Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a unique flavour was provided by the appearance of Stephanie Anne Lloyd ( formerly Kenneth Hull ) , ‘ by a technicality your first full female member ’ . |
| 2 | In they came accompanied by a Sister whose red QA cape clashed horribly with her beautiful auburn hair . |
| 3 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 4 | The little girl to whom Wolfgang had impudently proposed marriage when they were children was now Queen of France ; and tales of her extravagant lifestyle at the glittering court of Versailles were stirring up murmurs of discontent among ordinary Frenchmen , setting alight a fuse which 11 years later was to blow not only France but much of Europe apart . |
| 5 | After a bit we both found the grammar rather monotonous and tried a little conversation so that my English would benefit too . |
| 6 | It is worth considering how to start the investigation : whether to do a bit yourself first to get them going , or work with the whole class as a large group , or just state the problem and let them do it all . |
| 7 | Erm and I mean you 've obviously got to judge a bit your own capacity |
| 8 | Thus shared use of computer , library and training facilities can be organised regionally or nationwide to a level which individual firms could never hope to attain on their own . |
| 9 | How do you ensure , for example , that your staff have the high-level teaching experience which comes with years of practice and training , and also up-to-date and personal familiarity with ‘ the trade ’ at a level which industrial and commercial representatives will find credible ? |
| 10 | In this model , we infused bile salts into the ileal lumen at a concentration of 10 mmol/l , a level which both approximated these postprandial luminal values and significantly inhibited ileal motor activity . |
| 11 | I consider the idea that the issue should be decided by a referendum nothing short of bizarre . |
| 12 | It implies that a curriculum which first offers students theoretical components , and then expects them to put the theory ‘ into practice ’ in the practical situation , is misconceived . |
| 13 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 14 | Can I thank you for those generous comments that you say towards er , , I think they 're totally true , he 's worked extremely hard in making sure this council has a budget which balanced , and it 's due to his expertise and bullying tactics that we 've succeeded , and he should be fully congratulated for that , and I think it 's the determination of those who were elected in May as well , to make sure that we protected services and jobs , and , and make sure that we actually carried out the mandate which the electors elected us to do that we have such ach achieved what we have achieved today . |
| 15 | It 's a part she last played a year ago and ‘ actually remembered the lines ’ . |
| 16 | I came across a text which Christian Zervos had written in 1931 . |
| 17 | If the central provinces are taken as typical , the neo-populist case is persuasive ; if , on the other hand , the outlying provinces are regarded as blazing a trail which central Russia would follow , it falls to the ground . |
| 18 | Should we insist that children spend all their time with a literature whose main non-white representatives are Othello , Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe and the savages in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness ? |
| 19 | Confined to their present role , trade unions would remain a response to the exploitation , actual or hypothetical , of employees by employers — a response which meritocratic benevolence would , if performance matched intention , progressively reduce to a satisfied silence . |
| 20 | His secret weapon has been a three-wood he first used last June . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps you should go into a betting-shop yourself one day . |
| 22 | Frazer also mentions a sanctuary whose mephitic area contains only ‘ the eunuch priests of the Great Mother Goddess ’ , who have ‘ a look on their faces as if they were being choked ’ . |
| 23 | Each opens with thanks addressed to Jesus for the particular incident of the Passion under consideration and closes with a prayer which first applies this incident to aspects of the meditator 's own life and then modulates into a set pattern indicated by the Latin directives Pater Noster , Et ne nos , Adoramus , Aue [ Our Father , And [ lead ] us not , we praise , Hail ] . |
| 24 | ( Gav looked defensive for all of a micro-second , a concession my lacerated self-respect fell upon with all the pathetic desperation of a humiliatingly defeated politician pointing out that well , things can only get better . ) |
| 25 | I suppose when sport is discussed horse racing has always been a part of village life , a pastime which most of the working men have indulged in . |
| 26 | It is perhaps reassuring that they at least recognised utter nonsense when they wrote it , if disappointing that this was essentially a confession of failure by a Ministry whose central function had been to coordinate energy policy . |
| 27 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 28 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 29 | Fort Marcy , who had won the race in 1967 , was third favourite in a field whose eight runners bore witness to a truly international contest . |
| 30 | A stile over a stone wall led into a field whose furthest wall consisted of the grey squat towers of the castle . |