Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A goalless first leg at Hillsborough had left the whiff of an upset mingling with the burgers and Bovril , but Wednesday cleared the air ruthlessly with four first-half goals in the space of 23 minutes . |
| 2 | But Djwa rightly perceives that ‘ reading through Cohen 's work we become aware of an unsatisfied search for an absolute . ’ |
| 3 | Geologically , this area is an alluvial fan of a giant rock slide of granitic gneisses . |
| 4 | As noticed ( p. 59 ) it is now known that the graptolites were an extinct branch of the phylum Hemichordata , an insignificant group today , consisting of a few encrusting colonial organisms . |
| 5 | Their presence in normal schools would be disruptive to the general process of education and an unsuitable environment for the children concerned . |
| 6 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 7 | If you do muddle up the crowd-flow arrangements , Over-stretch the facilities or pick an unsuitable venue in the first place , you cause enormous distractions from the event and the message . |
| 8 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 9 | Robert Henderson reviews an enthralling staging of The Fiery Angel |
| 10 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 11 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 12 | Elizabeth 's legitimacy as Anne Boleyn 's daughter depended upon the validity of her father 's divorce , and the new government was also propelled in an anti-papal direction by the crown 's need for money and by the general uneasiness about the papal attitude to expropriated church property . |
| 13 | We are aware , in the novels we read , both of an authorial identification with the leading character or the first-person narrator , and of material that might constitute an authorial judgement in that respect : but we do n't know what the verdict is . |
| 14 | Establishing an authorial version of the play is usually an editorial attempt to give that version authority over others . |
| 15 | At the root of these distinctions is an attempted differentiation between the production of one kind of object and another . |
| 16 | Its time of usefulness was relatively short , though it lasted as a fortress until 1621 , when some local Protestants used it as their strong point in an attempted uprising against the new , official Catholicism of the region . |
| 17 | Two Darlington men were jailed for four months by magistrates yesterday for their part in an attempted burglary of a terraced house in the town . |
| 18 | The re-emergence of the court onto the political scene and its collusion with many of the Bakufu 's other opponents promoted an attempted rapprochement between the Tokugawa and imperial factions in the early 1860s , but this proved short-lived . |
| 19 | An attempted census of the breeding population between 1962 and 1966 recorded only about 15 pairs . |
| 20 | Of these six cases in which lawyer B did not adopt the client 's chosen outcome as his objective , numbers one to four involve an attempted transformation of the client 's chosen outcome , and number five is a refusal to translate . |
| 21 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 22 | The New Republic controversy is about prohibition : of the use of drugs which , though extended to all , essentially affect only the few ; and now an attempted prohibition of the very discussion of the issues involved . |
| 23 | Brian Jewell in Fairs and Revels suggests that the queen was originally a man dressed as a woman , but George Burton believed the tradition began in 1789 during an attempted suppression of the ‘ sport ’ . |
| 24 | Bond was charged under the Western Australian Securities Code with dishonestly concealing the fact that Rothwells had agreed to pay Bond Corp. a fee of A$16,000,000 for taking part in an attempted rescue of the bank in 1987 . |
| 25 | On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 26 | Many clearly accepted the propaganda version of events and , even if they had begun to have their doubts about Hitler , regarded the plot as a sacrilegious and treasonable act against the head of State , and an attempted sabotage of the war effort . |
| 27 | On June 12 , in the midst of rumours of an attempted coup by the outgoing government — an accusation made by Walesa at the Solidarity congress [ see below ] — Milczanowski ascertained that Piotr Naimski , head of the State Security Office , had ordered Interior Ministry troops on to alert on June 4 . |
| 28 | Those released on March 2 included military officers and civil servants who had been accused of taking advantage of the campaign for the December 1990 municipal elections to organize an attempted coup against the regime of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya . |
| 29 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 30 | The defender blocks an attempted punch to the face . |