Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the loyalist camp an intense controversy on strategy was in progress and was to continue through the following months . |
| 2 | It was as if , Harry reflected , Breakspear were some kind of Shangri-La , brief exposure to which ensured a stubborn youthfulness , prolonged exposure an accelerating regression to the cradle . |
| 3 | In this case an enlightened friend of mankind would save the intellectual because of his potential influence on thousands of human minds ; the chambermaid is advised to devote herself willingly to the flames ! |
| 4 | The Council , for historical reasons an influential force in German politics , would like to see the Soviet Jews welcomed in Germany . |
| 5 | Principles that have let dishonesty , greed , and a profound indifference to the plight of the poor and unemployed play an important role in their programme . |
| 6 | There was in some cases an extraordinary Englishness about Argentine railways . |
| 7 | The convention , so familiar in the Victorian novel , that ancient things themselves have histories to relate , allows to long-inhabited places and well-used objects an individual being of their own . |
| 8 | And , with luck , not long after that we will have in our very own editorial offices an electronic excuse for the mistakes that occasionally slide into these pages . |
| 9 | SQE selectability and a rugged design make this transceiver an attractive choice for your thick coax environments . |
| 10 | It makes him a hard man to place on the political spectrum , as he is in some respects an avowed admirer of Thatcher . |
| 11 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 12 | At this moment an English member of the community went mad . |
| 13 | Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy . |
| 14 | During the last few years an increasing number of schools have adopted agreed policies for handwriting . |
| 15 | During the next few days an amazing amount of evidence came to light . |
| 16 | The Hatters ' Act of 1749 , for example , made failure to return surplus material within twenty-one days an automatic instance of guilt . |
| 17 | They can not ask another person an open question along the lines of ‘ What do you think/feel about this ? ’ |
| 18 | I thought I knew already , and to give this knowledge an official seal of approval . |
| 19 | In explaining that my hon. Friend the Minister of State is not present to answer questions because he is doing duty in the Province , I give the right hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance of the commitment of the intelligence services and of their relevance in Northern Ireland today . |
| 20 | So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking . |
| 21 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 22 | The Scottish summary of what it is that parents value in teachers and what makes a poor ( as well as a good ) teacher ( SED 1989:7 — 11 ) is in some ways an up-to-date version of parts of Enquiry 1 ( Schools Council 1968 ) . |
| 23 | ( b ) Express terms negative implied terms An express term in a lease generally excludes the possibility of the implication of a term dealing with the same subject matter as the implied term . |
| 24 | He had declared this week an alcohol-free zone after a bad hangover on Sunday morning . |
| 25 | In this respect an important lesson from Allende 's experiment is that the decision to abolish private property inevitably results in the erosion of economic and political freedom also . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ . |
| 27 | In some instances an additional correction for the dilution of the drop of solution may be necessary . |
| 28 | It will affect not only squatters but also give unscrupulous landlords an easy way of geting rid of people . |
| 29 | In some departments an elaborate hierarchy of deputies enabled pluralism to spread like a weed . |
| 30 | Thank you Chairman , erm in this report an interim mistake on the |