Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , if you 're a superstar , it 's no good admitting that you found a route given three grades easier than your latest creation anything but a path ! |
| 2 | It forms down a route called Terminal Wall on Creag Tharsuinn . |
| 3 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 4 | Obviously this was a ruse to throw would-be pursuers off the scent . |
| 5 | The markers that are characteristic of a variety perform social functions at lower and higher levels of generality . |
| 6 | When debating their new Constitution in 1988 , Congress passed a provision to force foreign companies to divest their controlling interests in mineral extraction over a four-year period . |
| 7 | The United States House of Representatives had voted on May 22 to incorporate in a foreign aid bill ( which was , however , subsequently defeated ) a provision cutting military aid to El Salvador by 50 per cent , in protest at the failure of the authorities to prosecute the murderers of the priests . |
| 8 | The argument is that section 47 can not stand because it is inconsistent with article 30 of the Treaty , a provision having direct effect which prohibits between member states quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect ; it is said that the prohibition against Sunday trading in this country has such an effect . |
| 9 | He points out that such a provision bans any invasion of sovereign territory , air space and maritime zones , even where there might seem to be good grounds . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , a provision declaring signed accounts to be binding will not apply in the event that a partner is induced to sign a false account believing it to be true . |
| 11 | One does not have to be a statistician to discount these results . |
| 12 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 13 | Will there be a Swindon Branch some day ? |
| 14 | You can have up to two teaspoons of a low-fat polyunsaturated rich margarine , such as Flora Light per day . |
| 15 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 16 | On Sept. 28 , after a trial lasting three years , the former chief of the Aviation Security Command , Brig. -Gen . |
| 17 | After a trial lasting seven days and presided over by Judge Rucker , the jury convicted the appellant of the four counts . |
| 18 | Over 400 patients have already been recruited into a trial to test this regimen . |
| 19 | Assured of success by the dream of a warrior called Black Hair , twenty-eight warriors , including Ollokot , Looking Glass , Toohoolhoolzote , Two Moons and Bird Alighting , stealthily entered Howard 's camp at 3.30 a.m. to steal his horses . |
| 20 | Returning to camp several days later with twelve horses laden with meat , they were met by a warrior named Two Moons , who announced that the war had started . |
| 21 | It was , therefore , proposed in 1953 to introduce a form of ‘ boost ’ training for trained crews on reserve status whereby they could return to a squadron to undertake two weeks of intensive refresher flying . |
| 22 | INDIA 'S population is 844m and expanding by almost 18m a year , according to a census published this week . |
| 23 | As John Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , observed in his summing-up in a case involving alleged racism by the headteacher in a Brent infant school : |
| 24 | On the other hand a case lasting 2 years which went to trial where both liability and quantum were both heavily contested could easily rack up between 30 and 50 hours without too much difficulty . |
| 25 | A case having outside dimensions of about 160 by 140 by 50 millimetres or more is adequate to accommodate everything . |
| 26 | You seemed a bit distracted last night . |
| 27 | was a bit drunk one afternoon at about four o'clock and he said , ‘ If it was just an ‘ oul book we could have done something for you but with marrying this foreign woman you 're a hopeless case . ’ |
| 28 | You 've got a week and a bit to do four questions . |
| 29 | Probably me cos er I think I was a bit provoking last night , what I was wearing . |
| 30 | she 's running a bit buying bloody washing machines and carpets and |