Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission 's proposal was due for debate at a plenary session of the European Parliament on the 20 November . |
| 2 | Indeed , the attendance allowance system has made it possible for councillors from a broader social range to serve on local authorities but this is far removed from receiving a salary . |
| 3 | the historical biography of the relationship between carer and cared for : how far was it possible for people with a long history on one particular level to relate to each other on a level of physical intimacy , faced with the disgust that caring often demands . |
| 4 | Yet the third type of research I described , the quick investigation , is possible as part of a regular monitoring of clients ' situations and the quality of services . |
| 5 | Similar grisly film delights , unsuitable for persons of a nervous , or even reasonably cheerful , disposition followed — some made by Hayling and his Newsreel collective . |
| 6 | SO Sarah Ferguson is deemed unsuitable for life as a Royal it seems to me many of the ‘ real ’ Royals are equally unsuitable . |
| 7 | From 1987 to 1992 , with an increasing sense of despair , people looked to Labour for leadership on a wide variety of issues . |
| 8 | Cheris Krarnarae suggests that women are more attuned to the dynamics of male conversation than vice versa , since subordinates are dependent for survival on a good grasp of their superordinates ' behaviour . |
| 9 | They have become part of a stinging indictment of the way the South African police , blase about murder in a brutal society , have been handling this investigation . |
| 10 | In addition to the securities scandal , the Japanese financial establishment was embarrassed during July by a separate scandal involving the Marubeni Corporation , and bank scandals including a huge illegal loans scheme at the Fuji bank . |
| 11 | In 1988 this was recognised by Swiss Federal Railways promotion of a stretch of former " Gotthard Road " between Fluelen and Goschenen as one suitably traffic-free for use by those who seek to combine touring and sightseeing with cycling , which in Switzerland has become popular as part of a current " fitness ' movement . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it is pertinent to observe that while academic studies at college and polytechnics are presented as being important because they enrich the student , the subjects which are acceptable for entry to a primary PGCE course are clearly defined . |
| 13 | Patients in their 80s now constitute 3.5% of those undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting at the Mayo Clinic ; 79% of 115 survivors were free of angina after a mean period of 29 months . |
| 14 | If you are going to apply nail polish , first swab each nail free of grease with a little remover on cotton wool . |
| 15 | Italy : Since October 1991 it has been compulsory for employers/appropriate authorities to offer hepatitis B vaccine free of charge to a wide range of occupational groups including : police officers , fire fighters |
| 16 | For any chartered accountant interested in the package , Aldercare is offering the package free of charge for a 30-day trial . |
| 17 | They were told that if they could supply soap , toothpaste , toothbrushes , disposable razors , disinfectant , cotton sheets and pillow-cases and adult shorts and T-shirts , such items could be shipped to Honduras free of charge on a returning banana boat . |
| 18 | Most shops will deliver gifts free of charge within a certain radius . |
| 19 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 20 | Those things are important enough in themselves , but they are also expressive of inequalities at a deeper level . |
| 21 | I am always struck by Pollini 's extraordinary ability to integrate even the most fearless of contrasts into a convincing whole . |
| 22 | Overnight cultures of E coli on nutrient agar slopes were gently resuspended in phosphate buffered saline with D-mannose to a standard turbidity ( MacFarland 's no 9 ) . |
| 23 | Andrée appeared to have padded most of her edges ; she was being considerate , intelligent , serious , talking like an elder person generous with knowledge to a younger one , and Flavia ceased to feel an absurd adolescent and a target . |
| 24 | ( The city of Oxford in 1546 negotiated with Stumpe for a similar use of Osney Abbey , hoping to provide work for 2,000 people , but nothing came of this project . ) |
| 25 | The remote spot they chose was a riverside picnic area in the Alberta park 's Tonquin Valley — popular with ski-ers after a heavy snowfall . |
| 26 | The announcment comes on the day of a clear up operation at a public park which was invaded by a group of gyspies . |
| 27 | It does of course raise serious questions about reductionism ( Peacocke 1985 ) , although it is worth noting that reductionism between levels ( e.g. from the social to the biological or from the biological to the biochemical ) is different from reductionism within a given level ( e.g. the psychological as against the sociological , or the sociological as against the economic ) , which is a matter of perspective or aspect rather than level in Comte 's terms . |
| 28 | A mouse without its cortex is not strikingly different in behaviour from a normal mouse : a man with no cortex is a vegetable . |
| 29 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 30 | Cardiovascular death rates were high in men with a high ratio of placental weight to birth weight . |