Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] an [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a dramatic decline made possible an improvement in the opportunity index , the measure of the percentage of all eleven-year-old children going on to secondary education . |
| 2 | Investigators , astounded that the four could survive such an ordeal in the southern hemisphere winter , are puzzled by a number of details . |
| 3 | Someone says something particularly stupid in a shop , or you wait half an hour in the British Rail canteen because someone ca n't decide whether they want some fruitcake or not . |
| 4 | She argued that Marx 's schema of reproduction became unbalanced if one assumed such an increase in the organic composition of capital . |
| 5 | I call upon everyone to begin to work to create such an agenda in the coming months , mindful that each of us may have to make some compromises along the way if we are to end with something in which we all can believe . |
| 6 | It was agreed that there should be further investigation into optimum methods of publicising such an event in the future , and it was noted that setting up a central diary of events might help to reduce the chances of conflicting or uncomfortably close dates for similar events being chosen . |
| 7 | When life is hectic and you 've only got half an hour in the evening to snatch a meal , a heartwarming bowl of Campbell 's condensed soup with some crusty bread makes an ideal supper . |
| 8 | But Ray had outwitted many an opponent in the Olympics . |
| 9 | He spent half an hour in the restaurant , drinking coffee . |
| 10 | She was the maid at Drew 's Maidstone lodgings , who had witnessed the actor spending half an hour in the garden of the premises trying desperately to clean a navy blue jacket . |
| 11 | They did n't bleeding look it , the Well you can have half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night , that 's an hour . |
| 12 | If the Foreign Office can not agree with MI6 as to who are Britain 's enemies , the effectiveness of MI6 is at risk of being submerged by political expediency , calling into question the whole point of having such an organisation in the first place . |
| 13 | It is disappointing to read such an apologia in the magazine of one 's own institution , which professes to advance the cause of competent management , BR can hardly be counted among the best of examples . |
| 14 | She no longer took such an interest in the farm , and very sensibly appointed Gabriel Oak her farm manager . |
| 15 | The shock of hearing such an expression in the accents of Hollywood gangsterese come from Antony 's lips pulled her up sharply . |
| 16 | The Indian kids would n't matter , but the Yuppie type might get half an hour in the back of a police car checking the pavements and the pub car parks for some sign of his attacker . |
| 17 | This might be a good time to spend half an hour in the gardens , sketching shadowy clumps of trees and bushes , she decided . |
| 18 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 19 | Much was done , again , by the work of mathematicians such as Euler , Bernouilli and Borda on fluid resistance and floating bodies , to make possible an improvement in the lines of sailing-ships . |
| 20 | ‘ Incredible , is n't it , how the papers still have such an interest in the Royal family — and print so many lies . |
| 21 | It is perhaps easy to construct such an understanding in the highly exceptional and extreme circumstances of the rise of fascism . |