Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was busy cooking , blissing out on the aroma of cod in a yoghurt and fresh coriander sauce , and was n't really listening , but through the vapours there penetrated the fact that in Derbyshire they were queuing up recently to do a route on Raven Tor which is ‘ easy 8a , ’ in order to get into a book which David Jones has assembled on climbers — particularly those who can climb 8a . |
| 2 | So I map out a route over familiar country near home which takes in some old hedges and one-time mushroom pastures , hoist a gathering bag over my shoulder — and then curse the fact that the mid-October day that I have carefully planned for this expedition turns out to be the most dismal of the autumn so far . |
| 3 | Andrew and John were recruited with the objective of being prepared for Shell work on the Brent contract , and have systematically followed a route of planned training , to work for Wood Group Engineering Contractors on a Shell site and installation . |
| 4 | Forsaken as a route of any merit in ascent , it is the obligatory way down for parties summitting from the classic South Ridge of West Face climbs . |
| 5 | ‘ Competitions now seem derisory to me after the ascent of a route of this scale ’ . |
| 6 | Jibé is enthusiastic that a route of this length and level of difficulty will divert attention away from the fashion for ‘ microroute ’ 8c 's , like Ben Moon 's Maginot Line/le Plafond and Hubble . |
| 7 | Jim Simpson 's Zig Zag ( VS ) in 1948 was a fine effort up the Raven Wall — a bold venture taking a route of considerable quality . |
| 8 | Warren Beatty also discovered a route to instant fame , co-starring with Natalie Wood , one of the world 's most glamorous young actresses in 1959 , in Elia Kazan 's Splendor in the Grass . |
| 9 | Crisps and cornflakes are cornerstones of the multinational mass market , and maybe they could be a route to worldwide understanding , but they have little to contribute directly to the second problem — that of the short-term habitat destruction , which is now a worldwide epidemic . |
| 10 | The MPDS is a route to early membership of the IMechE [ and chartered status ] . |
| 11 | This gives a route to acetic acid , selling for about £310 a tonne , that is more economic than the one from say , ethanol , at around £470 a tonne . |
| 12 | Labour 's economic policies are wrong , not chiefly because they are still preoccupied with redistributing wealth ( although they are ) , but because they reflect Labour 's conviction that public rather than private spending offers a route to national prosperity . |
| 13 | As Professor Chapman observes , high status nursing can be seen as a route to social mobility ; the more closely the nurse works with a doctor as a member of the team , the more prestigious the job is assumed to be . |
| 14 | Transfer of limestone shipments from rail to road would send heavy lorries along a route with several accident blackspots , a North Yorkshire councillor warned on Wednesday . |
| 15 | At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture , but a payment of two rhinu left them astoundedly agreeing that perhaps He was n't as holy as all that . |
| 16 | A payment of this kind may be capital or income ( for tax purposes ) in the hands of the landlord , depending on the circumstances . |
| 17 | Administration is considerably more difficult to define briefly , but for our purposes may be taken to mean the application of general rules to particular cases by the making of some order ( for example , a demolition order ) , or some decision ( for example , that an immigrant 's entry certificate was obtained by fraud in contravention of some statutory regulation ) , or by performing some action ( for example , making a payment of social security benefit ) . |
| 18 | The idea of a payment for public exhibition was first developed in Sweden during the late 1960s and is based on the idea that the exhibition of paintings and other works of art is a service to society and , accordingly , the artist should receive some form of exhibition payment . |
| 19 | Subsequent experiments tested the effect of rest periods , the duration of work and the use of a payment by piece-work system . |
| 20 | Lincolnshire is predominantly rural county , the main centre being the city of Lincoln , with a variety of medium-sized market towns such as Louth , Gainsborough , Boston and Grantham . |
| 21 | These employees are involved in a variety of tasks concerned with the manufacture and sale of writing instruments — together with a variety of administrative support functions . |
| 22 | that would be of interest , sort of allow them not only to be interested but would , would show them a variety of graphic design based on similar ideas . |
| 23 | A more specific similarity is the presence in the Gloucester pavement of a variety of eight-petalled rosette which has a small , circular heart projecting four spindly lines to the " petals " . |
| 24 | Apart from drugs , detectives believe money is laundered from a variety of black market deals involving arms and high technology . |
| 25 | The most popular designs are prayer-rug , medallion and repeating geometric forms , with a variety of vegetal-inspired infill decorations ; numerous interpretations of boteh , herati , tree-of-life and allover floral schemes are also extremely popular ( see Chapter IV ) . |
| 26 | NET ( UK ) sees the opportunity to expand into a variety of environmental testing sectors including solid wastes , air , soil , and man-made products such as food . |
| 27 | Another recent innovation is that of biotechnology , which involves the use of organisms ( especially bacteria ) in industrial and technological processes and which is being applied to a variety of environmental management problems such as waste treatment . |
| 28 | The play is enlivened by the vicious energy of the performances and by a variety of Irish music and dance which ranges from mournful ballads to the jolliest of jigs , transforming what could have been a dreary harangue into an invigorating ensemble work . |
| 29 | Her meals had a variety of dry finger foods like bread and butter , fish fingers or chips and some mushy foods like apple purée . |
| 30 | Because toll goods can be made excludable , they may be provided by a variety of private sector organizations , such as profit-maximizing firms or clubs and associations . |