Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The articled clerk then advised the wife to buy a small house in an unsuitable area with a mortgage in order to obtain mortgage relief , even though she had no taxable income against which she could claim relief . |
| 2 | The duty to take reasonable care is confined to the period of 21 days after cancellation ( s72(8) ) , thereafter , he usually becomes an involuntary bailee with a duty to refrain from wilful damage . |
| 3 | There were two easels , one with an unfinished picture of a town and the other holding a painting on a large canvas , but it was not possible to see it . |
| 4 | ‘ I found an unfinished draft of a letter to an unidentified woman in a book of his . |
| 5 | These were ( 1 ) vehicle ( saline ) given by intragastric instillation or subcutaneous infusion followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 2 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 3 ) bFGF given by an intragastric route at a dose of 100 µg/kg followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 4 ) sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 5 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour and sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; and ( 6 ) intragastric bFGF ( 100 µg/ kg ) given in combination with sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen . |
| 6 | Aspirin was introduced by an intragastric route in a dose of 200 mg/kg in 250 mM HCl . |
| 7 | Wearing an open-necked shirt in a shade of blue which intensified the colour of his eyes and complemented the width of his shoulders and silver-grey trousers that moulded slim hips before encasing long , muscled legs , Rune Christensen looked like some godly visitor from Asgard — and one bent on vengeance . |
| 8 | Then you 'd put the flimsy over it and then there was a kind of a an e an absorbent kind of a rag the right size , not too wet , cos if it was too wet it would run . |
| 9 | After two days they found him , an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand . |
| 10 | The complicated organs of an advanced animal like a human or a woodlouse have evolved by gradual degrees from the simpler organs of ancestors . |
| 11 | The fourth year is concerned with an advanced treatment of a number of important topics in information systems design and implementation . |
| 12 | Discussions are at an advanced stage with a number of nationally-known retailers , and one retail DIY outlet has already confirmed that it will be renting a unit . |
| 13 | The various parties involved in the peace process had tended to ignore the issue , working on the assumption that it could only be tackled at an advanced stage of a settlement . |
| 14 | Whatever the reason , the committee decided in November 1908 to reinstate the locks , ostensibly to pass night traffic but , in the light of events , this was an undeclared anticipation of a decision to discontinue the plane . |
| 15 | It may just be an extremist minority within a minority that would take offence , but one company told PEN it would rather just take the easy way out and not have pigs . |
| 16 | Then the 40mph train made an unrehearsed diversion under a bridge and WHAM — Martin 's body slammed into the concrete parapet . |
| 17 | Any unsold bonds ( known as ‘ tap stock ’ ) will then be released on to the market in an orderly way at a price set by the Bank of England . |
| 18 | Thus , although Patterson has gellon for ‘ gallon ’ and care for ‘ car ’ , and although similar pronunciations are heard in Ulster rural dialects , our Belfast data show that the rule has receded in an orderly way through a series of environments . |
| 19 | A relatively small number of industrially advanced countries appear to have the basic technological and managerial skills required to respond to the IT challenge in an orderly fashion with a view to achieving the accompanying advantages . |
| 20 | But mixed up in this melée are four dwarves , or children dressed as cucullati , being chased by an assistant bestiarius in a loin-cloth and holding a stick ( fig. 14.11 ) . |
| 21 | An accidental glimpse in a shop window or mirror may bring us up with a jolt . |
| 22 | Sun Valley say the fire was started by what 's described as an accidental fault in a machine . |
| 23 | DVI has been progressively enhanced since then , however , and is now based on an evolved form of a technique called Discrete Cosine Transform ( DCT ) . |
| 24 | These woes are compounded by an acute form of a problem that besets most branches of computing and telecommunications — the need for a universally accepted standard . |
| 25 | In such cases , the symptoms are those of an acute urethritis with a mucoid or muco-purulent discharge . |
| 26 | In the light of our results , we believe that the best clinical approach for an acute diagnosis of a Barrett 's oesophagus is the combination of endoscopic and manometric studies ; but how accurate is it to compare distances measured by manometry from distances measured by endoscopy ? |
| 27 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 28 | This view , while erroneous , is an understandable construction of a statute that defies any simple interpretation . |
| 29 | That 's quite an understandable mistake in a moment of emotion , sir . |
| 30 | I twisted my face into an exaggerated smile like a woman at a cocktail party . |