Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then on Pentecost Sunday , Pentecost Day , ten days after the Ascension and fifty days after then resurrection , the apostles had an experience which not only changed them but changed the whole history of the world . |
| 2 | Minton , perceiving Cornish 's shyness , made him answer most of the questions and listened attentively to his replies , thereby forcing Cornish through the shyness barrier , an experience he ever afterwards felt stood him in good stead . |
| 3 | The original equations of General Relativity implied the expansion of the Universe , but Einstein was so disturbed by the notion that he introduced another term to eliminate it , an action he later much regretted . |
| 4 | Why should a society dedicated to an economy of profit-making competitive enterprise , to the efforts of the isolated individual , to equality of rights and opportunities and freedom , rest on an institution which so totally denied all of these ? |
| 5 | Again , we have put in a letter from an agent which quite clearly shows in his professional opinion , that a new settlement would be successful . |
| 6 | Oh , Charles dear , this is an honour you so richly deserve . |
| 7 | Attitudes on an issue which hardly ever figures in the popular press and does not fit into a ready-made political rut are bound to change slowly . |
| 8 | It accepted that while there were arguments for a full scale review , the priority had to progress on an alteration which as quickly as possible , established the principle of a Greater York new settlement and progress on the greenbelt local plan . |
| 9 | Charlotte said , on an impulse she only partially understood : ‘ Do n't worry about him . |
| 10 | The general conclusion of the new classical macroeconomics is that the most that the monetary authorities can hope to achieve by shifting unexpectedly from one policy rule to another is to increase the variance of output around its given mean value of y * ; , an objective which not even the most unrepentant policy activist would dream of advocating . |
| 11 | The object sought is an ever more accurate understanding of Community legal texts and an interpretation which as far as possible ensures harmony between national and Community provisions . |
| 12 | Apparently , Patrick Eggle has talked with manufacturers of quality , ‘ unfinished ’ furniture and has chosen an oil which not only protects , but also enhances the natural grain of the wood . |
| 13 | But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away . |
| 14 | Whitley ( 1990 : 63 ) has suggested that enterprise structures which are premised on producing a relatively concentrated range of related products will tend , of necessity , to resort to market relations in order to complement this narrow base , an option which more imperatively co-ordinated organizations will not require . |
| 15 | And , in the Franks Report on ministerial handling of the conflict , we have an archive which not only shortens dramatically the interval before the normal release of classified information but goes considerably further than any disclosures at the end of the statutory thirty years in the amount of intelligence material displayed . |