference hall . |
| 9 | But it is hoped that the heat generated by the US tax will not sour the special relationship by giving the British a bad name . |
| 10 | In the Carboniferous a great variety of forms with highly zig-zag suture lines are a distinctive group of ammonoids usually known as goniatites . |
| 11 | By the mid-1860s a middle-class holiday boom was already transforming parts of the British coastline with seafront promenades , piers and other embellishments , which enabled landed proprietors to draw unsuspected profits from hitherto uneconomic stretches of cliff and beach . |
| 12 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 13 | In the 1890s a prominent establishment figure , General Tani Kanjó , had called for greater attention to be given to the interests of the farming population . |
| 14 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 15 | From a scrummage on the 22 a double mis-move by Hepburn created the gap for centre Wilcoxon to score under the posts . |
| 16 | The first was an assembly of colourful baskets filled with spring flowers , and the second a modern design of two large black hoops with fasciated willow , cerise pink gerberas and arum leaves . |
| 17 | The first saw every athletic nation in the world represented , the second a retaliatory boycott by most of the nations of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 18 | On the first tier are the figures of Adam and Eve , while on the second a fine relief of Christ 's birth is flanked by figures of the Annunciation , the presentation at the Temple and the Magi . |
| 19 | Acclaimed as a Pre-Raphaelite painter by this school 's chief commentator W. M. Rossetti [ q.v. ] in 1871 , she became during the 1870s a recognized member of that group of artists seen by critics to be following in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel Rossetti [ q.v. ] and Burne-Jones . |
| 20 | During the Seventies a hazy eroticism was on offer every week , courtesy of Pan 's People in their gold Lurex hot pants . |
| 21 | For gifted children much of the school day can be at the best an irrelevance , at the worst a tedious obstruction to effective learning . |
| 22 | And just as well , because yesterday 's press was perhaps the worst a prime minister has faced since the Suez crisis . |
| 23 | Here , there was from the 1740s a considerable expansion in the number of women working at the surface , for from then to the 1850s the mining of copper was of greater importance than tin and , as was pointed out in 1810 , " the copper mines when in full working employ a good number of women and children who are useless about tin " . |
| 24 | Hugh Kenner , for instance , in a work of massive scholarship , The Pound Era ( 1971 ) , can write : ‘ By the mid-1920s a massive triviality , a failure of will on a truly forbidding scale , was allowing English culture to lapse into shapes characterized by childishness , self-indulgence , utter predictability ’ . |
| 25 | WHEN America joined World War II in the 1940s a serious shortage arose — of baseball . |
| 26 | one said , one of those , er petrol weekend things , about all the black things , and they they were saying , you know , the black a black mood . |
| 27 | But he also provided the second , because — with the possible exception of the United States , that land which appeared to promise the poor a personal way out of lifelong poverty , the worker a private exit from the working class , and every citizen equality with every other — the working classes knew that the liberal free market alone would not give them their rights and their needs . |
| 28 | In the 1970s a small number of feminist critics accused most of these influential and widely cited texts of sexism , ( targets included A. Campbell et al , The American Voter ; G. Almond and S. Verba , The Civic Culture ; R. Lane , Political Life ; R. A. Dahl , Who Governs ? ) . |
| 29 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 30 | In the USA in the 1970s a middle-class child raised through four years at college cost $74,000 and $145,000 if the wife 's opportunity costs were included as well ( Espenshade 1980 ) . |