Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COURTAULDS is buying a Spanish marine and yacht coatings business in a move to strengthen its hand in southern Europe . |
| 2 | United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games . |
| 3 | The purpose of the current investigation is to show a possible binding or uptake of PT-gliadin in the enterocytes , and to compare the handling of the components between coeliac patients and controls . |
| 4 | Arabella Keneally , a strong anti-feminist and populariser of medical views on women ( especially those of Geddes and Thompson ) , believed that higher education for women induced hormonal imbalance . |
| 5 | The other is that efforts to forge a European foreign and security policy ( loudly backed in principle by the Germans ) may be doomed . |
| 6 | It also allows the New Right and sections of the media to connect the purging of ‘ negative images ’ from textbooks with other authoritarian or top-down antiracist policies by LEAs and schools and to represent the whole exercise as a Labour left and antiracist ‘ totalitarian ’ conspiracy . |
| 7 | Although we have found that white wood glue ( Poly Vinyl Acetate ) or Aliphatic Resin will hold a seamed joint or hem in Tyvek , the real advantage of the material is its acceptance of sewing . |
| 8 | In contrast , Haya de la Torre insisted that the orthodox Marxist theory concerning stages of production had to be applied to Latin America , and he urged completion of the democratic ‘ bourgeois ’ stage of political development through a combined anti-imperialist and anti-feudalist revolution . |
| 9 | Peacock , who had not yet left the palace after dining with the King , noticed that the Prime Minister had gone into the King 's room like a shattered man-'scared and unbalanced' was Wigram 's phrase- and emerged with head erect and confidence restored . |
| 10 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 11 | Thus in a case such as Anisminic one would say , inter alia , that if there is property in Egypt , which belongs to a British national or successor in title at the relevant dates , which has been seized , the FCC shall award compensation . |
| 12 | He was an extraordinarily handsome young man of about my own age , which is thirty , and he had an aquiline nose , sculptured lips and hair curling over a high black and silver collar . |
| 13 | For burying , a long-boarded general-purpose or lea plough does the cleanest job , turning up an unbroken , shiny furrow . |
| 14 | The World Council of Churches , the association of Protestant and Orthodox Christian churches around the world , elected Konrad Raiser as its new General Secretary on Aug. 24 ; a German national and professor of systematic theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum , Raiser succeeded Emilio Castro of Uruguay . |
| 15 | FIGURE 1 I nearly always start drawing the ‘ bones ’ of the picture with a small brush dipped in a light cerulean or cobalt blue — ultramarine is too strong a colour , and I roughly mark out windows , table , plant etc |
| 16 | Jacques Delors , the President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , proposed on March 7 that the EC go beyond establishing a joint foreign and security policy and commit itself to a common European defence policy . |
| 17 | So we cashed an endowment policy and called at the Cleveland Garage where we bought a gleaming black and chrome palace on wheels , a Standard Vanguard , for £240 . |
| 18 | In the cobbled enclosure of the outer bailey they were aware of a vague stirring and sound . |
| 19 | Others , notably Mr Forster , have tried to elevate a personal aesthetic or mystique into a moral theory , and often it has wobbled over into sentimentality . |
| 20 | The software eventually found to meet the school 's needs a limited financial and staffing resources , was LIBRAFILE , an issue system designed to run on a 48K BBC-B microcomputer . |
| 21 | But Dr Hesham El-Essawy , a prominent moderate and chairman of the Islamic Society for the Promotion of Religious Tolerance , preaches caution . |
| 22 | In Paris , Vienna and Berlin , modernism meant a break with a preceding historical or historicist style that predominated especially in painting and architecture . |
| 23 | It is one of the greatest tragedies of the church in the west today that there is a similar grumbling and hardening of heart , so that the word of the Lord is simply not heard ; and if heard , then it is not obeyed . |
| 24 | A common modern technique is similar to guitar finger style using a CC-G-C or a similar fifth and octave tuning which gives greater versatility without re-tuning and can be further extended by the introduction of an extra fret between the 6th and 7th . |
| 25 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 26 | An Edwardian telescopic dining table , one extra leaf , made £575 ; a Victorian ebonised and marquetry three door display cabinet , £550 and a three-piece walnut framed two-seater suite , £510 . |
| 27 | This started a real rough and tumble , with people falling or being pushed to the ground amongst the debris . |
| 28 | to rugby next the cherry and whites are back on the winning trail … they beat Pontypool at the weekend in a real rough and tumble of a game … |
| 29 | Genuine gold-ground paintings have a warm brown or terracotta green for the half tones , applied very thinly in the half shadows and shadows with pronounced lead white highlights on the cheeks , bridge of nose and upper lip . |
| 30 | A detailed kinematic understanding is thus available and this can lead on to a comprehensive dynamic and performance analysis if so desired . |