Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , it is difficult to see how some of Porter 's ten cost-drivers can be used to assign costs to products in an activity-based costing sense . |
| 2 | After all , one alternative upon discovering from an activity-based costing system that many products are unprofitable is to focus on reducing their costs rather than close down their production lines . |
| 3 | by nervous fingers , how an upset teaspoon will |
| 4 | But services still suffer , and many capital projects — including an urgently-needed day centre — never get started because the council can not afford to maintain them . |
| 5 | Charles Dickens had something similar on his mind when , in an embittered flogging essay of 1860 , he accused ‘ The Ruffian ’ of making London 's streets as perilous as a ‘ solitary mountain-spur of the Abruzzi ’ . |
| 6 | An embittered West Country clothier complained in 1739 that the only persons who supported the poor were those who did not know of " the insolence , idleness , debauchery , frauds and dishonesty " of the weavers . |
| 7 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 8 | So on September 12 1987 , an album was issued by an extinct pop group . |
| 9 | While cyclists can currently travel from Merthyr to Talybont-on-Usk using a combination of disused railway lines , forestry tracks and minor roads , the stretch between Talybont and Brecon is along an unsuitable canal towpath . |
| 10 | The crystal structure of the met repressor-operator complex shows two dimeric repressor molecules bound to adjacent sites 8 base pairs apart on an 18-base-pair DNA fragment . |
| 11 | An archaeologist who has transformed the way people think about his area of study ; a communicator who can make an enthralling TV programme ; a lover of contemporary art who has persuaded the Fellows of his Cambridge college at least to tolerate biannual sculpture shows ( one of which involved digging up the hallowed lawns ) ; and now , since his peerage which gives him the forum of Britain 's Upper House , a politician , with strong views on how to preserve the world 's history as encapsulated in its archaeology : Colin Renfrew at fifty-five has an enviable career and range of interests . |
| 12 | The controversial Mildmay fences posed no problems they could not solve and , eight months in advance , everything is set for an enthralling Boxing Day confrontation in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 13 | An attempted Army rebellion in support of imprisoned former Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldin was crushed by loyalist forces on Dec. 3 . |
| 14 | THREE men appeared before Darlington magistrates yesterday charged with offences relating to an attempted kidnap incident in Darlington on January 18 . |
| 15 | The boozy juror , who is in his thirties , made his amazing request a minute before the lunch break in an attempted murder trial at Inner London Crown Court . |
| 16 | RAMBO star Sylvester Stallone 's son is to be quizzed over an attempted murder plot , it was revealed last night . |
| 17 | A WHO-DUNNIT on stage turned into an attempted murder inquiry when the baddie shot his victim for real . |
| 18 | POLICE investigating an attempted murder bid on a leading Shankill Road loyalist have appealed for information from anyone who witnessed the attack . |
| 19 | He said that the woman , who had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 1986 after an attempted arson attack , would probably not be fit to stand trial because of her mental condition . |
| 20 | EXPLOSIVES smuggled in the soles of training shoes were to be used in an attempted daylight breakout by more than a dozen IRA men in a top security prison , it emerged yesterday . |
| 21 | Police had given chase after foiling an attempted ram raid in Marlborough . |
| 22 | The officer , who carried on to arrest a man suspected of an attempted bank raid , was in hospital yesterday . |
| 23 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |
| 24 | BOOKMAKERS William Hill suspended bets on Charles renouncing the throne after fears of an attempted betting coup by royal insiders . |
| 25 | CLEVELAND police are today hoping to interview a man thought to have made an attempted suicide bid by leaping from a Stockton bridge . |
| 26 | Their noses and foreheads bump against each other ; there is a sudden flurry of limbs , an absurd pantomime struggle . |
| 27 | In the opening chapter of the novel , Pierre Bloye , confronted by the corpse of his father , instinctively alienated by the rituals and incantations of an absurd funeral ceremony , despairing at his mother 's willing acquiescence to the arid conventions of petty-bourgeois existence , asks himself the fundamental question : " What sort of a man was my father ? " |
| 28 | In the A7 , the Single Chip A Series Mainframe Processor is combined with an 80486 companion processor , using the common iAPX-86 architecture dev-eloped by Unisys for its personal computers , Unix and CTOS machines ; it is there to support Unix or OS/2 applications in parallel with the proprietary MCP/AS . |
| 29 | French relief workers claimed that the Djibouti government and French army officers stationed in Djibouti had sent back a group of refugees across the border into an inhospitable desert region of Ethiopia on June 2 ; however , the French Foreign Ministry denied that there had been any forcible expulsions from Djibouti . |
| 30 | It 's an icon-driven multipart adventure and quite possibly one of the most involving and well-presented strategy programs available and is still an essential purchase even now . |