Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 17th minister was expected to be named later , Voice of Ethiopia radio reported . |
| 2 | COHQ 's plan avoiding a frontal assault was changed when direction of the raid passed to the Army 's UK Home Forces Command , after a political decision was made to replace the marines with Canadian forces . |
| 3 | At 13–00 hours a frontal attack was made by tanks who approached within 20 yards of company positions , firing at point blank range . |
| 4 | A frontal lobotomy was of more use . |
| 5 | The nearest Britain came to having a deaf monarch was in the case of Prince Albert Victor , eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales , later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra . |
| 6 | SPECIAL interpreters assisted yesterday at the opening of a unique trial at Cardiff Crown Court , where a deaf man was accused of murdering a deaf woman who had speech difficulties . |
| 7 | Big dish , little dish — a 59-ft telescope was installed at Parkes in 1963 to form interferometer with the main dish . |
| 8 | Separated from the other two by the fire , a pleasant intimacy was engendered , so that each couple tended to intersperse the general conversation with their own . |
| 9 | I understand that your institution covers not only Cambridgeshire but also Norfolk and Suffolk , so my welcome is a particular one to those delegates who have travelled here from neighbouring counties today , and I trust that your journey on such a pleasant morning was a really good one and that you 'll find that this symposium is going to be very worthwhile . |
| 10 | These two arrangements , which directly and indirectly committed Britain to major international financial responsibilities in which the operation of sterling as a reserve currency was an essential element , stemmed from a deeper commitment to the belief in Britain 's world role [ Clarke , 1982 ; Scammell , 1980 ; Strange , 1971 ] . |
| 11 | Whatever prestige and influence might be gained by being a reserve currency was wholly insufficient to compensate for export profits being lost by overvaluation . |
| 12 | A colonic mucosal biopsy obtained at endoscopic follow up from a non-inflammatory bowel disease patient with a colonic polyp was also positive for M paratuberculosis . |
| 13 | Then , running her eyes along the row of plane trees , she suddenly noticed , for the first time , that a medium-sized dragon was sitting in the upper branches of a particularly fine plane tree and munching a green leaf . |
| 14 | A retrospective study was performed of an 11 year period ( 1978–88 ) to analyse the survival of 112 patients ( 85 men and 27 women , mean age 63 years ) with adenocarcinoma in a columnar lined ( Barrett 's ) oesophagus in respect of surgical treatment , tumour staging , and histological grading . |
| 15 | A retrospective analysis was undertaken of the results of the first attempt at in vitro fertilization ( IVF ) treatment to evaluate the effects of cigarette smoking by either partner in events preceding and during oocyte recovery , fertilization , implantation , and early pregnancy in a group of patients undergoing IVF-ET . |
| 16 | But what in the case of the academics has simply been misleading , for a reigning queen was to have profound and ultimately disastrous political consequences . |
| 17 | In a county where more than one political interest existed , competition over the post of collector of supply brought many headaches for the politicians , whose desire to support a friendly candidate was tempered by their very real fears of losing the friendship of those who also desired the collectorship . |
| 18 | They were lucky to survive in the 40th minute when Taylor headed against the crossbar , but Wycombe 's Steve Thompson saw a 49th-minute header was cleared off the line by Paul Raven . |
| 19 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 20 | In the event , a tripartite system was decided on . |
| 21 | We all shook hands and drank to seal our agreement before returning to St Paul 's and the desks of the scriveners where a tripartite indenture was drawn up . |
| 22 | A tripartite distinction was drawn as to the scope of review . |
| 23 | Macpherson has argued convincingly that it was in the context of just such a society that the case For a representative democracy was initially accepted , first as a logical requirement to protect acquisitive , self-interested and conflicting individuals ( from rapacious governments and from one another ) and second to establish and nurture a free market economy ( MacPherson , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 25 | A 79-YEAR-OLD man was struck with a hammer by a burglar who broke into his home , Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 26 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 27 | So a small-scale inquiry was carried out by the Welsh Consumer Council in connection with our report , to survey the availability of credit to Welsh rural shoppers in the centres they would use . |
| 28 | A superficial cancer of the bladder was detected during transrectal ultrasonography of the prostate and a caecal cancer was found on barium enema examination in a patient with iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 29 | To meet these needs , a three-stage pattern was anticipated : a first or induction stage , providing a brief initiation into basic teaching skills , which all part-time teachers would be expected to undertake ; a second stage involving more advanced training in pedagogical skills , which the majority would be encouraged to complete ; and a third stage , for those anticipating more substantial service , which would lead to the award of a Certificate in Education . |
| 30 | Over 2000 years ago the Greeks realised that a full turn or even a right angle was far too large an amount of turn for many situations . |