Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course a hotel in Suceava had reported that two English tourists had failed to return . |
| 2 | In due course an Application for Planning Permission will have to be submitted to the Local Planning Authority . |
| 3 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 4 | His own understanding of the poem , however , was a quite different thing and , as he explained to Anne Ridler , there was no central meaning , since he had attempted to find a method of uniting on an emotional level a variety of elements which were otherwise quite unrelated . |
| 5 | Flipping the towel over his shoulder , he raked his fingers through his spikily tousled hair a couple of times , restoring it to rough order . |
| 6 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 7 | Held in Villa Grimaldi building , once a torture centre where many Chilean disappeared prisoners were detained under Gen. Augusto Pinochet " s 1973-90 military regime , the meeting ended on Nov. 11 with the decision to create a " network for life " throughout Latin America , aimed at the rapid denunciation of cases of disappearance whenever they occurred , and at the achievement of international legislation declaring the repressive practice a crime against humanity . |
| 8 | On the other side of the Square , attracting a much larger crowd , a fire-eater was doing his thing watched by amazed children as he threw his head back and spewed flame a couple of yards into the air . |
| 9 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , these entitlements are limited to the recipients having legal residence in Germany and the new law on foreign nationals ( Ausländergesetz 1990 ) can make the receipt of unauthorized assistance a reason for deportation ( Münder , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | Yeah , but give the old girl a bit of respect son . |
| 12 | Food : Strange appetites on the big screen : Can the British digest a film about food , sex and death , asks Deirdre McQuillan |
| 13 | To support the recessed lid a length of beading was affixed with glue and tacks around the upper inner side , one or 1½ inches from the top , dependent on the thickness of the lid . |
| 14 | In contrast , the Cleanazoom Upright behaved capriciously in all the tests , its fevered whine a symptom of impotence rather than strained efficiency . |
| 15 | Amy Wohl , doyenne of the consulting set , who calls a well-positioned product a thing of beauty and just as rare , is kicking off a series of Positioning Workshops . |
| 16 | But then United broke to the other end and won a free kick a minute into injury time . |
| 17 | Very well : I shall trade the hon. Gentleman a point of order for a speech . |
| 18 | After a series of goldfish bowls and acid jars at 10 years old I received my first proper aquarium a 30″ × 12″ × 12″ steel frame tank for my birthday . |
| 19 | Make old age a time of opportunity . |
| 20 | and he was away April he would always have a half-made coffin a sort of standard sized one |
| 21 | In high season a variety of specialist restaurants are available ( opened at the managements ' discretion ) at no extra charge but do require a reservation . |
| 22 | For those in the middle of these events , there was in addition to the tension and the menace , a certain air of unreality ; this raises the part played by drugs , not merely in the emergence of a forceful counter-culture , but in the attitudes of plain straightforward young people to whom any kind of illicit substance a couple of years earlier would have been a complete mystery . |
| 23 | Embarrassed by his lack of courage , he wandered forlornly about the town , finding in an old church a copy of Titian 's ‘ Burial of Christ ’ that might have been done by Breton . |
| 24 | In many countries this still gives the foreign investor a position of significance . |
| 25 | To illustrate this with an example , on the objectual interpretation " ( Ex ) x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance is Hades ' is false , because there is no such entity ; but on the substitutional interpretation a replacement of x in " x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades " with " Cerberus " yields a true proposition ; which , if we are talking about Greek mythology , is of course as it should be . |
| 26 | In March 1991 , the Regional Council 's Planning and Development Committee cleared for public consultation a range of Discussion Papers which would help to describe the issues and establish an agenda for consultation . |
| 27 | The University has been allocated from the European Social Fund a number of training grants tenable on the following full-time postgraduate courses : |
| 28 | Verity made a sort of wriggling motion a couple of times , straining back against her seat . |
| 29 | In seeking to understand this aspect of social change and social integration a number of possibilities exist . |
| 30 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |