Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its first year Eurosport has enjoyed access to live transmissions of the athletics , motorcycling and Formula One Grand Prix circuits and acres of European football , an advantage which British Satellite Broadcasting , the ‘ squarial ’ company hoping to transmit next year , claims is unfair . |
| 2 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 3 | In an instant his fine offering consisted of nothing but a tangle of leaves and twigs and the pale unlovely innards of dead blossoms . |
| 4 | I thought , it 's an insult my flipping intelligence ! |
| 5 | The other was an algorithm which integrated bottom-up and top-down knowledge sources ( Srihari , Hull and Choudhari , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Dorothy began the Alfoxden Journal with an entry which one editor , H. Eigerman , has printed in free verse as if it were an Imagist poem : |
| 7 | What generally happens in practice is that an applicant whose total score is above a certain level would normally get credit automatically . |
| 8 | POLICE were last night trying to trace an actress whose 11-year-old daughter was found alone in a flat after she apparently flew to Spain on holiday . |
| 9 | It is an accusation which this analysis fully supports . |
| 10 | In this case the producers were Max Norman ( An Englishman whose past production credits include Lynch Mob , Ozzy Ozbourne and Armored Saint — NJB ) and Dave Mustaine . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ As the transport and strategic planning authority for the area around Edinburgh as well as within the city itself , Lothian Regional Council is able to take an overview which smaller single-tier councils would lack if the Government abolished the region . |
| 12 | Especially with an organisation whose public profile continues to rise , whose impact on governments is openly acknowledged , and which is steadily gathering support from more and more people . |
| 13 | a private mobile radio system gives an organisation its own radio frequency on which employees can communicate using hand-held radios . |
| 14 | And that is very important in an age whose cultural life is divided between ‘ high ’ , minority , activity and ‘ low ’ , mass , activity as never before . |
| 15 | An adult whose mental capacity is unimpaired has the right to decide for herself whether she will or will not receive medical or surgical treatment , even in circumstances where she is likely or even certain to die in the absence of treatment . |
| 16 | The child who has been told that he is ‘ useless ’ , ‘ stupid ’ or will ‘ never amount to anything ’ will go on to become an adult whose Inner Face is that of a worthless individual — even If events prove that the truth is very different . |
| 17 | Each team is accompanied by an assistant whose only function is to quickly scoop up any droppings . |
| 18 | Wilby was interviewed by an assistant his own age before being granted a £2,500 loan in the name of his father William , 49 . |
| 19 | Throughout the 1970s , central and local government were responsible for the publication of a range of plans and reports designed to re-invigorate an area whose economic base might have disappeared , but one with tremendous opportunities and where almost 50,000 people still lived ( Ambrose , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | The social anthropologist is equally , of course , an entrepreneur whose special expertise lies in mediating between exotic cultures and his own , and he has the same vested interests as other go-betweens . |
| 21 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 22 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 23 | The prime requirement then is to produce an extremely thin but uniform glass/rock bond ( ‘ zero bond' ) with an adhesive whose refractive index is close to that of glass . |
| 24 | But spokesman Bob Phillips said it was not an incident which required reporting to the Government . |
| 25 | This selection of an elevated vantage point , which often required much exertion to reach , is an approach which separated Green from many of the earlier painters , but was subsequently followed by many . |
| 26 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 27 | In 1834 , as we have already seen , he brought to an end his six-year occupation of the Danubian Principalities . |
| 28 | But we have to identify some of the failings of the report at the ninety-f nineteen eighty five congress , motion forty urged the C E C to ensure that each region appoints an officer whose prime responsibility will be health and safety . |
| 29 | Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one . |
| 30 | It is understandable , in terms of natural selection , that an animal whose natural habitat is the underside of stones should congregate in the dark : but bow do they do it ? |