Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a number of other areas the national perspective was maintained either by mini projects which provided a framework within which colleges could operate and develop their units , or by SCOTVEC providing advice , assistance and initial leadership ( together with on-going administrative support ) for groups of colleges in consortium — so called Nationally Led Consortia . |
| 2 | The serenos receive a small salary from the shopkeepers and private houses they keep an eye on , but it is considered proper to give them a tip each time they open a door for one . |
| 3 | To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital . |
| 4 | The dummies are dressed in worn clothes which retain a strong human scent , and some have mobile heads which give an illusion of life as they move into the wind . |
| 5 | particularly the length of time that was away I was really sure that had got on to incidentally it 's worth saying that the B B C re they do they use professional readers who make a report on every piece they receive and they file them . |
| 6 | With soil-caked fingers he drew a handkerchief from a pocket and blew his nose . |
| 7 | Delegates were divided into sixty lobbying groups which tackled a majority of members of both Lords and Commons . |
| 8 | Without proper maps he followed a route set by compass , boiling up pemmican and glucose for food and sleeping under the stars in a sleeping bag at night . |
| 9 | The problem with this definition is that it neglects other chemically and biochemically responsive sensors which lack a biolayer but which share not only similar functional principles , but offer equivalent analytical advantages . |
| 10 | He took a sandwich as casually as he could , covering the embarrassment of his capitulation by asking : ‘ What were those foreign words you said a moment ago ? ’ |
| 11 | At the foot of one of the left-hand columns he read a headline . |
| 12 | Given the amount of calls and the fact that they 're telephoned in different areas it seems a lot of trouble to go through if it was a hoax . |
| 13 | But to the Mesolithic hunter-nomads they formed a forest kingdom , a race of forest creatures , saviours , oracles , and tormentors all at the same time ; they arose in the mythogenic unconscious both to explain nature 's hostility to the people 's actions , and to express the hope of survival against the unknown . |
| 14 | In the old days it needed a team of 20 women to do the equivalent job — and even then they did it less than half as fast . |
| 15 | They include a first-class AI library and well-appointed mechanical and electronic workshops which support a range of specialised laboratories for research and teaching purposes . |
| 16 | But no amount of camp humour could banish the bitter awareness that every time he gave way to his sexual needs he became a criminal . |
| 17 | From their direct observations they absorb a model of marriage . |
| 18 | Both these developing manipulations should produce corresponding negatives with tonal ranges which have a ratio of 1:7 . |
| 19 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
| 20 | Today 's magnetic refrigerators themselves require a lot of refrigeration — they work only at temperatures below about 20K ( 20 above absolute zero ) . |
| 21 | For just as the properties of individuals are dependent on their social context , the set of social relations which constitutes a practice does not exist in isolation . |
| 22 | Similarly , Mosca develops the concept of a political class , made up of organised minorities who occupy an intermediary position between the ruling class and the majority , which is clearly a precursor both of the functional elites of Keller and Aron and of the pluralistic elites who make up Dahl 's polyarchy . |
| 23 | Some 70 trade exhibitors were persuaded to pitch their tents at three levels on steep slopes which proved a testing but rewarding exercise for visitors from as fair afield as Scotland and the West Country . |
| 24 | Some 70 trade exhibitors were persuaded to pitch their tents at three levels on steep slopes which proved a testing but rewarding exercise for visitors from as fair afield as Scotland and the West Country . |
| 25 | I hope that the reconciliation achieved by the cross will provide the basis for us all to say that we have no grounds for making fresh divisions which make a witness to a needy world more difficult than it is already . |
| 26 | Those hon. Members who take an interest in such matters will know that it is a hobby horse of mine . |
| 27 | Police are hunting two teenage youths who threatened a 14-year-old with a screwdriver near the Gateway supermarket in West Dyke Road , Redcar , on Wednesday night . |
| 28 | If respectability was undermined after the Second World War by married women refusing dependence and returning to waged work while also having children , it is being undermined again by the new wave of dole-queue mothers who find a measure of independence in motherhood . |
| 29 | Perhaps the major requirement for change on Switchboard is a combination of the overt needs of the callers , and the needs of a group of self-interested and highly-motivated volunteers who find a reason to stay in the organization . |
| 30 | To get the high temperatures he used a kiln like a glass furnace . |